Stories
- Article
Trust me, I’m a patient
Artist Rachel Rowan Olive is an expert in the way her mental health condition affects her. Here she explains how it helps if doctors understand that.
- Article
How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
- Article
How my wheelchair changed my life
A young woman diagnosed with a disabling condition found her world shrank without the mobility aids she needed to get outside. Finally facing the stigma around using a wheelchair transformed her everyday life.
- Article
Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Early nineteenth century papers relating to unidentified patients
Date: c.1800 - 1835Reference: RET/6/19/2/2/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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Papers relating to Thomas Broadbent Bland
Date: Early 19th centuryReference: RET/6/19/1/24Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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William Bartholomew - Theme on Punch - Pandemonium
Date: c.1875Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/23Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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William Bartholomew - Cake Month - ain't it ridik'lus?
Date: 1861Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/17Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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Unknown - The British Balloon
Date: c.1880Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/103Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital