Stories
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
- In pictures
Herbal medicines and the early modern menopause
Held responsible for their own “rebellious distempers” – or menopausal symptoms – women had no choice but to keep quiet and resort to unpalatable concoctions in the hope of relief, as Julia Nurse explains.
- Article
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.
- Article
Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Women in medicine", Royal Free Hospital, 12 Oct 1978
Date: 1978Reference: PP/CDW/K.79Part of: Williams, Cicely Delphine (1893-1992)- Books
Women in medicine / by Carol Lopate.
Lopate, Carol.Date: 1968- Books
Women in medicine : an encyclopedia / Laura Lynn Windsor.
Windsor, Laura Lynn.Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
Women in medicine and management : a mentoring guide / edited by Deborah M. Shlian.
Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
Women in medicine in late eighteenth and early twentieth century Edinburgh : a case study / Elaine Thomson.
Thomson, Elaine.Date: 1998