Articles
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Weaving Wool into Death: Burial in 17th-Century England
The rituals we use to honor someone in death often reflect the way that they…
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Understanding Her Position and Place: An African American Nurse at the Stewart Indian School, 1908-1917
In September 1908, Allie Helena Barnett left her family in Atchison, Kansas, and traveled to…
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A Complete Halt to the Liquor Traffic: Drink and Disease in the 1918 Epidemic
When the annual Pennsylvania convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) began on October…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Our mothers, before us.…
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What to Expect When You’re Expiring: Pregnancy and Death in Seventeenth-Century England
On October 12, 1622, a 26-year-old English woman named Elizabeth Jocelin gave birth to her…
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Why We Need to Talk About Death Right Now
I can hear some of you say, “Can’t we talk about something more pleasant?” That’s…
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The Deathbed: A New Nursing Clio Series
This past fall, when we began work on a Nursing Clio series about death, we…
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Pandemic Academic: Mothering from the Home Office
Twelve years ago, Baby #2 fell asleep in her carseat on the way to the…
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The Cruise Ship as Disease Heterotopia
We know the images: cruise ships with sick passengers searching for a place to dock…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Art Activist Barbie. The…
