Stories
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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The wishing-tree of Loch Maree
So many pilgrims have visited a tiny loch island in Scotland that the site of their devotions, a fragile and crumbling tree, has collapsed under the ministrations of thousands of hands leaving thanks for its rumoured health-bestowing powers.
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Silent threat
As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.
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To write in golden photographs
When Rachel Genn’s brother disappeared, a newspaper article led the family to his bedside. But the accident he’d barely survived was not to be the last tragedy in his life.
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Crutches and orthopaedic boots.
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Physiotherapist with patient in plaster jacket and head, crutches and calliper, at Institute of Orthopaedics
Date: c.1965Reference: SA/CSP/Q.1/251Part of: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy- Archives and manuscripts
Physiotherapist with patient in plaster jacket and head, crutches and calliper, at Institute of Orthopaedics
Date: c.1965Reference: SA/CSP/Q.1/250Part of: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy- Archives and manuscripts
Physiotherapist with patient in plaster jacket and head, crutches and calliper, at Institute of Orthopaedics
Date: c.1965Reference: SA/CSP/Q.1/249Part of: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy- Pictures
A deformed man with crutches. Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1872.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Date: 24 Novembre 1872Reference: 657963i