Stories
- Article
The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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Domestic titans
Feeling trapped by the idea that an impenetrable carapace of space trash could surround the planet, Elvia Wilk turned to thoughts of the new worlds still to be revealed here on Earth.
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Self-care for back pain sufferers / produced by the National Back Pain Association in collaboration with Inoven, today's answer to pain.
Date: 1990- Pictures
- Online
A man with his wife and family crosses a zebra crossing while swivelling his head back to admire two passing women representing a warning about the risks of new sexual partners and AIDS; an advertisement by the National AIDS Control Project in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, 1996.
Date: Jan [19]96Reference: 677168i- Books
Lifting, shifting, moving : preventing and managing back pain at work / BackCare.
Date: 2009- Pictures
- Online
A man apparently with an STD looking alarmed as he holds up a sheet to cover his genital area; with three further anxious men and women with similar complaints to the right; a warning to seek treatment for STD's by the National AIDS Control Project in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, 1995.
Date: Dec [19]95Reference: 677170i- Books
Avoiding back trouble / [Consumers' Association] ; [edited by Edith Rudinger].
Date: 1975