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What Black women do when the NHS fails them
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
Catalogue
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'Sex/Gender verification in international sports: the need to re-examine policy - and our notions of femininity, physical equality and fair play,' by Alison S Carlson, with related correspondence and papers
Date: 18 Aug 1995-4 Oct 1995Reference: UGC 188/8/28Part of: Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, geneticist, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Archives and manuscripts
Papers of the Committee on the Workings of the Abortion Act (Lane Committee)
Date: 1971 - 1972Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/5/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Evidence submitted by the FPA to the Lane Committee
Date: 1971 - 1972Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/5/4Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence re contraceptives by injection (Depo-Provera)
Date: 1978 - 1982Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/1/2/1Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
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A clinical lecture on dilatation of the gall bladder simulating ovarian cyst : delivered at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women / by Alban Doran.
Doran, Alban H. G. (Alban Henry Griffiths), 1849-1927.Date: 1905