I dislike the term “able-bodied.” I see this term used frequently in academic and activist scholarship, as well as everyday […]

I dislike the term “able-bodied.” I see this term used frequently in academic and activist scholarship, as well as everyday […]
Every so often, some viral article or other will declare that science “proves” or “confirms” that intelligence is inherited from […]
In December 1943 Colonel Derrick Vail, ophthalmologist and consultant to the Army Medical Department in Europe, wrote in a memo: […]
On October 20, 2014, Renée Zellweger attended the Elle Women in Hollywood event, her first appearance in the public eye […]
In February of 1915, a fifty-five year old woman, who we will call Ella, was admitted to London’s Colney Hatch […]
On August 5, the World News Daily Report published an article that has been circulating on my Facebook newsfeed every […]
“Try squirting milk on that.” I stopped keeping track of how many times someone recommended healing my newborn’s ailments with […]
America’s oldest public hospital started as a tiny, one-room infirmary in a New York City almshouse in 1736. Two hundred […]
When my grandmother died from a mucosal melanoma (a form of skin cancer) in 2015, I sat around with my […]
Eugenics is still a dirty word. It makes us think about science gone horribly wrong. It reminds us of the […]
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