Articles
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All Memorials are Political — Just Ask the Homeopaths
Over this past summer, I spent about two weeks on a research trip in Washington…
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What’s on Your Feminist Playlist?
Music played a pretty important role in my life as a kid, but I always…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 5 forgotten wives. Revisiting…
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Premature Birth and the Right to Grieve
There are quite a few ways to experience loss of pregnancy. When I was expecting…
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Average-looking Married Couples Having Caring, Respectful Sex
A friend of mine recently lamented that when he sat his teenage son down to…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The torrid history of…
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Placentophagy Isn’t New, But It Has Changed
Over the last several years, placentophagy has slowly crept into that vicious public media arena…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A glimpse of 1930s…
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Elizabeth Blackwell in the Digital World
You’ve probably heard of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in the United States to earn…
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Exploding Myths About Medicine’s Wage Gap: Lessons From the Past and Present
It’s not news that women are paid less than men for comparable work, subject to…