Nursing Clio E.R. is a special series dedicated to addressing breaking news related to the problematic health policies and public […]
Is it Time to Abandon Motherhood? An Interview with Alex Bollen.
Alex Bollen, a UK-based postnatal practitioner, has recently published her first book, Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good […]
Neither Marine nor Maggot: Full Metal Jacket and the Crisis of Masculinity
In October 2024, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump stood before his gathered rally attendees and made a promise: he would build […]
RFK’s ideas about “wellness farms” for young people are eugenic and unconstitutional
Before he became Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted an idea about […]
Politics in Practice: A Review of Judith A. Houck, Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement (U Chicago Press, 2024)
In Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2024) Judith A. Houck provides a […]
Feminism in the Time of the Technological Womb
The artificial womb. The embryo outside the mother. Ectogenesis, if we’re being technical. I was first exposed to this exploratory […]
Challenging the “Great Man” Narrative: Imagining the Voices of Women in the History of Sex and Reproduction
Historians of marginalized groups face a common problem: the people about whom they want to write often did not leave […]
Interview with Nursing Clio Prize 2024 Honorable Mention Cara Delay
For Nursing Clio’s fifth annual best article prize competition, we awarded an honorable mention to Cara Delay, Professor in Women’s […]
‘The Moral Ideas of the Community’: Censorship and Irish-Catholic Nation Building
Though Ireland has never had an official state religion, Catholicism played a prominent role in shaping the nation during its […]
I’ll Be Right Here: Disability Intimacy & Medical Trauma in E.T.
Steven Spielberg’s 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was an integral part of my family’s classic movies, a list that also included […]
