A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Native foods and the colonial gaze.
- Sick servants in early modern Britain.
- The road to health and happiness, 1937.
- The myth of Native American alcoholism.
- How the microscope changed everything.
- How to cure a headache in Mesopotamia.
- The Japanese art of grieving a miscarriage.
- The grim, awful vision of the city of the future.
- Passions flare over memory of Manhattan Project.
- The family tragedy that inspired the Brontë sisters.
- Gilmore Girls, Silvia Plath, and mental health stigma.
- Private, public, and vigilante violence in slave societies.
- The faces of long-gone women tell a new story about a Kansas prison.
- Unpublished research data raises concerns over morning sickness drug.