Stories
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Photographs as evidence of gender identity and sexuality
Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality.
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The Transvengers as foe of the paradigm of heteronormativity
Jason Barker writes about his experience of working with a group of young trans people and describes the process of developing the theory which underlies The Transvengers comic, and society, today.
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
Catalogue
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INSTITUTIONS: Medical staff of Gibraltar
Army Medical Services Museum, Keogh Barracks- Books
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Institutions of medicine.
Cullen, William, 1710-1790.Date: 1785- Digital Images
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Institutions: St. Bartholomew's
- Archives and manuscripts
Institutions, societies and associations
Date: 1914-1922Reference: WA/BSR/BA/IsaPart of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Archives and manuscripts
Institutions, Organisation, Associations, etc
Date: 1964-1997Reference: PP/RYC/CPart of: Rycroft, Dr Charles (1914-1998)