Articles
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A Perspective on Patienthood
“The patient.” I hate that term. I hate to write about “the patient,” I hate…
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Rediscovering “Good” and “Bad” Heads in the Phrenological Present
It’s always a little exciting when your research area shows up in the news, especially…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Decolonizing DNA. The ghosts…
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Nursing Justice: Filipino Immigrant Nurse Activism in the United States
When you think about trailblazing women in American nursing history, do Filipino nurses come to…
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Honor to Us All: What Trans Men Gained and Lost in Mulan (2020)
My parents took me to see Mulan for my ninth birthday. Appropriately for someone raised…
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Signing for Life: Deaf Gay Activists Navigate the AIDS Epidemic, 1986–1991
Before a small crowd of journalists at San Diego’s Point Loma Hospital, through sign language…
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Nursing for Generations: Kiowa Peoplehood in the Work of Laura Pedrick
When smallpox erupted across the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation in 1900, local people began…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Defunding the (drug) police.…
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Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail and Histories of Native American Nursing
I first encountered Susie Yellowtail (Crow) in a July 1934 letter in which a physician…
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Food Media, Gender, and Power: An Interview with Emily Contois
Emily J. H. Contois has been researching masculinity in American diet culture for over a…
