Stories
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How the mental health system fails Black people
Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.
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Don’t call me a strong Black woman
Her upbringing taught Jaydee Seaforth that she could never show pain or weakness, even when her internal distress was extreme. Find out how she learned to listen to her body.
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Religion and mental health
At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.
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What Black women do when the NHS fails them
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.
Catalogue
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Health, hygiene and longevity in medieval and Renaissance Europe / Richard Palmer.
Palmer, Richard (Richard John) (Librarian and historian)Date: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
Comments on proposed amendments to the Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations 1959 - bottle hygiene
Date: Apr-Aug 1972Reference: SA/SMO/L.114Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Videos
What the Victorians did for us. Health and hygiene.
Date: 2003- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene
Date: 1892-1997Reference: SA/RSP/BPart of: Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors- Books
Studies on hookworm, Ascaris and Trichuris in Panama : embodying the results of the researches of an expedition to the republic of Panama, May to September, 1926 / by W.W. Cort [and others].
Date: 1929