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The hell of hay fever

After years suffering in silence, David Jesudason finds speaking out about his pollen allergy gives him hope for a future where his hay-fever symptoms are under control.

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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.

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The law of periodicity for menstruation

Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.

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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty

Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?

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  • Portrait of William Crawford Gorgas, from a photograph in the London School of Hygiene
  • Mücken : keine AIDS-Gefahr / AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz ; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • Mücken : keine AIDS-Gefahr / AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz ; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Institute, Calcutta
  • Ehemera from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection held in the Library & Archives Serviice at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: British Services medical officers taking the course in tropical medicine and parasitology. Photograph by T.H. Everitt & Son, 1943.
  • Cooke's School of Anatomy (London School of Anatomy), London: interior, showing anatomical specimens in a cupboard. Photograph, ca. 192-.
  • Cooke's School of Anatomy (London School of Anatomy), London: interior, showing a man with a skeleton. Photograph, ca. 192-.
  • Cooke's School of Anatomy (London School of Anatomy), London: interior, showing Edward Knight with anatomical specimens. Photograph, ca. 192-.
  • Cooke's School of Anatomy (London School of Anatomy), London: interior, showing Edward Knight with anatomical specimens. Photograph, ca. 192-.
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