Stories
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Surviving fatness
It took time for LMM to discover that being fat and poor are mutually exclusive. Here she describes resisting fatphobia by being visible and leaning in to the stereotype.
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Sharing breastmilk with parents
Alev Scott donated her frozen breastmilk to a hospital milk bank, but she was curious about other routes. Here she explores commercial operations and informal private arrangements.
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Mixed feelings and milk siblings
A friend in need has a profound effect on Alev’s feelings about women sharing their milk in this final instalment of ‘The Breastmilk Market’.
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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me
Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.
Catalogue
- Books
Bernice M. Hemphill : the mother of blood banking : Irwin Memorial Blood Bank and the American Association of Blood Banks, 1944-1994 / with an introduction by Herbert A. Perkins ; interviews conducted by Germaine LaBerge in 1995 and 1996.
Hemphill, Bernice M., 1915-1996.Date: 1998- Books
- Online
The Development of Brain Banks in the UK c.1970–c.2010 : the transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary University of London, on 12 November 2013 / edited by C Overy and E M Tansey.
Date: 2015- Books
Banking on the body : the market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America / Kara W. Swanson.
Swanson, Kara W.Date: 2014- Books
Good quality : the routinization of sperm banking in China / Ayo Wahlberg.
Wahlberg, AyoDate: [2018]- Books
Genetic justice : DNA data banks, criminal investigations, and civil liberties / Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli.
Krimsky, Sheldon.Date: [2011], ©2011