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- Article
The search for a cure for endometriosis
| Jaipreet VirdiAnne Howeson
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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The meaning of trauma is wound
| Daisy JohnsonBenjamin Gilbert
Daisy Johnson recalls her difficult journey to being diagnosed with vaginismus, and why women are so good at turning bad things into a joke.
- Long read
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
| Florence WildbloodKathleen Arundell
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.