Articles
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Race and Early American Medical Schools: Review of Christopher D.E. Willoughby’s Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools
In 2017, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts announced that it would stop…
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Have Leprosy, Will Travel: A Case of Early Modern Medical Tourism
On the tropical beach of a remote island, a group of ailing Europeans was spread…
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Announcing the Nursing Clio Writers-in-Residence Program
Since 2012, Nursing Clio has been at the forefront of sharing histories of gender, medicine, and disability…
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Collaboration: A Margaret Bingham Stillwell Imprint
“I had a succession of Trustees who treated me vaguely but graciously in a Victorian…
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Men and Women Can (and Should) Be Friends in the Modern Workplace
As a teenager, I loved the film When Harry Met Sally and would watch it…
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On Football, War, and Trauma
There are few things more precious to Buffalonians than their football team. Not only do…
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Eugenics Was Wrong Even When It Got It Right
Ann Leary’s 2022 novel The Foundling follows a young white woman, Mary Engle, who in…
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I am a survivor: Childhood Sexual Abuses Collections & the Archives
“I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse,” are words that lend themselves to whispers…
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Disability (and) Politics: The Fetterman Fiasco of Fall 2022
In Fall 2022, conservative pundits condemned Senator-elect John Fetterman (D-PA), who had survived a stroke…
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Dental Work and Colonoscopies, for Someone Who Used to Always Say OK
Content warning: This piece discusses parent-child sexual abuse, coercion, and addiction. Nobody likes getting a…