Articles
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Joking in the Time of Pandemic: The 1889–92 Flu and 2020 COVID-19
As we see with COVID-19, the darkest periods in history expose the best — and…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Managing melancholy. A history…
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Between a Soft Rock and a Hard Place: A Review of Karen Tongson’s Why Karen Carpenter Matters
Early in her new book Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson reports that a karaoke…
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An Imperfect Abortion Story
It’s probably not normal to fantasize about a better, less complicated abortion story, but since…
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Plague in the Age of Twitter
I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter over the past week. Some evenings,…
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What to Read in a Pandemic
Nursing Clio editors and writers share their favorite books on disease, social anxiety, and resilience…
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Sperm Donor Siblings Speak Their Truths
In Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin, sociologists…
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Making a Ruckus: Considering The Goop Lab
The six-episode series, The Goop Lab, launched in January on Netflix aiming to “explore ideas…
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How the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Gave Working Women a Place to Breathe
In September of 1909, San Francisco’s businessmen opened the latest issue of the Merchants’ Association…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news How pandemics change history…