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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Pain and the power of touch
As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.
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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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An anatomy of melancholy.
Date: 2000- Books
Anatomy of the heart, cranium, and brain : adapted to the purposes of the medical and surgical practitioner; to which is added, in notes, observations on the laws of life and sensation / by Alexander Ramsay.
Ramsay, Alexander, 1754?-1824.Date: 1813- Books
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On the study of the hand for indications of local and general disease / by Edward Blake.
Date: [1898]- Books
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Die Hand und der Fuss. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Osteologie der Menschen, Affen und Beutelthiere / von Joh. Christian Gustav Lucae.
Lucae Johann Christian Gustav, 1814-1885.Date: 1865- Books
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The hand : its mechanism and vital endowments, as evincing design / by Sir Charles Bell.
Date: 1852