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Chronically ill

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Images from the collections

Images about Chronically ill

5 images from works
  • Left, Christ carrying the Cross, standing on a pile of crosses; right, people with crutches seek his help, within a setting of colonnades. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1568.
  • Left, Christ carrying the Cross, standing on a pile of crosses; right, people with crutches seek his help, within a setting of colonnades. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1568.
  • Saint Seraphinus. Etching by J.E. Mansfeld.
  • A patient at home. Oil painting by D. Mary Barber, ca. 1953.
  • A smiling woman bends down to communicate with a man with chronic illness; representing the need to protect the chronically sick against AIDS. Colour lithograph, 199-.

Works from the collections

41 works

    • Books

    Feeling iffy : a zine for chronically ill babes / Club Foof.

    | Date: [2020?]
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    • Online

    Quaranzine! : a zine about isolation, connectedness & survival in dark times / edited by Mad Covid.

    | Date: [2020]
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    Salt on the wound : poetic plasters / Romany Stott ; [designed by Astra Papachristodoulou].

    Stott, Romany | Date: 2025
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    Collide : a zine on physical & mental illness. #3, Family / [edited by J.C. Parker] ; cover art by Moose Lane.

    | Date: 2015
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    Wondrous sore.

    Finlay, Alec | Date:  [2023]
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Related topics

Chronic Disease
Persons with Disabilities
Persons with Disabilities
Disability Discrimination
Chronic Disease
Chronic Disease
Persons with Disabilities
Disability Studies
Mentally ill
Disability culture

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