Stories
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Invisibility
Why do menopausal women feel invisible? Because nobody talks about menopause or because society doesn't value older women?
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Why we need to decolonise healthcare
In this extract from ‘Divided’, Annabel Sowemimo describes the way her nana’s stroke and hospitalisation heightened her awareness of the need for us all to advocate for the health of others.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
Catalogue
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Contributions to vital statistics : especially designed to elucidate the rate of mortality, the laws of sickness, and the influences of trade and locality on health, derived from an extensive collection of original data, supplied by Friendly Societies, and proving their too frequent instability / by F.G.P. Neison.
Neison, F. G. P. (Francis Gustavus Paulus)Date: [1845]- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Women's Federation
Medical Womens' FederationDate: 1879-1988Reference: SA/MWF- Books
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Transactions of the Statistical Society of London.
Statistical Society (Great Britain)Date: 1837- Books
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Contributions to vital statistics : being a development of the rate of mortality and the laws of sickness, from original and extensive data procured from friendly societies, showing the instability of friendly societies, "Odd Fellows", "Rechabites", &c. ; with an inquiry into the influence of locality on health / by F.G.P. Neison.
Date: 1847- Books
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Contribution to the vital statistics of Scotland / by James Stark.
Stark James, 1814-1883.Date: 1851