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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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What is violence?

Criminologist Laura Bui explores her early understanding of violence and outlines its definition and wider consequences.

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The problem of the punctured heart

During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.

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Ways appear

While his sense of body shame meant the personal side of his life was unfulfilled, Chris’s career was rewarding. His own childhood experiences gave him profound empathy for the children he worked with.

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  • Two examples of mouth deformities: cleft lip. Drawing.
  • A man with deformities of the lower abdomen. Lithograph by W. Strachan.
  • Head of an infant showing peculiar congenital deformities of the ear and eye
  • Examples of foot deformities: skeletal detail, numbered for key. Lithograph by Batelli after Ferdinando Ferrari, c. 1843.
  • Examples of bone deformities: skeletal detail, numbered for key. Lithograph by Salucci after Ottavio Muzzi, c. 1843.
  • Surgery and deformities of the prepuce and the urethra of a man. Coloured lithograph by J. Maclise, 1851.
  • Engraved emblem of Hercules choosing between Virtue and Vice, Vice taking off a mask and showing the deformities of syphilis.
  • Spinal deformities cured and prevented; to which is subjoined a treatise on fencing, and on body exercises / [Peter Gustavus Hamon].
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle, joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle, joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
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