This essay outlines how the focus on able-bodied menstruators in development of social narratives about menstruation erases experiences and discrimination experienced by with disabilities. Many disabilities experience shame around menstruation, embarrassed “burden” their menstrual caregivers concerned breaching etiquette hygiene. Narratives are incomplete without considering these experi...

Menstruation is supposed to be a normal physiological phenomenon for women, but even with the advancement of science and technology, public has partial understanding physiology menstruation, while at same time stigma menstruation still affects every woman. Menstrual shame not only phenomenon, also social connotations. This article summarises menstrual that women experience in everyday life, des...

PREMENSTRUAL migraine and closed-angle glaucoma have many points of similarity: thus both may be provoked by the water-drinking test; all are more severe in the early morning; contributory factors precipitating attacks include emotional stress and fatigue; and in both there may be other systemic disturbances such as nausea, lethargy, and vertigo. The excitable temperament of patients with close...

Menstruation has been a puzzling problem, not only to the laity but also to the physician and to the biologist. The nature of menstruation and, if one may say so, its biological meaning, have been quite obscure until a few years ago, but recent biological analyses, based upon and continuing Heape's and Marshall's fundamental work, revealed facts and relations which really provide an explanation...