A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- Who gets the embryos?
- How to create a human being.
- The secret history of Leviticus.
- Why is history all about humans?
- Diseases of virgins and spinsters.
- America’s first female mapmaker.
- Polio and the origins of Candy Land.
- Race and identity in medieval Europe.
- The feminist history of food journalism.
- Documenting the history of black Appalachia.
- The historical struggle to rid socialism of sexism.
- The complicated history of Canada and cannabis.
- The friendship of Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
- Sonic hedgehog and Beethoven: how some genes got their names.
- Doctoral student compiles database of missing indigenous women.
- The lioness and the cheese grater: history’s most mysterious sex position?