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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Etsy’s vaginal problem. Trump’s…
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I May Not Heal, But I Will Live Better Thanks to Occupational Therapy
Last year I learned how to chop a carrot with my eyes closed. While being…
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Itinerant Tacos: A Brief History of Tortilla Factories
The squeaky wheels, the baking corn masa, and the silver behemoth carrying golden circles on…
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HIV in Brazil: Health and Human Rights in a Global Context
The fight over the future of the ACA here in the U.S. has made me…
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The Black Politics of Eugenics
Eugenics is still a dirty word. It makes us think about science gone horribly wrong.…
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NC at the Berks
Nursing Clio is out in force at this year’s Berkshire Conference of Women Historians in…
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Lady Mellanby’s Dental Utopia
Nearly all of us have dealt with dental caries — better known as cavities —…
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The Girl and the Grotto: Remembering and Forgetting in Irish History
Walking home from school on a frigid day in January 1984, two Irish boys came…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Australian pirates in Japan.…
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A Lesson in Protest: Teaching History and Citizenship in the Trump Era
This semester I am teaching a course called “Resisting State Violence: Race, Policing, and Social…