Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
- Books
Manual of the international statistical classification of diseases, injuries, and causes of death / World Health Organization.
World Health Organization.Date: 1948- Books
Manual of the international statistical classification of diseases, injuries, and causes of death. Addendum 1, Supplementary interpretations and instructions for coding causes of death.
World Health Organization.Date: 1953- Books
Manual of the international statistical classification of diseases, injuries, and causes of death : based on the recommendations of the Ninth Revision Conference, 1975, and adopted by the Twenty-ninth World Health Assembly.
World Health Organization.Date: 1977-1978- Books
Manual of the international statistical classification of diseases, injuries, and causes of death : based on the recommendations of the Eighth Revision Conference, 1965, and adopted by the Nineteenth World Health Assembly.
World Health Organization.Date: 1967-1969- Books
Manual of the international statistical classification of diseases, injuries, and causes of death : based on the recommendations of the Seventh Revision Conference, 1955, and adapted by the Ninth World Health Assembly under the WHO nomenclature regulations.
World Health Organization.Date: 1957