Stories
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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.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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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.
Catalogue
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HIV in pregnancy : a review.
Date: 1999- Books
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Die Antisepsis bei Schwangeren, Gebärenden und Wöchnerinnen : mit einem Anhange über den Gebrauch von Quecksilberchlorid als Desinfectionsmittel in der Geburtshilfe / von Camillo Fürst.
Fürst, Camillo.Date: 1885- Books
Reducing the odds : preventing perinatal transmission of HIV in the United States / Michael A. Stoto, Donna A. Almario, and Marie C. McCormick, editors ; Committee on Perinatal Transmission of HIV, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine, and Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine.
Date: 1999- Books
Birth in the age of AIDS : women, reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India / Cecilia Van Hollen.
Van Hollen, Cecilia CoaleDate: [2013]- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1928-1929Reference: WF/M/GB/30/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd