Stories
- In pictures
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
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
Hygiene / Don Nardo ; introduction by C. Everett Koop.
Nardo, Don, 1947-Date: [1993], ©1993- Books
Hygiene and sanitation manual / by Alan Carruth Stevenson.
Stevenson, Alan Carruth.Date: 1956- Books
Hygiène / [Hugues Gounelle].
Gounelle, Hugues.Date: [1952]- Books
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Hygiene and public health / L.C. Parkes, Henry R. Kenwood.
Parkes, Louis Coltman, 1857-1942.Date: 1911- Books
Hygiene and medicine under Mogul rule / Dr. Edward Burgham.
Burgham, Edward.Date: 1941