Articles
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On the Academic Job Market
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What’s Truly Outrageous About Intersex?
On August 5, the World News Daily Report published an article that has been circulating…
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A Boy or A Girl? Sex Selection, Regimen, and Fertility in Ancient Greece
Selecting the sex of an embryo brings up a host of ethical, economic, and political…
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A Historian’s Trip to the Graveyard
bardo, noun (In Tibetan Buddhism) a state of existence between death and rebirth, varying in…
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Real Men & Real Food: The Cultural Politics of Male Weight Loss
When Weight Watchers first launched an online program “customized just for guys” in 2007, one…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Reclaiming stolen history. Salvador…
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The Magic Liquid that Guarantees the Life of the Infant: Breast Milk as a Superfood
“Try squirting milk on that.” I stopped keeping track of how many times someone recommended…
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Book Review: Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital
America’s oldest public hospital started as a tiny, one-room infirmary in a New York City…
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Care Gone Wrong: Bad Moms, Fake Disabilities, and Imagined Illnesses
At first, it seemed impossible that Gypsy Rose Blancharde had murdered her mother. Dee Dee…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news On embryos and spin.…
