Her Body Healed

Seeing her sex: medical archives and the female body

bodies did not escape scrutiny with respect to their actual or potential dirtiness. But, argues Bashford, their need, for example, to "scrub", as aseptic surgical techniques were adopted, carried far less moral meaning. The great strengths of Bashford's book lie in her ability to make new conceptual links across what are, for the most part, relatively well-worked areas, and in her sharp eye for...

A 39-year-old woman with spots covering her body.

To cite: Cowart D, Cowart KA, Hougeir FG. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-201434 DESCRIPTION A 39-year-old African-American woman presented with a 12-year history of ‘itchy dark spots all over my body,’ excluding the face and acral surfaces. The lesions are slightly pruritic at baseline. Flares occur frequently, however, mostly with friction ...

Healed dissecting aneurysm.

Healed by the Light

Light energy has been used for healing since the earliest recorded medical history, but has gone out of favor in Western medicine with the advent of the existing paradigm of a more surgical and pharmacological basis. Recently, a shift in thinking has been emerging with an explosion of research, exploration and utilization of energy medicine modalities such as micro-current stimulators, bone gro...

Pneumonic aspergillosis complicating healed tuberculosis.