Articles
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Sunday Mourning Medicine
Please donate to the following organizations, if you can: Unicorn Riot The Bail Project Reclaim…
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Reconsidering How We Die
I arrived home ready to relax and watch The Crown after an intense work day,…
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BMI, Race, and Bodies: How Race Science Reemerges in the Unlikeliest of Places
The connection between Black female bodies and ill health, fatness, and inferiority marks the historical…
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COVID-19 Didn’t Break the Food System. Hunger Was Already Here.
Like everything else in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, American food has become almost…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Pear power. Female husbands.…
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Weaving Wool into Death: Burial in 17th-Century England
The rituals we use to honor someone in death often reflect the way that they…
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Understanding Her Position and Place: An African American Nurse at the Stewart Indian School, 1908-1917
In September 1908, Allie Helena Barnett left her family in Atchison, Kansas, and traveled to…
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A Complete Halt to the Liquor Traffic: Drink and Disease in the 1918 Epidemic
When the annual Pennsylvania convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) began on October…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Our mothers, before us.…
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What to Expect When You’re Expiring: Pregnancy and Death in Seventeenth-Century England
On October 12, 1622, a 26-year-old English woman named Elizabeth Jocelin gave birth to her…
