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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure

Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.

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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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Found items

Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.

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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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  • The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].
  • The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].
  • The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].
  • The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].
  • The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].
  • The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].
  • The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].
  • The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].
  • The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].
  • The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery, in reference to the process of parturition / [Francis H. Ramsbotham].
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