Articles
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Take Back the Net: Joy Rankin’s A People’s History of Computing in the United States
Should I post a tough parenting question on Twitter, ask my Facebook community, or email…
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Discovery, Interrupted
It was the third and final week of my first dissertation research trip. I’d spent…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Elizabeth I’s love life.…
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Quacks, Alternative Medicine, and the U.S. Army in the First World War
During the First World War, the Surgeon General received numerous pitches for miraculous cures for…
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“Remember—Don’t Drill a Hole in Your Head”: A Review of The Sawbones Book
The Sawbones Book: The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine is an adaptation of a…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of blood.…
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I Am a Professor in a Movie
Inspired by the “I am a ____ in a movie” phenomenon on Twitter where people…
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Feeling Grief: On Emotions in the Archive of Enslavement
In September, when an archivist at Fisk University asked me to help identify a ten-page…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Demented, happy, and useful.…
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Hallmark Christmas Movies: Guilty Pleasure or Feminist Rallying Cry?
A woman arrives in a small American town at Christmas time. Possibly her car has…
