Stories
- Article
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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Rejecting shame and a decade of change
Jess Thom spent years trying to ignore and suppress the tics of Tourette’s syndrome. Read what happened when she decided to celebrate them instead.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
Catalogue
- Books
Face it : facial disfigurement and my fight for face equality / James Partridge.
Partridge, JamesDate: 2020- Books
Changes Faces is about enabling everyone to face disfigurement with confidence / Changing Faces.
Changing Faces (Organisation)Date: [2007]- Books
"The way we look" : an exhibition of images by world famous photographers in aid of the Phoenix Appeal.
Date: 1992- Books
Living with disfigurement in early medieval Europe / Patricia Skinner.
Skinner, Patricia, 1965-Date: [2017]- Books
Portraits of violence : war and the aesthetics of disfigurement / Suzannah Biernoff.
Biernoff, SuzannahDate: [2017]