Stories
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
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Building resilience in a racist world
With the resurgence of racism in today’s UK, Louisa Adjoa Parker reflects on the trauma of growing up in a racist society and explores how victims could begin to heal.
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The epilepsy diagnosis
Epilepsy exists between the mind and body, something that Aparna Nair experienced for herself when she was diagnosed as a teenager.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000641 - C0000690
Date: 1997-1998Reference: WT/B/11/1/16Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Rachael Eastham, “If you want to have it off, put it on.” A History of Brook 1964-1973
Eastham, RachaelDate: 2010Reference: MS.9180- Books
ESPE - the first 50 years : a history of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology / editor, Wolfgang G. Sippell on behalf of the ESPE Council.
Date: [2011], ©2011- Archives and manuscripts
Brook: Archives
Brook; Brook Advisory CentresDate: 1958-2011Reference: SA/BRO- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Articella and other tracts
Date: 12th century - 14th centuryReference: MS.801A