A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of Peeps. A little mercurial history. The […]
“Considerable Grief”: Dead Bodies, Mortuary Science, and Repatriation after the Great War
In September 1919, Mary McKenney was forced to relive the horrors of her husband Arthur’s death. Sergeant Arthur McKenney was […]
Pharmacological Innovation and the Desire to Simplify Postpartum Depression
At the end of March, Sage Therapeutics announced FDA approval for the intravenous and hospital-supervised use of their new postpartum […]
Intersex Revolutionary War Hero Did Good Because Doctors Did No Harm
The startling knowledge that the Polish nobleman and military leader, Casimir Pulaski, a hero of the American Revolution, may have […]
What Does Gender Have to Do with the Desert?
Overheard in Grand Junction, Colorado on February 4, 2019 after Amy Irvine’s reading from her book, Desert Cabal: A New […]
The (Historical) Body in Pain
For the last decade, I’ve been reading and writing about other women’s pain. Contractions lasting 72 hours. Feverish deliriums after […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Cholera 101. Stonewall at 50. Call the (Roman) midwife. […]
Her Own Hero: How Self-Defense Became Acceptable for American Women
I was a seventeen-year-old college freshman when I realized I was being stalked. It started when a 27-year-old graduate student, […]
Historian Witches and Scientist Vampires: Can We Be Deborah Harkness When We Grow Up?
Historian-witches, vampire-scientists, and a world where you can get a tenure-track job at an Ivy and fancy fellowships at Oxford […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Herpes in space! Waitresses in 1916. London’s sewer king. […]
