Stories
- Article
Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
- Article
Adapting to life as a thalidomide survivor
Growing up as a thalidomide survivor meant coping with all the usual challenges of childhood and adolescence, while having to fit into a world designed for the able-bodied.
- Book extract
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.
- Article
Thalidomide, a bitter pill
Hear from some of the women who took the drug thalidomide over sixty years ago about the fear, isolation and grief that they experienced as the appalling pharmaceutical scandal unfolded around them.
Catalogue
- Film
Amputations and artificial limbs.
Date: 1942 or [1950?]- Videos
- Online
Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 5.
Date: c.1932- Videos
Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 5.
Date: c.1932- Film
Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 5.
Date: c.1932- Videos
- Online
Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 2, Compound fractures.
Date: c.1932