A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- It’s made of people!!
- What creates memories?
- What exactly is a diagnosis?
- On the trail of black cowboys.
- Mark Twain on masturbation.
- The history of the humble knish.
- The search for psychology’s lost boy.
- The unexpected history of a lice comb.
- A 1940s government comic about DDT.
- The gruesome art of medical illustration.
- What was the ultimate medieval aphrodisiac?
- How Jews designed the modern American home.
- A 1957 guide to harnessing your womanly powers.
- Supreme Court shifts away from “mental retardation.”
- Breastfeeding grandchildren in the early modern world.
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That article on the search for psychology’s lost boy is so interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
Without tooting my own trumpet, i have been reading a most amusing home medical journal called Vitalogy this week. It is so outdated ! I even managed to do a brief article on it for my blog. Thanks Clio !