On Monday, September 22, President Trump, flanked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stated that pregnant women should not […]
Risky Publishing in a Risk-Averse Profession
Academic nursing has long operated under a legacy of deference: to medicine, to institutional hierarchy, to structures that reward order […]
Hidden Casualties
In the early pre-dawn hours of May 21, 2025, the House passed H.R.1, also referred to as the ‘One Big […]
Miscarriage is a Crime Again
In 1650, a young, single English servant named Anne Greene miscarried into the privy and did not tell anyone. We […]
Our Bodies, Our Decisions: A Response to Andrew Sullivan’s NYT Essay
In a recent New York Times, author Andrew Sullivan, a conservative British-American political commentator and former editor of The New […]
Miasma Theory: A Primer
I recently received an unusual request—could I explain miasma theory to an NPR reporter? Miasma theory is suddenly newsworthy, roughly […]
Last Resorts
In May 2014, Sandy Bem, a Cornell psychology professor known for her pioneering research on the social construction of gender, […]
Another Year, Another Body Part
This is a story of how, as a historian of medicine, my own aging has affected my sense of my […]
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 […]
Neurodivergence is Not a Moral Defect
Mere hours after the Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services on February 13, […]
