Articles
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Alvenia Fulton, Soul Food, and Black Liberation: An Interview with Travis Weisse
For the first annual Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article, honorable mention went to…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Party and protest. A…
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Straightened Up and Dying Right? Queering Puritan Deathbeds
When I was ten, I was present at a close family friend’s deathbed, an experience…
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Such a Pretty Tsaritsa
In her 2018 memoir Such A Pretty Girl, Nadina LaSpina describes her childhood in mid-twentieth…
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Farmers’ Almanacs and Folk Remedies: The Role of Almanacs in Nineteenth-Century Popular Medicine
The Farmer’s Almanac has always been a staple book in my grandmother’s rural North Carolina…
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A Different Kind of Expert
In the spring of 1813, Abigail Adams wrote to her friend Julia Rush inquiring after…
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Makers of Living, Breathing History: The Material Culture of Homemade Facemasks
Ten days into shelter-in-place orders after my kids’ schools closed, my family and I gathered…
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Talking Back to the NIH
In January 2018, Serena Williams went public about how she almost died after giving birth…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Votes for colonized women.…
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Death before Birth: Pregnancy Loss and Funerals in England
A pregnancy loss is a site of tension, situated between waiting for the baby, the…
