Articles
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Dear Sirs. Fear of…
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The Collective Power of Our Abortion Stories
“I had an abortion in 1999.” So begins Annie Finch’s important new anthology, Choice Words:…
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The Politics of Method: An Interview with Henry Cowles
“The scientific method does not exist. But ‘the scientific method’ does.” So begins Henry M.…
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Breastfeeding During War
The fireworks began at 7 pm, and my anxiety, already made worse by sleep deprivation,…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Did my grandmother vote?…
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Burying the Dead, and Then Digging Them Up
About a week after my partner Clayton was murdered in 2015, I went back to…
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Woman in Focus: Jessie Tarbox Beals
Had she never laid her eyes on a camera, Jessie Tarbox Beals might have made…
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Architecting a “New Normal”? Past Pandemics and the Medicine of Urban Planning
COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere. Months into the global pandemic, when many parts of the world…
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Fresh to Death: African Americans and RIP T-Shirts
My 28-year-old nephew, Willie Lee “Chill” Oglesby, Jr., was murdered on November 8, 2017. One…
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Weaponizing Weakness, Diagnosing by Gif
We’ve all seen the clips from President Trump’s commencement speech at the United States Military…
