Stories
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Lying low for lockdown and beyond
For Liz Carr the chances of catching Covid-19 are the same as for anyone else, but as a Disabled person she's at much greater risk of not getting the treatment she needs if she falls ill.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
Catalogue
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Childbearing policy within a national health program : an evolving consensus for new directions : a collaborative position paper / from Boston Women's Health Book Collective, National Black Women's Health Project, National Women's Health Network, Women's Institute for Childbearing Policy.
Date: [1994]- Books
Biological, social, and organizational components of success for women in academic science and engineering : report of a workshop / Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Date: [2006], ©2006- Books
Young women and their relationships : power and pleasure : key issues for practitioners and policy-makers / Claire Maxwell & Peter Aggleton, Institute of Education, University of London ; with contributions from Lucy Emmerson, Sex Education Forum, National Children's Bureau.
Maxwell, ClaireDate: 2009- Books
Human health and forests : a global overview of issues, practice, and policy / edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer.
Date: 2008- Books
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Professional identities : policy and practice in business and bureaucracy / edited by Shirley Ardener and Fiona Moore.
Date: 2007