Stories
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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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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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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.
Catalogue
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Society, medicine and politics in colonial India / edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
Date: 2018- Archives and manuscripts
British Social Hygiene Council
British Social Hygiene CouncilDate: 20th centuryReference: SA/BSH- Books
Matrescence : on the metamorphosis of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood / Lucy Jones.
Jones, Lucy (Journalist)Date: 2023- Books
The lure of hope : on the transnational surrogacy trail from Australia to India / Michaela Stockey-Bridge.
Stockey-Bridge, Michaela, 1979-Date: [2018]- Books
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Feeding the city : work and food culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas / Sara Roncaglia.
Roncaglia, Sara.Date: [2013], ©2013