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For Micha Frazer-Carroll, mental health conditions and disabilities are an undeniable part of her Caribbean family’s shared history – but many of her relatives choose not to see, name or diagnose ...
Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from ...
My eldest turned four during the Covid pandemic and, like many parents, we muddled through home-schooling. The most powerful memory of Reception year at home was a sense that we’d caged an animal, as ...
Since the heyday of eugenics in the early 20th century, governments and the medical establishment have tried to seek out ways to reduce the number of babies born with disabilities. Historian Jaipreet ...
"For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value in understanding the psychophysiology of trauma and knowing what to do about its manifestations. This book illuminates that physiology, ...
Our building has step-free access. Exhibitions include audio description, British Sign Language and captions. show credit information for image 'Beauty Sensorium, 2023, Renaissance Goo x Baum & Leahy.
The Renaissance was an era obsessed with appearances, and beauty culture from the time offers a window into an overlooked realm of history. In ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Professor Jill Burke ...
Fluoride, teeth and health : summary of a report on fluoride and its effect on teeth and health / from the Royal College of Physicians of London [Committee on the Fluoridation of Water Supplies].
I am Black. I am queer. I am a woman. Every time I go to the GP, I have to come out. Without fail, where sex is the theme, I get the question: “Is there a chance you could be pregnant?” And each time, ...
For 30 years, Mary Bishop lived in Netherne Asylum in Surrey, where she produced hundreds of paintings. Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores how surveillance by medical staff and Bishop’s own ...