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- In pictures
- In pictures
Herbal medicines and the early modern menopause
| Julia Nurse
Held responsible for their own “rebellious distempers” – or menopausal symptoms – women had no choice but to keep quiet and resort to unpalatable concoctions in the hope of relief, as Julia Nurse explains.
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What Black women do when the NHS fails them
| Sabrina-Maria AndersonMaïa WalcottBlack Ballad
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
- Article
- Article
Invisibility
| Helen FosterEast Midlands Oral History ArchiveAsma Istwani
Why do menopausal women feel invisible? Because nobody talks about menopause or because society doesn't value older women?
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What the nose doesn’t know
| Stephanie Howard-SmithSteven Pocock
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.