Stories
- Article
Finding my body through the wilderness
Writer Jennifer Neal used vigorous exercise classes to try and heal herself in the years following an assault. But it was only while hiking outdoors that she found true strength.
- Article
How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
- Article
Lonely bodies are hungry for more than turkey
At Christmas, many charities provide dinners for homeless or isolated people. Food is central to festive celebrations, but it can also satisfy our hunger for belonging and community.
- Article
The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Lom: Body Weight
Date: 1996-2005Reference: SA/WHL/15/13Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
Ulom: Menopause and Body Weight
Date: 1992Reference: SA/WHL/23/21Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Books
Body positive power / Megan Jayne Crabbe.
Crabbe, Megan JayneDate: 2017- Archives and manuscripts
Losw: Losing Weight
Date: 1998-2005Reference: SA/WHL/15/16Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Journals
The British amateur weight-lifter and body-builder.