Articles
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Police Brutality, Mental Illness, and Race in the Age of Mass Incarceration
On November 9, 2014, two Ann Arbor police officers shot and killed Aura Rosser, a…
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Obergefell Made History, and History Made Obergefell
History matters. Sober and sophisticated historical research can make a difference in the world. I…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of the…
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Pregnancy, Fear, and Conformity
Last fall, while in the midst of a severe head cold and four months pregnant,…
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Don’t Eat That, Eat This: The Troubled History of Food Stamps and Nutrition
Lately, it seems like everywhere I turn I see discussions about how poor people use…
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The Sleepers
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Gendering Reefer Madness. The…
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A Doctor, a Patient, a Rash, and Google
Don’t you hate it when you can’t get your doctor to agree with your own…
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The International History of Women’s Medical Education: What Does Imperialism Have To Do With It?
For the past several years, this 1885 photograph of three medical students who attended the…
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Obergefell v. Hodges, Marriage Equality, and the Making of Global Queer History
One morning in late June, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue its history-making decision in…
