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“Disability is never an individual diagnosis”

As a 35-year-old man, I am sure that my fear of getting old is not uncommon. But for me, that fear goes deeper. I have spina bifida.

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  • Osteoblast montage
  • A cross with pink hearts within a montage
  • Montage of photographs in connection with the Bubonic plague
  • OCT montage showing cross-section of a human eye.
  • A montage of portraits of nine Scots physicians, with their signatures underneath. Photoprint.
  • The Hospital for diseases of the chest, City Road: a montage of four views. Wood engraving by J. R. Brown.
  • A series of 16 montage images depicting a variety of people and animals overlaid on photographic and painted scenes representing an advertisement for the AIDS Linien, an AIDS helpline in Copenhagen, Denmark. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995.
  • Die electrische Medicin oder die Kraft und Wirkung der Electricität in dem menschlichen Körper und dessen Krankheiten besonders bey gelähmten Gliedern / [Johann Gottlieb Schäffer].
  • Die Armpolypen in den süssen Wassern um Regensburg / Entdecket und beschrieben von Jacob Christian Schäffer ... Nebst drey Kupfertafeln mit ausgemahlten Abbildungen.
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