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.
- Article
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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The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain
After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Endometriosis Society material
Date: 1989 - 1991Reference: PP/WDS/B.9/3Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)- Books
Endometriosis and fibroids : the complete guide to the causes, the symptoms and the treatments / Sarah Brewer with the National Endometriosis Society.
Brewer, Sarah.Date: 1998- Books
Endometriosis : a key to healing through nutrition / Dian Shepperson Mills and Michael Vernon.
Mills, Dian SheppersonDate: 2002- Student dissertations
Endometriosis : 1880-1940 : the discovery, naming, framing and understanding of a complicated condition / by Gary Hannant.
Hannant, Gary.Date: 2002- Books
Endometriosis & infertility and traditional Chinese medicine : a laywoman's guide / by Bob Flaws ; illustrated by Honora Lee Wolfe.
Flaws, Bob, 1946-Date: 1989