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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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The problem of the punctured heart
During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.
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A boy with deep scars on his forehead as a result of surgery, in an attempt to cure epilepsy and headaches, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea). Halftone.
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A direct method of ordering and curing people of that loathsome disease, the small-pox. ... As also how to prevent the usual deformity of marks and scars / [John Lamport].
Lamport, John.Date: 1685- Books
A direct method of ordering and curing people of that loathsome disease, the small-pox. ... As also how to prevent the usual deformity of marks and scars / [John Lamport].
Lamport, JohnDate: 1685- Books
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Social Histories of Disability and Deformity.
Turner, David M.Date: 2006- Audio
Disability : a new history. Beauty and deformity. 4/10.
Date: 2013