Articles
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Under Victorian microscopes. When…
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Health Care in Colonial Peruvian Convents
Last May I had the opportunity to conduct archival research in Arequipa, Peru. I went…
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The Weight of the Presidency
In early January, President Trump had a physical exam at Walter Reed Army Medical Center,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Selling American vigor. Every…
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Medicina/Medicine: A Special Nursing Clio Series on Latin America and the Caribbean
When I started writing for Nursing Clio in late 2014, I was excited to bring…
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Gender, Health, & Marginalization: National Responses to HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and Jamaica
After conducting Fulbright research on the cultural politics of HIV/AIDS in Jamaican women’s lives, I…
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Explicit: Censorship, Sexology, and Sexuality in Independent Ireland
When the Irish Free State created the Censorship of Publications Board in 1929, they were…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Treating the influenza in…
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“Instruction which she should avoid”: Reflections on 1830s Theater Manager Thomas Hamblin in the #MeToo Era
In June 1838, actress Josephine Clifton canceled an engagement in Lexington, KY and rushed back…
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“There Had Been No Penetration:” Male Surgeons’ Roles in Defining Rape in Eighteenth-Century England
In July of 1715, when Mary Marsh was asked about the details of her rape,…