A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Etsy’s vaginal problem.
- Trump’s meddlesome priest.
- The long history of fidget toys.
- Genital amputation in Colombia.
- The radical history of a bed sheet.
- Quinine and the American Civil War.
- A beginner’s guide to humoral medicine.
- A brief history of school lunches in America.
- Removing bladder stones before anesthesia.
- How a 1980 letter fueled the opioid epidemic.
- Rain, epidemics, and life on the docks in 1918.
- The fight to integrate the National Spelling Bee.
- Labor history and passenger outrage in the airline industry.
- Stevie Nicks in a 1983 women’s self-defense manual looking fabulous.