A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- We need to talk about Dr. Phil.
- Contraception in fantasy novels.
- The rise and fall of DC’s Chinatown.
- Confined by leprosy: remembering Mr. Pete.
- Black gay history and the fight against AIDS.
- A saving breath: the history of respiratory care.
- The personal tragedy behind The Joy of Cooking.
- The handsy boss and the sexy secretary: a history.
- How blackboards transformed American education.
- A 1960s “hippie clinic” inspired a medical philosophy.
- Why scientists once used taste tests as paternity tests.
- A history of women who burned to death in flammable dresses.
- What it’s like to be on your period in an overcrowded refugee camp.
- The controversy over the 1930s children’s book, The Story of Ferdinand.
- The long history of women not being taken seriously affects women in power.