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The birth of ante-natal classes

Is childbirth an athletic feat? Kathleen Vaughan certainly thought so, developing the first modern exercise class for women in pregnancy.

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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.

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  • Archiv für Schiffs- und Tropen-Hygiene.
  • International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, 1891
  • School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Institute, Calcutta
  • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
  • Hygiene in China: the ten parasites. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Hygiene in China: the ten parasites. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Hygiene in China: the ten parasites. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Hygiene in China: the ten parasites. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Hygiene in China: the ten parasites. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Hygiene in China: the ten parasites. Colour lithographs, 1952.
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