Stories
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Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming
Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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The trouble with too many things
Hoarding is a slippery subject – difficult to define or diagnose. As she tries to explain the intensity of her grandma’s collecting, Georgie Evans finds the words and tools at her disposal aren’t all that helpful.
Catalogue
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When someone you love has dementia / Susan Elliot-Wright.
Elliot Wright, SusanDate: 2010- Books
Music remembers me : connection and wellbeing in dementia / Kirsty Beilharz.
Beilharz, Kirsty, 1971-Date: 2017- Pictures
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A man diagnosed as suffering from acute dementia. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1836/1841, for Sir Alexander Morison.
Johnston, Alexander, 1815-1891.Date: [1892]Reference: 38641i- Books
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The Armstrong case / by Theo. W. Fisher.
Fisher, Theodore W. (Theodore Willis), 1837-1914.Date: 1886- Videos
Mum, dad, Alzheimer's and me.
Date: 2009