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Transforming the decorative into dissent

Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.

  • Photo story

From chef’s whites to medical scrubs

Meet the machinists who have rapidly switched from making clothing for hospitality staff to uniforms for hospital workers.

  • Long read

Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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The problem of the punctured heart

During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.

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  • C. Stromayr: Sewing wound after herniotomy. 1559
  • Labour Yard in Bethnel Green. Also Sewing-class.
  • Women personified as angels are accompanied by the equipment of sewing in an advertisement for Singer sewing machines. Colour lithograph.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a nurse sewing an embroidered cloth. Photograph, 1921.
  • Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • A woman is sitting sewing a piece of ribbon onto lace. Coloured lithograph.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, one sewing, one using a typewriter. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, one sewing, one using a typewriter. Photograph, c. 1927.
  • A domestic scene: a man reading a large book, one woman tending a child and another sewing. Mezzotint.
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