A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.

• The Berlin Wall as a medical cure?
• Women’s struggle over sterilization.
• The enslaved Master Chefs of Thomas Jefferson.
• Massive slave burial ground found in the Caribbean.
• How contraception could save thousands of lives around the world.
• Oh, those “distracting” rape crisis centers.
• The growing complexities of midwifery along the US/Mexican border.
• Just in time for Bastille Day – A letter from Marie Antoinette. 
• Can oral sex cure morning sickness?
• What does Wonder Woman have in common with the lie detector?
• Scientific breakthroughs in bouncing breasts.
• Marketing to the menopausal woman.
• Nostalgia Lane: Remember these medical products?
• Bob Dylan is upset with historians.
• China’s search for its photographic past.