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Market Town : Simon - Living with Epilepsy - Brave New World
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Jul 12, 2013

Market Town : Simon – Living with Epilepsy – Brave New World

by J A Mortram
Introduction by Lynne Pettinger:  It’s not always easy to look at Jim Mortram’s photography, but it’s always worth doing so. In this series, part of his ‘small town inertia’ project, he photographs Simon. Simon’s got epilepsy, and has been put... More…
Counting the cost of heroic surgical intervention
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Feb 22, 2013

Counting the cost of heroic surgical intervention

by Hannah Bradby
The practice of medicine involves interesting contradictions. In the name of treatment, clinicians regularly inflict pain on people who are already suffering. Medicine promises to alleviate pain in the long-term through an intervention that  exacerbates it.  Such is the strength... More…

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