Stories
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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
Catalogue
- Books
Somniale Danielis : an edition of a Medieval Latin dream interpretation handbook / Lawrence T. Martin.
Date: [1981], ©1981- Books
Civic and medical worlds in early modern England : performing barbery and surgery / Eleanor Decamp.
Decamp, Eleanor Sian, 1984-Date: [2016]- Archives and manuscripts
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Collection of medical tracts in verse and prose, mostly in Middle English (Leech-Books, III)
Date: Early 15th century - late 16th centuryReference: MS.406- Books
Eighteenth-century British erotica / general editors, Alexander Pettit and Patrick Spedding.
Date: 2002- Archives and manuscripts
Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Sidrach, De la vertu des pierres précieuses et des herbes
Date: Early 14th centuryReference: MS.457