Articles
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Pathologizing Politics: Eugenics and Political Discourse in the Modern United States
Carrie Buck was three months shy of her twenty-second birthday when she was forcibly sterilized…
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Eugenic Sperm
In 1974, a Los Angeles Times staff writer interviewed Dr. Donald Adler, a Beverly Hills…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The history of go-go…
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Suffering a Suffragist: An 1880s Romance
When Nursing Clio put out the call for the Romancing Clio series, I searched Goodreads…
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The Spaces of Screening: Tracing the Spatial Geographies of Mobile Mammography from Carparks to the Cosmos
In 2019, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) launched a new cancer detection initiative. In this…
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Where a Pregnancy Can Last for Years: The Remarkable Colonial Reports of Sleeping Pregnancies in the Maghreb
A couple patiently waits for a healthy child after a pregnancy that has lasted several…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Darwin in love. A…
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Love in the Ton: Georgette Heyer’s Legacy in Regency Romance World-Building
Georgette Heyer is widely considered to be the pioneer of the Regency romance. From 1921…
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“Kiss Via Kerchief”: Influenza Warnings in 1918
Just over one hundred years ago, New York Health Commissioner Royal S. Copeland responded to…
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“There’s Only One Way This War Ends”: New Ways of Telling a Familiar Story in Sam Mendes’s 1917
In the spring of 1917, the German Army was recouping from enormous losses suffered at…
