Stories
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- Article
The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
- Article
Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
- Article
This is a MOOD
Adults might sometimes dismiss teenagers’ ‘moodiness’, but adolescence is a time of complex shifts in brain and body, which are intricately bound up with fluctuating feelings.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birth defects
Date: 1967-1975Reference: PP/RJH/D.2/1CPart of: Hetherington, Robert J- Journals
Birth defects original article series. Annual review of birth defects.
- Journals
Birth defects original article series.
Date: 1965-- Archives and manuscripts
Birth defects research group
Date: 1971-1976Reference: PP/CED/B.1/4Part of: Dent, Charles Enrique (1911-1976)- Archives and manuscripts
Birth Defects Foundation
Date: 1989Reference: SA/DRS/C/1/28Part of: DrugScope