Articles
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Finding My Amputee Brethren
I remember vividly the first amputee I met after my amputation. Driving down with my…
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Option Whatever: The Corporatization of Grief in Sheryl Sandberg’s Option B
Two years ago, my husband Clayton was murdered. That summer, I wrote a lot in…
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The “Right” and “Wrong” Kind of Addict: Iatrogenic Opioid Addiction in Historical Context
Last year, Kelly McEvers of NPR’s Embedded podcast introduced us to Joy. Something about Joy…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The need for a…
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Handmaids, Hospitals, and The Pageantry of the Newborn Nursery Window
Sixteen minutes into the second episode of Hulu’s new Handmaid’s Tale, Offred (Elizabeth Moss), having…
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Was the Founding Generation Right to Worry?
On February 13, 2017, thirty-five physicians signed a letter to the New York Times that…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Live alone like it’s…
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A Quiet Inquisition
When Delma Rosa Gómez was 27 years old, she was diagnosed with advanced stages of…
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NC Supports Net Neutrality
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The First Communion Dress: Fashion, Faith, and the Feminization of Catholic Ireland
In late 2012 the Irish Times and National Museum of Ireland selected the Roman Catholic…
