Stories
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Autistic togetherness during lockdown
While lockdown has presented autistic people with greater challenges than life pre-COVID, many have found strength and comfort in the situation. Autistic writer and performer Kate Fox explains how.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
Catalogue
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The Peckham house for invalids : issue 1 / Howard Hardiman, Sarah Gordon, Julia Scheele.
Hardiman, Howard.Date: 2011- Books
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Cripple punk mag : accessibility in local music. [Issue 2].
Date: 2022- Books
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Specification of John Henry Lock : bed tables for invalids, &c.
Lock, John Henry.Date: 1872- Books
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Specification of Alfred Pocock : drinking vessel for invalids.
Pocock, Alfred.Date: 1870- Books
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Specification of John Walter Cawley Wren : beds for invalids.
Wren, John Walter Cawley.Date: 1855