Articles
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How Anti-Vaccine Ideology Crosses the Political Spectrum
Vaccinations have not been a major issue in the 2016 presidential campaign so far, but…
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New York Grandmother Seeks Democratic Presidential Nomination! Ellen McCormack (1926-2011)
No, not that one! Exactly forty years before Hillary Clinton’s historic run and nomination, Ellen…
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Pictures of an Institution: Birth Records at Old Blockley
On September 22, 1859, 30-year-old Margaret Merchant of Philadelphia was admitted to the obstetrical ward…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A brief history of…
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Playwright Alice Eve Cohen Asks Us to Reconsider What We Think We Know about Pregnancy and Motherhood
“What makes a mother real?” asks writer and performer Alice Eve Cohen in her newly-published…
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Teaching in an Era of Black Lives Matter
One of the functions of social movements is to raise consciousness around a particular problem…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Romance and radium. The…
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Disproving Self-Indulgence: Congenital Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century
On October 10, 1989, police arrived at the Medical University of South Carolina. They handcuffed…
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Venus Revisited
“Creepy.” “Weird.” “Messed. Up.” Such are the visceral responses of my women’s history students to…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The maladies of midwives.…
