Stories
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle
Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.
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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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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Western Australia, Bill to ban tobacco advertising
Date: 1983-1984Reference: SA/ASH/J/12/2Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Books
Western Australia honors two dental pioneers.
Date: 1986- Books
Western Australia : The dispersion system of colonization, and uniform price of all lands examined.
Western AustraliaDate: 1841]- Books
Western Australian aborigines, 1622-1972 : themes from Western Australian history a selection of documents and readings / [by B.T. Haynes [and others]].
Haynes, B. T. (Bruce T.)Date: 1973- Books
The progress of public health in Western Australia, 1829-1977 / Dudley Snow.
Snow, Dudley, 1913-1978.Date: 1981