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How hospital care fails disabled bodies

Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.

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A history of art in hospitals

Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.

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Why some patients make my heart sink

Instead of getting nowhere with certain demanding, manipulative patients, our anonymous GP wonders if there’s a way to help them.

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A reflection on art in a mental hospital

Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.

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  • Interior with patients. Devonshire Hospital...
  • Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet: patients. Photographs, 1890-1910.
  • Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet: patients. Photographs, 1890-1910.
  • Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet: patients. Photographs, 1890-1910.
  • Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet: patients. Photographs, 1890-1910.
  • Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: patients in the out-patients' department. Photograph, 1921.
  • Middlesex Hospital: patients lying on floor after operation.
  • Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa: hospital ward with male patients. Photograph, c. 1905.
  • British Red Cross Hospital, Turin: hospital ward with male patients. Photograph, c. 1918.
  • Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa: hospital ward with patients and nurses. Photograph, c. 1905.
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