Stories
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Superstition, contagion and medical rumour
The great generator of confusion, rumours have not spared human health from their chaos. Find out how whispers, gossip and rumours have caused medical mishaps through the ages.
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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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Medical imaging: normal CT scan
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Medical imaging and philosophy : challenges, reflections, and actions : conference proceedings / edited by Heiner Fangerau [and others].
Date: [2012], ©2012- Books
Medical physics : imaging / Jean Pope.
Pope, Jean A.Date: 1999- Books
Origins and development of medical imaging / T. Doby, G. Alker.
Doby, T. (Tibor)Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
Medical visions : producing the patient through film, television, and imaging technologies / Kirsten Ostherr.
Ostherr, Kirsten, 1970-Date: [2013], ©2013