Culinary rapeseed oil – or canola oil – is a staple in many parts of the world. It has a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gone to China: Risk and Reward in the Travel Diaries of Martha Foster Crawford
Martha Foster Crawford thought that she would literally die. Hagiographical stories of missionary wives who had succumbed in the foreign […]
A Good Death: The Modern Hospice Movement
“She was at home, this is where she wanted to be. It wasn’t easy, but it was right.” He said […]
Through the Lens of Dance Medicine: Shared Identity in Patient-Provider Relationships
Does a diabetes educator need to be a person with diabetes to provide quality services to a patient? Does a […]
Mystery, Adventure, Gender, and Medicine
If Nursing Clio were a work of historical fiction set in England in the early 19th century, it would be […]
How Louis Ziskind Helped Deinstitutionalize Mental Healthcare
Perched among the lumpy hills and modest cottages of Los Angeles’s Echo Park, a hospital sits. You would not expect […]
