Stories
- Long read
Love, grief and assisted dying
In this deeply affecting story, Michelle Elliot explores the events and emotions around the time of her mother’s medically assisted death in Canada, where the practice is legal.
- Article
How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
- Article
Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
Catalogue
- Student dissertations
Love-sickness in tbe Seventeenth Century / Sally-Anne Phillips.
Phillips, Sally-Anne.Date: 1998- Books
Mediaeval medicine and Arcite's love sickness / M. Ciavolella.
Ciavolella, M.Date: 1979- Pictures
A woman in bed about to be cupped by a surgeon for love-sickness. Gouache, ca. 1700.
Date: 1700Reference: 2818721i- Pictures
A young woman is brought to visit a sick young man in the hope that her love will cure him; relatives and attendants are present. Coloured lithograph by Lafosse after P.-E. Destouches, ca. 1850/1879.
Destouches, Paul-Emile, 1794-1874.Date: 1850-1879Reference: 563331i- Books
10 zine / a Sick Love publication.
Sick Love ZineDate: 2021