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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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Six personal health zines that might change your life

Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.

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The law of periodicity for menstruation

Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.

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A history of gestation outside the body

It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.

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  • Annual planner for 2009. Colour lithograph by Consortium of Reproductive Health Associations, 2009.
  • Various contraceptive methods: family planning in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Center, ca. 1999.
  • A woman's face on shattered glass: women's health rights in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.
  • A white chart containing Arabic text about female genital mutilation in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.
  • A woman caught in a spider web: female genital mutilation in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.
  • Ehemera from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection held in the Library & Archives Serviice at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • A health worker guides a woman into a centre for reproductive health for adolescents in Senegal. Colour lithograph by CSRJ, ca. 2000.
  • A woman shielding her face with her hand from a razor dripping with blood: female genital mutilation in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Centre, ca. 1999.
  • A health worker inviting two young men and two young women into a Senegal health center. Colour lithograph by Senegal Service National de la Sante Reproductive, ca. 2000.
  • Four scenes involving health workers advising young men and women in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Senegal Service National de la Sante Reproductive, ca. 2002.
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