A friend of mine recently lamented that when he sat his teenage son down to have “The Talk,” he had […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The torrid history of absinthe. Things historians can’t live […]
Placentophagy Isn’t New, But It Has Changed
Over the last several years, placentophagy has slowly crept into that vicious public media arena known as “the Mommy Wars.” […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A glimpse of 1930s Paris. A cultural history of […]
Elizabeth Blackwell in the Digital World
You’ve probably heard of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in the United States to earn a medical degree, but did […]
Exploding Myths About Medicine’s Wage Gap: Lessons From the Past and Present
It’s not news that women are paid less than men for comparable work, subject to variation across race, field of […]
Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in our daily lives to read […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 15 centuries-old board games. The superheroes of the archives? […]
If You’re Not a Jerk, Then I’m Not Disabled
This is my fantasy: I’m standing at the Main Street corner in my little New Jersey suburban downtown, waiting to […]
Satan’s Fortress: Christianity, Sex, and Josh Duggar
When I was 18, I attended a large gathering of evangelical Christians, just as I had every summer through high […]
