Stories
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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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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty
Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
Catalogue
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Arterial injuries : early diagnosis and treatment / by the Vascular Injuries Sub-Committee of the M.R.C. War Wounds Committee.
Date: 1944- Books
The after treatment of wounds and injuries / by R.C. Elmslie.
Elmslie, R. C. (Reginald Cheyne), 1878-Date: 1919- Books
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An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines: illustrating the treatment of penetrating wounds, and strangulated hernia / By Benjamin Travers.
Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858.Date: 1812- Books
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An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines : illustrating the treatment of penetrating wounds and strangulated hernia / by Benjamin Travers.
Date: 1812- Books
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Remote consequences of injuries of nerves, and their treatment : an examination of the present condition of wounds received 1863-65, with additional illustrative cases / by John K. Mitchell.
Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley), 1859-1917.Date: 1895