A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Demented, happy, and useful.
- Acid and sexual psychonauts.
- How nurses learn to handle death.
- Black GIs in Saigon and “Soul Alley.”
- A cancer rap, thanks to Nina Simone.
- Who really built the first electric guitar?
- Tear gas and the U.S. border, a history.
- The women who made Edgar Allan Poe.
- How Americans tidied up before Marie Kondo.
- Woman gives herself a C-section, saves her baby.
- How Americans learned to condemn drunk driving.
- Speaking plainly about slavery in children’s books.
- What do doctors owe to the dead people they dissect?
- The culture of harassment in America’s medical schools.
- Black pioneers and the struggle for equality on the frontier.
- The politics of yellow fever in Alexander Hamilton’s America.
- Two women uncover their slave-owning ancestry, turn to reparations.