Painting, a young women sits bonneted in a bed with heavy curtains pulled aside, and an older white woman holds out a newborn in a white dress to a white man in a puritan-era black hat and fancy velvet jacket.

A Brief History of “Bouncing Back”

Intersex Revolutionary War Hero Did Good Because Doctors Did No Harm

A color painting depicting a man in expensive-looking black and white robes performing an anatomical lecture with an audience in the background and a partially disected human body on the table in the foreground. The teacher fiture is indicating a part of a standing human skeleton and has a large book open behind him.

Medical Metaphors: The Long History of the Corrupted Body Politic

The Body as Archive