Stories
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
- Article
The wishing-tree of Loch Maree
So many pilgrims have visited a tiny loch island in Scotland that the site of their devotions, a fragile and crumbling tree, has collapsed under the ministrations of thousands of hands leaving thanks for its rumoured health-bestowing powers.
- 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.
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Thalidomide survivors in the 21st century
As thalidomide survivors enter their 60s, they look back on their lives and the legacy of the thalidomide catastrophe.
Catalogue
- Videos
Leg operation.
Date: 1933- Film
Leg operation.
Date: 1933- Digital Images
- Online
Leg with erythema marginatum
Mark, Leonard Portal- Archives and manuscripts
Leg wound make up
Date: c.1960sReference: SA/CAS/C/3/2/25Part of: Casualties Union- Digital Images
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Leg from a patient suffering from scurvy
Delamotte, William Alfred