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Lindsey Fitzharris’s prescription for writing

The Wellcome Book Prize shortlisted author of ‘The Butchering Art’ answers five questions on health, inspiration and storytelling.

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When wounds replace words

For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.

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Doris Day blows against

Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.

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  • Dissection of a dislocated shoulder joint
  • Lieutenant H. von K. with resected shoulder-joint
  • Pl. XII. Operation at the shoulder joint to amputate the arm.
  • Excision of the shoulder joint (?) Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • A surgeon and two assistants manipulating a dislocated shoulder joint back into the correct position. Etching by T. Jefferys.
  • A surgeon and two assistants manipulating a dislocated shoulder joint back into the correct position. Etching by T. Jefferys.
  • The bones of a shoulder joint and ribs, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • Bones of the arm: figures showing the shoulder joint, the radius and ulna and the humerus. Watercolour and pencil drawing, by J.C. Whishaw, 1854.
  • Chronic rheumatic arthritis. Post-mortem appearance of the shoulder-joint of a patient, who had been totally disabled by the condition of his joints. The elevation of the humerus is particularly referred to.
  • Shoulder joint, larynx, peritoneum (?) and a reclining écorché supported by the left elbow and the outstreched right hand, seen from the front. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Sons, partly after W. Cowper, 1813.
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