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Invisibility

Why do menopausal women feel invisible? Because nobody talks about menopause or because society doesn't value older women?

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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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Crones

Menopause can be tough when nobody talks about it and all the stereotypes are negative, but it can also be transformative, marking the start of a new stage of life - cronehood.

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Witches

Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.

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  • A shop in a bazaar in the Middle East. Oil painting.
  • Two men in a car outside the Wellcome pharmaceutical depot in the Middle East. Photograph.
  • Two men in a car outside the Wellcome pharmaceutical depot in the Middle East. Photograph.
  • World War II: engineers of the GHQ Middle East Forces (?) relaxing on the coast of Egypt (?). Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • World War II: engineers of the GHQ Middle East Forces (?) relaxing on the coast of Egypt (?). Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • Olea europaea L. Oleaceae Olive Distribution: Europe, Middle East. Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) regarded the olive as a panacea, curing all manner of cutaneous afflictions from shingles to sores
  • A section through the roadway of Holborn Viaduct, London: looking east, showing the middle level sewer. Wood engraving after W. Haywood, 1854.
  • Middle eastern Quorn : serves 12 / The Quorn Kitchen.
  • Middle eastern Quorn : serves 12 / The Quorn Kitchen.
  • Hunkarim : cafe, bar, restaurant : serving a mixture of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes : take away & delivery menu.
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