A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The artificial kidney.
- Poison in colonial India.
- Period poetry contests.
- Why sound archiving is important.
- The business of pregnancy testing.
- Why the Nazis studied American race laws.
- Historians have a new theory on Anne Frank.
- The struggles of America’s first black doctors.
- Finding patients’ voices in hospital publications.
- Watch the rare British documentary on 1960s witches.
- Why the hype around medical genetics is a public enemy.
- John Glenn’s fan mail and sexism in the early space program.
- How one of the first female rock critics battled sexism and obscurity.
- Art & science can help build an understanding of transgender struggles.
- 17th century melancholy may offer clues to 21st century mood disorders.