Stories
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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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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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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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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
National Federation of Women's Institutes
Date: 1929-1957Reference: SA/NBT/F.9/1Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
National Federation of Women's Institutes
Date: 1969Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/300Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Meetings between representatives of NBTF, Maternal Welfare Association and the National Federation of Women's Institutes
Date: Feb-Jun 1948Reference: SA/NBT/G.33/1/1Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
British Federation of Business and Professional Women, 1940 and National Council of Women, 1947
Date: 1940-1947Reference: SA/MWF/F.10Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
'The Place of Family Planning in the National Health Service', Medical Women's Federation Journal
Date: Jul 1950Reference: SA/MWF/B.4/4/4Part of: Medical Women's Federation