Articles
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“No-Tell Motels”: Abortion in Pre-Roe South Carolina
“Charleston was the place to come before Roe v. Wade, for abortions.” Reminiscing about illegal…
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It’s Not You, It’s Me: #MeToo in Academia
It was Friday, and I was indulging myself at the prepared foods bar at Whole…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The testosterone myth. Rube…
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New Medical Tourism on St. Kitts
The late William Halford of Southern Illinois University’s School of Medicine spent his life developing…
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Remembering the Mothers of Gynecology: Deirdre Cooper Owens’ Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Antebellum physician James Marion Sims has been in the news quite a bit lately as…
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Understanding My Past after #MeToo
[gblockquote source=”Kyle Stephens (survivor of Dr. Larry Nassar)”]Little girls don’t stay little forever. They grow…
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Dying to Heal: Women and Syphilis in Colonial Lima, Peru
In the early modern world, syphilis victims suffered through four stages of disease over a…
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“Shock from Loss”: The Reality of Grief in the First World War
On October 24, 1918, fifty-eight-year-old Elizabeth was admitted to the City of London Mental Hospital…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Titillating toes. Guns in…
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Mary Seacole: Disease and Care of the Wounded, from Jamaica to the Crimea
While Florence Nightingale is legendary in the history of nursing because of her foundational role…
