Stories
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We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies
Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.
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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me
Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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When depression is worse than physical illness
Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.
Catalogue
- Books
Chronic disease in the twentieth century : a history / George Weisz.
Weisz, GeorgeDate: 2014- Books
Studies on the physiology and pathology of the blood : investigations, the expense of which has been met in part by the Proctor Fund for the Study of Chronic Disease / from the Harvard Medical School and allied hospitals.
Date: 1919-1922- Books
A chronic disease unit in a general hospital : analysis of six years' operating experience / David Littauer, Franz U. Steinberg, David A. Gee.
Littauer, David, 1906-Date: 1963- Books
A survey of chronic rheumatic diseases / contributed by contemporary authorities in commemoration of the bicentenary of the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, 1738-1938 ; compiled under the direction of the following editorial committee : R.G. Gordon [and others].
Date: 1938- Books
The diagnosis of chronic diarrhoeas / by E.T.C. Milligan.
Milligan, E. T. C.Date: 1935