Stories
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain
After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
Catalogue
- Books
Promoting safer sex : prevention of sexual transmission of AIDS and other STD proceedings of an international workshop held May 1989 in the Netherlands and organized by the Dutch Foundation for Sexually Transmitted Disease Control (STD Foundation) / edited by Maria Paalman.
Date: 1990- Books
AIDS as a gender issue : psychosocial perspectives / edited by Lorraine Sherr, Catherine Hankins, Lydia Bennett.
Date: 1996- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Women's Federation
Medical Womens' FederationDate: 1879-1988Reference: SA/MWF- Books
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Women, AIDS, and activism / by the ACT UP/New York Women and AIDS Book Group ; Marion Banzhaf [and 12 others].
Date: [1990]- Books
Positive women : women with HIV/AIDS speak out.
Date: [1992]