A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Snake oil revisited.
- Johnny’s got the syph.
- The 1910 St. Johns riot.
- Um…meet the smart sex doll, Samantha.
- Walking the wards of a Victorian hospital.
- The lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
- Documenting 100 years of Japanese animation.
- Smartphone app can accurately test sperm count.
- Psychoanalysis and the making of American culture.
- President James K. Polk’s body may be moved. Again.
- 5 things that might surprise you about Civil War medicine.
- Did this city intentionally misspell Frederick Douglass’ name?
- The “great men” of Victorian science were accused of being unmanly.
- Germany to clear men sentenced for homosexuality under a Nazi-era law.