In the early modern world, syphilis victims suffered through four stages of disease over a ten- to thirty-year time span. […]
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In the early modern world, syphilis victims suffered through four stages of disease over a ten- to thirty-year time span. […]
On October 24, 1918, fifty-eight-year-old Elizabeth was admitted to the City of London Mental Hospital by her husband.1 He stated […]
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While Florence Nightingale is legendary in the history of nursing because of her foundational role in the creation of Western […]
Recently, I had my students in Food in American Society and Culture try their hand at drafting dietary guidelines. While […]
On the evening of Wednesday, March 14, Marielle Franco — the thirty-eight-year-old human-rights activist, feminist, anti-racist organizer, and recently-elected city […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Disasters have histories. A brief history of gay theater. […]
Migrant indigenous Andean women living in the lowland Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra often mention sobreparto (“following […]
I was intrigued when, on February 1, 2018, I heard the journalist and author Johann Hari on Democracy Now! talking […]
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Secrets of a brothel privy. Susan B. Anthony’s bad […]