Articles
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Dying to Heal: Women and Syphilis in Colonial Lima, Peru
In the early modern world, syphilis victims suffered through four stages of disease over a…
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“Shock from Loss”: The Reality of Grief in the First World War
On October 24, 1918, fifty-eight-year-old Elizabeth was admitted to the City of London Mental Hospital…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Titillating toes. Guns in…
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Mary Seacole: Disease and Care of the Wounded, from Jamaica to the Crimea
While Florence Nightingale is legendary in the history of nursing because of her foundational role…
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Canned Food History: A Conversation with Anna Zeide
Recently, I had my students in Food in American Society and Culture try their hand…
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#MarielleFrancoPresente
On the evening of Wednesday, March 14, Marielle Franco — the thirty-eight-year-old human-rights activist, feminist,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Disasters have histories. A…
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The Politics of Sobreparto: Beyond the Medical Dimensions of a Postpartum Condition
Migrant indigenous Andean women living in the lowland Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la…
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What Would Philippe Pinel Do? Old and New Understandings of Mental Illness
I was intrigued when, on February 1, 2018, I heard the journalist and author Johann…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Secrets of a brothel…
