Stories
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about 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 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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Is fake news killing fictive art?
Parafictional artists create projects where the imaginary interacts with real life. But the growth of so-called ‘fake news’ is providing a new challenge.
Catalogue
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Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 1.
Date: c.1932- Film
Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 1.
Date: c.1932- Videos
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Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 1.
Date: c.1932- Books
Die Knochenbrüche - Wege zur modernen Behandlung : das Tier im Dienste des medizinischen Fortschrittes / Ulrich Tröhler, Andreas-Holger Maehle.
Tröhler, Ulrich, 1943-Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
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An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Bath and Bristol District Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, June 29th, 1854 / by John Smith Soden.
Soden, John Smith, 1780-1863.Date: 1854