Stories
- Article
The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
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Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
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Foraging for a taste of the past
Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Kujl: Polycystic Ovaries
Date: 2001-2003Reference: SA/WHL/14/36/1Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
KujlOl: Polycystic Ovaries and Fertility
Date: 2003-2005Reference: SA/WHL/14/36/4Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Archives and manuscripts
'Helen Marsh - Queensland. Slides - Dugong & Manatee Ovaries'
Date: 1981Reference: PP/AMO/E/2/8Part of: Amoroso, Professor Emmanuel Ciprian CBE, FRCP, FRS (1901-1982)- Books
- Online
On displacement of the ovaries / by Thomas More Madden.
Date: 1886- Books
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Diseases of the ovaries : their diagnosis and treatment / by T. Spencer Wells.
Wells, Spencer, 1818-1897.Date: 1872