Articles
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“Tampon Tim” and the Politics of Periods
“Tampon Tim,” Stephen Miller sneered, referring to the legislation Governor Tim Walz signed requiring schools…
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Call in the Midwife: Gendered Medical Knowledge and Colonial Intermediaries in French India
On October 29th, 1743 at seven o’clock in the morning in the city of Pondichéry–a…
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Through the Lens of Dance Medicine: Shared Identity in Patient-Provider Relationships
Does a diabetes educator need to be a person with diabetes to provide quality services…
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Mystery, Adventure, Gender, and Medicine
If Nursing Clio were a work of historical fiction set in England in the early…
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How Louis Ziskind Helped Deinstitutionalize Mental Healthcare
Perched among the lumpy hills and modest cottages of Los Angeles’s Echo Park, a hospital…
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Interview with Elizabeth Garner Masarik on her book, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024)
I got the chance to speak with historian Elizabeth Garner Masarik about her new book…
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“Mistreatment by Words and Blows”: Domestic Violence between Lived Realities and Colonial Meanings
The evidence of domestic violence in eighteenth-century Pondichéry – France’s former colony in South Asia…
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Disability Rights and the Lived Experiences of Visual Impairment in The Country of the Blind: An Interview with Andrew Leland
Andrew Leland’s 2023 book The Country of the Blind, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,…
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Silenced Suffering: The Historical and Contemporary Plight of Black Women with Uterine Fibroids
Fibroid Awareness Month – an annual observance to educate, inform, and raise awareness about uterine…
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Clio in Motion
It’s not fitness. It’s life. This is a marketing slogan of a high-end fitness center…