Articles
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When Did We Get So Hormonal? An Interview with Randi Hutter Epstein
Randi Hutter Epstein’s new book, Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About…
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The Dangerous Price of Diabetes: Not What the Pioneering Researchers Predicted
The 1921 discovery of insulin ushered in a new era in endocrinology. Canadian researchers transformed…
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I Was Trolled – Here’s Why I’m Turning It into a Teaching Opportunity
Here’s what happened. I wrote an essay critically analyzing a YouTube talk show I actually…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of desserts.…
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Whence Liberty? The Retirement of Anthony Kennedy
On June 27, 2018, at the end of Pride month, I was visiting my family…
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From Mooktie to Juan: The Eugenic Origins of the “Defective Immigrant”
On a Monday in November 1905, a “little deaf and dumb … 10-year old Eurasian…
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Sex, Death, and Atole at the Royal Indian Hospital
Mexico City, 18th Century For the wounded, diseased, and ailing of Mexico City, just about…
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Deconstructing the Stonewall Myth (Brick by Brick)
If you’ve been on social media at all during the month of June, you’ve probably…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of hospice.…
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“The Sickness”: Schooling, Separation, and Sociality in Southern Guyana
As soon as I began my fieldwork in Guyana in July of 2014, I started…
