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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle

Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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How I cured my fear of vomiting

Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.

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Menstruation, magic and moon myths

Why do stories cloaking periods in magic and mystery persist? Pragya Agarwal argues against myth-making and for inclusive menstrual education, grounded in fact.

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  • Food stall hygiene
  • Pathways of cholera infection: water, food, etc; and methods of hygiene. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).
  • The importance of food hygiene for children in Djibouti. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé and Unicef, ca. 2000.
  • Hygiene: a child is told to throw a food wrapper into a bin, not drop it on the ground. Colour lithograph, 198-.
  • A comic human figure looking dubiously at a bowl of soup; advertising food hygiene. Colour lithograph after L. Bramberg for the Swedish Red Cross, 1954.
  • A stylized blue head and the sun forming the silhouette of an Ionic capital; advertising an exhibition on food and hygiene in Amsterdam. Colour lithograph by G. Scheepstra, 1933.
  • A dictionary of hygiène and public health : comprising sanitary chemistry, engineering, and legislation, the dietetic value of foods, and the detection of adulterations, on the plan of the "Dictionnaire d'hygiène publique" of Professor Ambroise Tardieu / by Alexander Wynter Blyth.
  • Food stall in Indonesia
  • Salmonella enterica
  • Salmonella enterica
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