Stories
- Article
How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
- Article
How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
- Article
The sum of my parts
Testing positive for a rogue gene meant Jessica Furseth was more susceptible to cancer. After the years of anger and dissociation from her body that followed, she began to pick up the pieces.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Chapter 9 sections 3 and 5: Sweating Sickness and Smallpox
Date: c. 1929Reference: MS.8242Part of: Fraser-Harris, David Fraser (1867-1937)- Archives and manuscripts
Chapter 9, section 6: Certain Epidemic Diseases in Wales other than Plague, Leprosy, the Sweating Sickness and Smallpox
Date: c. 1929Reference: MS.8244Part of: Fraser-Harris, David Fraser (1867-1937)- Books
Sweating sickness in modern times (sudor anglicus, sueur de Picardie, suette miliare) / by Michael G. Foster.
Foster, Michael G.Date: 1919- Books
The beginning, name, nature, and signs of the sweating sickness / by John Caius.
Caius, John, 1510-1573.Date: 1963- Books
- Online
The sweating sickness in England / by Francis C. Webb.
Webb, Francis Cornelius.Date: 1857