A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of women dentists.
- Reexamining Andy Warhol’s death.
- Science and a guinea pig mea culpa.
- The lady historian who lived like a Tudor.
- The plundering of famous corpses: a list.
- The woman who revolutionized sex education.
- The next pandemic may be dripping on your head.
- The girl is on fire: Germany’s creepiest children’s poem.
- A tale of four skulls: what human bones reveal about cities.
- Homeopathic remedy may have harmed hundreds of babies.
- The seductive lie of “Patient Zero” and the outbreak narrative.
- A box of old photos and gender-bending in Norway, 1895-1903.
- A child from the 17th century may force us to rewrite the history of smallpox.