Stories
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Sex work and critical campaigners
When campaigners filmed secretly in the club where she worked, exotic dancer Ella Smith felt frightened and degraded. Here she speaks out about the attack on her livelihood.
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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
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How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
Catalogue
- Books
Historical aspects of critical illness and critical care medicine / guest editors Anand Kumar, Joseph E. Parrillo.
Date: 2009- Books
Critical care nursing : a history / Julie Fairman and Joan E. Lynaugh.
Fairman, Julie.Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
Caring in crisis : an oral history of critical care nursing / Jacqueline Zalumas.
Zalumas, Jacqueline.Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
Metabolic living : food, fat, and the absorption of illness in India / Harris Solomon.
Solomon, Harris, 1979-Date: 2016- Books
Crime, punishment, and mental illness : law and the behavioral sciences in conflict / Patricia E. Erickson, Steven K. Erickson.
Erickson, Patricia E., 1947-Date: [2008], ©2008