Stories
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Autism assessments and me
When, as an adult, Mayanne Soret decided to get a formal diagnosis of her autism, she found that the series of assessments had a dishearteningly negative focus, seeming to frame her as a problem.
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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels
In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.
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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
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Love, grief and assisted dying
In this deeply affecting story, Michelle Elliot explores the events and emotions around the time of her mother’s medically assisted death in Canada, where the practice is legal.
Catalogue
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Laboratory diagnostic procedures in the rheumatic diseases / edited by Alan S. Cohen ; foreword by Charles A. Ragan.
Date: 1967- Books
Arsenal du diagnostic médical : recherches sur les thermomètres, les balances, les instruments d'exploration des organes respiratoires, de l'appareil cardio-vasculaire, du système nerveux, les spéculums uteri et les laryngoscopes / par Maurice Jeannel.
Jeannel, Maurice.Date: 1873- Books
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Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request : to which are added, tables of symptoms / by Alex. P. Buchan.
Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.Date: 1824- Books
Methods of diagnosis / by Logan Clendening and Edward H. Hashinger.
Clendening, Logan, 1884-1945.Date: 1947- Books
Clinical examination : a textbook for students and doctors by teachers of the Edinburgh Medical School / editor John Macleod ; foreword by Sir Stanley Davidson.
Date: 1973