Stories
- Article
Why even plastic surgery can’t hide you from facial recognition
Once upon a time, plastic surgery allowed a few notorious criminals to evade the law. But today, sophisticated facial-recognition technology has turned dreams of anonymity to dust.
- Article
The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
- Article
The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
- Long read
Love, grief and assisted dying
In this deeply affecting story, Michelle Elliot explores the events and emotions around the time of her mother’s medically assisted death in Canada, where the practice is legal.
Catalogue
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The International and comparative law quarterly
Date: 1952-- Pictures
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A dentist in his surgery with patient at Camp Douglas. Pen drawing by C.W. Law, 1862.
Law, C.W., active 1862.Date: 1862Reference: 16734i- Archives and manuscripts
Transform : briefings and publications
Date: November 2002Reference: PP/IDD/A/10/32Part of: Iddon, Brian- Archives and manuscripts
Register of Directors
Cooper McDougall & Robertson Limited: Cooper McDougall & Robertson (Scotland) Limited, 1925-?Date: 5 May 1930 - Oct 1961Reference: WF/C/S/05/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
The legal, medical and cultural regulation of the body : transformation and transgression / edited by Stephen W. Smith, Ronan Deazley.
Date: [2009], ©2009