Academic nursing has long operated under a legacy of deference: to medicine, to institutional hierarchy, to structures that reward order […]
The Strange Case of Henrietta Wiley: A Habitual Drunkard’s Journey Through Guardianship and the Asylum
In the 1880s, a court declared that Henrietta Wiley – a wealthy New York heiress and socialite – was a […]
Can a King be Disabled? Leprosy, Power, and Colonialism in an Indonesian Sultan’s Portrait
A middle-aged, mustached man dressed in a luxuriously decorated jacket and with a thick golden chain across his chest looks […]
It’s Here! The Nursing Clio Reader Is Available Now!
Today, Nursing Clio publishes its first book, The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice, with Rutgers University […]
Twist and Shout: Music, Race, and Medical Moralization
This upcoming November, Black American singer and dancer Chubby Checker will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of […]
“Unseen: Inequality in Medicine” at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden
The medical field has long treated the 70 kg white male body as the norm — an assumption that continues […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
Are We Becoming Ivan Drago? Analyzing Today’s Fitness Tech through Rocky IV
In Rocky IV (1985), American Rocky Balboa fights the USSR’s Ivan Drago in a boxing match that animates Cold War […]
