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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.

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From chef’s whites to medical scrubs

Meet the machinists who have rapidly switched from making clothing for hospitality staff to uniforms for hospital workers.

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Battling the heteronormativity of sexual health

As a queer, Black women, Mary W is sick of the never-ending hetero-cycle of clinic appointments, where her needs and sexuality are always a surprise to the doctor. She calls for a revolution.

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The secret sting of cystitis

Agnes Arnold-Forster recounts her experiences of cystitis, explaining how this illness intersects with sexism, shame, and stigma from medical professionals.

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  • George Purdey Field, Dean of St Mary's Hospital Medical School from 1883-1889
  • Members of St. Mary's medical school performing a play, 1905
  • Mary Putnam Jacobi, M.D., a pathfinder in medicine : with selections from her writings and a complete bibliography / edited by the Women's Medical Association of New York City.
  • The work of medical women in India / by Margaret I. Balfour ... and Ruth Young ... with a foreword by Dame Mary Scharlieb.
  • London Missionary School of Medicine: women's medical ward or Quin ward. Photograph.
  • A patient at home. Oil painting by D. Mary Barber, ca. 1953.
  • The temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus: the portico. Watercolour by G.M. Goring, 1911, after A. Defrasse.
  • The London and provincial medical directory.
  • A. Waller, Introductory address on the elect
  • A. Waller, Introductory address on the elect
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