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
Communities of cross-feeders
A desire to help leads some women to “cross-feed” – breastfeed other parents’ babies for free. Alev Scott delves into the emotions behind this altruistic act.
- Article
When skin bleaching goes wrong
Warnings about permanent health damage don’t deter those using skin-bleaching products for years on end. Read the story of one woman who suffered from liver failure after years of striving to be paler.
Catalogue
- Books
Balancing hormones naturally / Kate Neil & Patrick Holford.
Neil, KateDate: 1998- Books
Bovine somatotropin / Christopher Barclay.
Barclay, Christopher.Date: [1993]- Books
Treatment of adrenal insufficiency by means of subcutaneous implants of pellets of desoxycorticosterone acetate (a synthetic adrenal cortical hormone) / G.W. Thorn, L.L. Engel, H. Eisenberg.
Thorn, George W. (George Widmer), 1906-2004Date: 1939- Ephemera
- Online
A triumph of synthesis : Stilboestrol : a synthetic oestrogen.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]- Audio
Endocrine system.
Date: 1999