A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The amateur abortionists.
- Medicine’s medieval roots.
- The pharmacist of Auschwitz.
- Cholera in 19th-century France.
- Romania’s problem with Dracula.
- The woman doctors who fought to serve.
- How black freedom benefited poor whites.
- An old disease that needs a new treatment.
- Global weirding in America’s first gilded age.
- The smoking gun of the Armenian genocide?
- A native woman talks Trump and Andrew Jackson.
- Gentrification and queer erasure in Roanoke, Virginia.
- On the legacy of Latasha Harlins and the 1992 L.A. riots.
- For the Henrietta Lacks family, it’s a matter of who gets to tell her story.