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When wounds replace words

For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.

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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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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty

Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?

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Duelling doctors

An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.

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  • The hand of a factory worker clutching his foot because he has knocked it against a heavy cogwheel lying on the ground. Colour lithograph after Arthur G. Mills.
  • A man who has lost use of his limbs by taking a risk. Colour lithograph by R..l (?), 1929.
  • A peasant without shoes removing a thorn (?) from his foot, a dog accompanies him. Etching by J. Miel.
  • A boy cries in pain in his mother's arms while she tries to wash his cut foot, another child holds a broken glass in the background. Coloured lithograph.
  • Venus visits Aesculapius to ask him to remove a thorn from her foot. Collotype after Sir E.J. Poynter, ca. 1880.
  • A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • The Spinario: an athlete examining his damaged foot. Line engraving by F. Piranesi after L. Corazzari.
  • A boy cries in pain in his mother's arms while she tries to wash his cut foot, another child holds a broken glass in the background. Coloured line engraving by E. Smith after C. Chisholme.
  • Venus pulling a thorn from her foot in beautiful countryside. Engraving by P. Audouin, after P. Bouillon after Raphael.
  • A satyr wearing eyeglasses, with young assistant, removes a thorn from the foot of a male faun who leans against female companion. Engraving by G. Piccini after J. Muller after B. Spranger.
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