Stories
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
- Article
Finding my body through the wilderness
Writer Jennifer Neal used vigorous exercise classes to try and heal herself in the years following an assault. But it was only while hiking outdoors that she found true strength.
- Article
Lindsey Fitzharris’s prescription for writing
The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘The Butchering Art’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.
- Book extract
Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
Catalogue
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- Online
Joints of the human body: annotated illustrations, with proportions marked. Pen and ink, probably copied from a printed book, 1830/1850.
Date: 1830-1850Reference: 564564i- Archives and manuscripts
Notebook "Joints"
Date: c. 1930Reference: PP/KJN/B.1/2Part of: Kathleen Mary ("Kay") Jackson (b.1907), physiotherapist- Archives and manuscripts
Rheumatoid Arthritis of the Crico-Arytenoid Joints
Date: 1957-1963Reference: SA/HEB/E/1/12Part of: Heberden Collection- Books
Apollonius and Galen on "Joints" / Paul Potter.
Potter, Paul, 1944-Date: 1993- Archives and manuscripts
R Lawford Knaggs Report on the Strangeways Collection of Rheumatoid Joints in the Museum of the RCS
Date: 20th centuryReference: PP/FGS/C/48Part of: Spear, Frederick Gordon