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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The beautiful brain. Indispensable…
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Prison Cells and Pretty Walls: Gender Coding and American Schools
A few months ago, I was scrolling through Twitter and saw a conversation about redesigning…
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The Obstetrician Who Cried “White Privilege”
In December of 2016, I wrote an essay for Nursing Clio called Nurse-Midwives are With…
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Why It’s Bad When It’s “Not That Bad”
When then-Senator Al Franken was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women this past November,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of hair…
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Hospital Confinement: From the 19th Century to the 21st
Last summer I had a very different experience of childbirth than most women. I was…
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Are Our Genes Really Our Fate? DNA’s Visual Culture and the Construction of Genetic Truth
The direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andme has recently been described by journalist Erika Check Hayden…
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“Weaponized Babies”; or, Damn, Why Didn’t I Think of Using That Term?
News that Senator Tammy Duckworth brought her baby to the Senate floor for a vote…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news What’s a museum? How…
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Public Theater and Health Care in the Early Modern Spanish World
In May of 1646, don Duarte Fernando Álvarez de Toledo Portugal, the Viceroy of the…
