A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Before Zika, there was rubella. Dude ranch fashion of […]
Mosquitos and Mothers: The Zika Virus and Real Talk on Birth Control
Mosquitos carrying the Zika virus in Latin America are wreaking havoc in people’s lives into the next generation. It’s only […]
Denver’s One-Lung Army: Disease, Disability, and Debility in a Frontier City
This post originally appeared on REMEDIA. In 1879 the famous showman, P.T. Barnum joked that, “Coloradoans are the most disappointed people I […]
The Other Side of Choice, a Review of Independent Lens “No Más Bebés“
Anyone who is even vaguely familiar with contemporary American culture likely understands that female fertility has been a hotly contested, […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The virginity disease. Was Dr. Asperger a Nazi? Medicines […]
Clio Reads: A Review of It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries Of Female Genital Pain
“Female genital pain” is an umbrella term that encompasses a range of often miserable, frequently perplexing conditions that render women’s […]
El Chapo, Sean Penn, and the Violence of Celebrity
Well Rolling Stone, you’ve done it again. Your feigned naiveté combined with your lack of journalistic integrity has propelled you […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The fit flapper. Slaying the rubella dragon. Subversive flour […]
The Young and the Gangrenous
Bandages, Blood, and Bickering, Oh My! A Civil War is brewing within the walls of Mansion House Hospital, the setting […]
Of Rifles and Responsibility: How Can We Speak to Each Other Across the Gun Control Divide?
As a kid, I loved shooting a rifle with my uncle, out back at my grandmother’s farmhouse. My dad and […]
