Stories
- Article
Belonging, babies and self-belief
As a first-time mother living abroad, it seemed too exhausting to truly connect with new acquaintances. Instead, Tanya Perdikou began to make a kind of peace with herself.
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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
The self-medication decision tree : assessment to enable safe patient self-medication of insulin whilst in hospital / NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
Date: [2009]- Books
Self-medication : the proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Care, held at the Royal College of Physicians, London, on 8th and 9th January, 1979 / edited by J.A.D. Anderson.
Workshop on Self-Care (1979 : Royal College of Physicians of London)Date: 1979- Books
Everyday healthcare : highlights of a consumer study of self-medication in Great Britain / prepared by the Proprietary Association of Great Britain.
Date: 1987- Pictures
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A doctor visiting a patient who insists on self medication; representing Lord Rosebery's chairmanship of a committee advocating reform in the House of Lords. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1907.
Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910.Date: 1907Reference: 15357i- Digital Images
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C14 Chinese medication chart: Asthma etc.