Stories
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The pill, autism and me
Realising that her contraceptive was having a negative effect on her mental health, Catriona Reid saw her concerns dismissed by doctors. As an autistic woman on the pill, she was not an anomaly, but has often been made to feel like one.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- Article
The case for safe skin bleaching
Skin bleaching tends to attract a negative press for a whole host of reasons. But when used to treat medical problems, its positive side becomes clear.
Catalogue
- Books
Outcome of contraceptive pill announcement : the significance to, and findings of, BPAS national survey, implemented after the announcement of "New Advice on Oral Contraception" issued by the Committee on Safety of Medicines - 19 October 1995 / produced by British Pregnancy Advisory Service.
Date: 1996- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Oral contraceptives
Date: 1969-1990Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/8/3Part of: Family Planning Association
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Tom Hopkins: "The Pill Pushers - Twenty Years of Oral Contraceptive Advertising"
Date: 1978Reference: MS.8936/1Part of: Tom Hopkins: Oral Contraception material- Student dissertations
Medical attitudes to the oral contraceptive pill in the 1960's / submitted by Ian Kelt.
Kelt, Ian.Date: 1998- Books
Reporting pill panics : a comparative analysis of the media coverage of oral contraceptive health scares / by Philip B Hammond.
Hammond, Philip B.Date: 1996