Articles
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Farm to hospital bed.…
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“Our Dogged and Deadly Archnemesis”: A Review of Timothy C. Winegard’s The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
In 2015, mosquito-borne pathogens caused approximately 830,000 deaths worldwide. Malaria alone killed 435,000 people in…
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Mokgadi Caster Semenya v. The Patriarchy and its IAAF Minions
I am a woman and I am a world-class athlete. The IAAF will not drug…
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Sex Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Europe
Thanks to Liam Neeson and edgy action-thrillers like Taken, Americans have a pretty specific idea…
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Is a Historian’s Library an Archive or a Living Thing?
This week I purged my bookshelves. As a Ph.D. historian, it initially felt like a…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news An oral history of…
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Will Technology Change How We Understand Interpersonal Violence? Maybe. Probably Not.
The Atlantic’s August cover story by Barbara Bradley Hagerty, “An Epidemic of Disbelief,” describes how…
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Historical Fanfiction as Affective History Making
I became a historian because of a television show. That is something I don’t often…
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Thomsonianism Meets Juice Cleanses
I will be the first to admit that I love juices. They’re colorful, full of…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Prehistoric baby bottles. Black…
