Image: ‘Virgo’ in Urania’s Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825 This week we tackle another reproductive health myth, and perhaps the most dangerous one of all…
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Archives for No shame
I’m so over the moon… myth (Part 2)
Image: ‘Die Mondfee’ -‘The Moon Fairy’- by Hermann Kaulbach The last post outlined two common menstrual myths… One about the moon having an influence over the menstrual cycle, another about
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I’m so over the moon… myth (Part 1)
Image: ‘Die Mondfee’ -‘The Moon Fairy’- by Hermann Kaulbach (Wiki-commons) Building on last month’s blog about the way in which PMS is often (wrongly) presented as something affecting ‘all women’,
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Not all women; understanding biological variation
This month’s blog tries to unpick a major myth about the female body, and how it affects the way in which clinical research is understood by the public, media, and
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Women’s right to reason… (Part 3)
Part 1 of this 3-part blog post discussed the way in which medical theories tend to be highly reflective of their particular cultural, and historical context. In part 2, we
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History/ hystery and No shame.
