Stories
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed
Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.
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When skin bleaching goes wrong
Warnings about permanent health damage don’t deter those using skin-bleaching products for years on end. Read the story of one woman who suffered from liver failure after years of striving to be paler.
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
Catalogue
- Film
Newborn baby.
Date: 1971- Archives and manuscripts
Newborn pigs
Date: 1944-1945Reference: GC/97/E.3/1Part of: McCance, Robert Alexander (1898-1993), and Widdowson, Elsie May (1908-2000)
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Newborn, Albert H.
Date: 1913-1913Reference: RET/6/20/1/14/2Part of: The Retreat Archive
- Digital Images
- Online
Newborn baby with Down's syndrome
Fiona Yaron-Field- Books
Newborn medicine and society : European background and American practice (1750-1975) / Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond.
Desmond, Murdina M., 1916-Date: 1998
