The geometrical triptychs American Indian artist Mary Sully (1896-1963) crafted on paper, crayon, gilt, and ink render early twentieth-century American […]
Medical Misogyny and Marketing Addiction: How the Nineteenth-Century Patent Medicine Industry Exploited Women
Today, nearly half of young American women report negative interactions with healthcare providers. Research suggests that these experiences contribute to […]
Marked: Birthmarks and Historical Myths of Maternal Responsibility
“You ate a lot of strawberries when you were pregnant with that baby, didn’t you?” When I was a child, […]
A New Film about Ida Craddock: An Interview with the Director
A new docu-drama about reproductive freedom and women’s rights, Sex Radical chronicles the life of Ida Craddock (1857-1902), a feminist, […]
Transatlantic Diagnostics: A Tale of Divergences in the History of Autism
A comparative analysis of how France and the United States have scientifically investigated autism over the course of the later […]
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 […]
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 […]
Understaffing and Underperformance: A Cautionary Tale from the Veterans Health Administration’s Troubled Past
In March 2025, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced its goal to lay off over fifteen percent of […]
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 […]
