Stories
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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
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The higher education and employment of the blind / by John P. Coldstream.
Date: 1879- Books
The health of doctors : physician heal thyself--but how? / Clive Richards.
Richards, Clive (Clive W.)Date: [1989]- Books
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Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893. / prepared for the Volta bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay.
Date: 1893- Books
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Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 / prepared for the Volta Bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay.
Date: 1893- Books
Medical mishaps : pieces of the puzzle / edited by Marilynn M. Rosenthal, Linda Mulcahy, Sally Lloyd-Bostock.
Date: 1999