Anatomy – Nursing Clio

Added on September 5, 2019 Killing Clio

The Postmortem Life of Anton Probst: Philadelphia’s First Mass Murderer

On the morning of June 7, 1866, Henry Leffmann, a first-year medical student at Jefferson Medical College, arrived at Philadelphia’s […]

Six men stand at a table where a newborn child, whose umbilical cord is connected to placenta on the table. The strand is held by the professor Ruysch. On the far right is a boy who wears the skeleton of a child on a wooden base.

Added on October 3, 2018 Pregnancy Loss

Anatomy of Generation

Before the advent of modern technologies like the ultrasound, miscarried and aborted fetuses provided some of the very few glimpses […]

A doomy room with shelves exhibiting wax head statures

Added on January 24, 2017 Culture

“Witness the ‘Wall of Genitals’”: Anatomical Display at Brooklyn’s House of Wax

Located in the lobby of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Brooklyn, the House of Wax is a dimly lit bar […]

An artifact of Venus lying in a display cabinet, with her organs exposed

Added on August 16, 2016 Historical essay

Venus Revisited

“Creepy.” “Weird.” “Messed. Up.” Such are the visceral responses of my women’s history students to an admittedly bizarre and complex […]