Stories
- Article
Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor
Growing up as a thalidomide survivor meant coping with all the usual challenges of childhood and adolescence, while having to fit into a world designed for the able-bodied.
- Article
Thalidomide survivors in the 21st century
As thalidomide survivors enter their 60s, they look back on their lives and the legacy of the thalidomide catastrophe.
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
Catalogue
- Pictures
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Prostheses: artificial noses being made by an artist at work in his studio in Hampstead, London. Photograph, ca. 1921.
Date: 1921Reference: 578075i- Pictures
- Online
Prostheses: two men with artificial limbs demonstrating their comparative agility by climbing gymnasium bars at St. Thomas' Hospital, London: the man on the left wears a new type of prosthesis. Photograph, ca. 1920.
Date: 1920Reference: 578100i- Archives and manuscripts
LmyIym: Breasts - Prostheses
Date: 1981-1998Reference: SA/WHL/15/8Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Film
Implants and prostheses.
Date: 1956- Film
Thru hip prostheses : Roehampton walking school.
Date: 1990s?