Stories
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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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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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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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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Health, hygiene and longevity in medieval and Renaissance Europe / Richard Palmer.
Palmer, Richard (Richard John) (Librarian and historian)Date: 1991- Books
Dietary hygiene and allied literature in the Ming dynasty of China / Zheng Jinsheng.
Zheng, JinshengDate: 1991- Books
A historical perspective on the social development of 'hygiene' in modern Japan / Hiroshi Mizuno.
Mizuno, HiroshiDate: 1991- Books
Policing the food trades : epidemiology, hygiene, and public administration in Edwardian Brighton / John M. Eyler.
Eyler, John MDate: 1991- Books
Inner hygiene : the philosophy and practice of intestinal purity in western civilisation / James C. Whorton.
Whorton, James C., 1942-Date: 1991