A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Madhouse genetics.
- The history of the bidet.
- The great big pumpkin fight.
- Why fascists hate masturbation.
- What caused the Salem witch trials?
- How furious women shaped our history.
- Aging can be hard on trans community.
- The long history of lavender as medicine.
- A call to include art in pre-med education.
- How HBO is changing sex scenes forever.
- An astonishing Holocaust diary resurfaces.
- A brief Halloween history of pets in costumes.
- The medievalist who fought Nazis with history.
- A new museum opens old wounds in Germany.
- FDA targets website that mails abortion pills to women.
- Why England once forced everyone to be buried in wool.
- Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination.
- Dissection, emotion, and the public good in 19th-century surgery.
- “Healthstorian” travels Virginia in vintage camper capturing history.