Stories
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Invisibility
Why do menopausal women feel invisible? Because nobody talks about menopause or because society doesn't value older women?
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Are you still nursing?
Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.
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Taking the piss
Council cuts have created public-toilet deserts across the UK, limiting journeys and days out for people whose medical conditions mean toilet access is essential. Campaigner Kevin Crowe highlights the issues.
Catalogue
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Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine : From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period / edited by Susan Francia and Anne Stobart.
Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
Consultants folder: "NHS Quality Improvement Scotland"
Date: 2002-2003Reference: SA/NCT/E/1/2/42Part of: National Childbirth Trust (NCT)- Books
Birth and breastfeeding : rediscovering the needs of women in pregnancy and childbirth / Michel Odent.
Odent, Michel, 1930-Date: 2003- Videos
Health - who cares?.
Date: [date of publication not identified]- Books
Ideas and practices in the history of medicine. 1650-1850 / Adrian Wilson.
Wilson, Adrian, 1947-Date: [2014]