From isolated recluse to respected citizen – a tale of two people

I was so delighted to be invited to comment last week on the extraordinary meeting of Richard Norris, a face transplant patient, with his donor’s sister, on the BBC and a number of other news outlets. (You can watch me on the Victoria Derbyshire Show on BBC Two from 31m 35s here.) Here was a

Celebrating two Giant Men

Joseph Merrick was born 150 years ago this August in Leicester and although he only lived 27 years, became something of a celebrity in Victorian England. His condition was not properly diagnosed during his life but he is now thought to have had combination of neurofibromatosis type I and Proteus Syndrome. Merrick offered himself to