A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Children in the asylum.
- The origin of monsters.
- The history of Ouija boards.
- Save the pub or safeguard health?
- Unpregnancy and Arctic exploration.
- The early days of America’s AIDS crisis.
- Formaldehyde in milk and lead in cheese.
- When pop-up books taught popular science.
- Homefront Army doctors and VD during WWI.
- “Female pain is fetishized but never vindicated.”
- What the name “Civil War” means and why it matters.
- Women in the US can now get safe abortions by mail.
- How Victorian mansions became the default haunted house.
- The Japanese man who saved 6,000 Jews with his handwriting.
- Benjamin Franklin and history’s most dangerous musical instrument.
- The dawn of TV promised diversity. Instead we got Leave it to Beaver.
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I hope you have heard about Dr. Andrea Hayes-Jordan, and Dr. Erika Adams-Newman.
They have different areas of exoertise, but their life work can show you where science would be in general if racism and sexism is removed from cultural life.