In 2022 the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, putting safe and legal abortion on the chopping block around the […]
Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Dying Before Germ Theory
As RFK questions germ theory, and measles ravages unvaccinated children, Americans need to know what is at risk. Americans died […]
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 […]
Interview with Nursing Clio Prize 2024 Honorable Mention Cara Delay
For Nursing Clio’s fifth annual best article prize competition, we awarded an honorable mention to Cara Delay, Professor in Women’s […]
The US Department of Health and Human Services: Its Importance in the Past and Present
We, as historians of medicine, express our support for the federal agencies and regulations that protect and promote human health. […]
