Stories
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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies
The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Medical Women's Federation: lecture notes on the history of women in medicine', typescript
Reference: SA/MWF/C.7/3Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
'Women in Medicine', typescript, 'Leeds - Boots' Pharmacists' Association' 9 Feb 1950
Date: 1950Reference: SA/MWF/C.7/1Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
Flyer for Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, A History of Women in Medicine, 1938
Date: 1938Reference: SA/MWF/C.9/6Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
Women gain a place in medicine / Edythe Lutzker.
Lutzker, Edythe.Date: [1969]- Archives and manuscripts
History 3 - Woman in Medicine: Various Papers
Date: 1910-1980Reference: SA/MWF/C.7-9Part of: Medical Women's Federation