Articles
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Lady Mellanby’s Dental Utopia
Nearly all of us have dealt with dental caries — better known as cavities —…
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The Girl and the Grotto: Remembering and Forgetting in Irish History
Walking home from school on a frigid day in January 1984, two Irish boys came…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Australian pirates in Japan.…
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A Lesson in Protest: Teaching History and Citizenship in the Trump Era
This semester I am teaching a course called “Resisting State Violence: Race, Policing, and Social…
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A Healthy Dose of Skepticism
The FDA is on a mission to redefine healthy, and they “want to get it…
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Mail-Order Abortion: A History (and a Future?)
In early November of 2016, while the upcoming election dominated media in all its forms,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Archiving weather data. Quackery…
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100,000 Women in Trafalgar Square: Remembering The Forgotten Women’s March of 1979
On January 21 this year, thousands of people rallied in central London in solidarity with…
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The Pre-History of the Paleo Diet
Dr. Loren Cordain describes himself as the “world’s foremost authority on the evolutionary basis of…
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War Art 100 Years Later: The “World War I and American Art” Exhibit and the Centenary of the Great War
On March 12, I attended the exhibit “World War I and American Art” at the…
