Stories
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Bloody capitalism and the cash flow of the menstrual cycle
Once they thrived on taboos and shame. Now period-product manufacturers are finding new ways to flourish in this era of period activism – but products aren’t the end of the story.
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Women's Federation, minutes and correspondence
Date: Jun 1989 - 1994Reference: PP/WDS/D.1/2Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)- Books
Our bodies, ourselves : a book by and for women / the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
Date: [1976], ©1976- Ephemera
Community health : guess who's just had a checkup? : Australia, 41c.
Date: [1990]- Books
Women's health : where do health professionals stand ? - a training package / developed and written by Maria Bohan and Pauline Stanton.
Bohan, MariaDate: [1992]- Ephemera
- Online
Women and AIDS : plain speaking about AIDS and how it affects women, written for women by the experts - women. 2, Positive result? - Look after yourself / Positively Women and Immunity.
Date: 1989