Stories
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
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Finding my body through the wilderness
Writer Jennifer Neal used vigorous exercise classes to try and heal herself in the years following an assault. But it was only while hiking outdoors that she found true strength.
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On body horror and growing up strange
A young child’s unusual feelings, reactions and assertions are routinely dismissed by adults. Find out how manga horror stories became a source of strength, and helped them trust their adult body.
Catalogue
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Human head sculpted in clay, forming the eye sockets
Heather Spears, photography ICandy- Pictures
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Head of an old man with a bandage laced through his hollow eye-sockets. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776.
Bossi, Benigno, 1727-1792.Date: 1776Reference: 28325iPart of: Fisonomie possibili- Pictures
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The malaria mosquito forming the eye-sockets of a skull, representing death from malaria. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
Games, Abram, 1914-1996.Date: [1941]Reference: 20276i- Books
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Cases of disease in the orbit / by Henry D. Noyes.
Noyes, Henry D. (Henry Drury), 1832?-1900.Date: 1875- Books
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Valentin on the functions of the nerves of the orbit / translated from the Latin by John F. France.
Valentin, G. (Gabriel), 1810-1883.Date: [1846]