Articles
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Learning to Love Science: Rebecca Onion’s Innocent Experiments and the History of an American Cultural Tradition
As a child, did your parents encourage you to participate in a science fair? Perhaps…
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Nurse-Midwives are With Women, Walking a Middle Path to a Safe and Rewarding Birth
In childbirth politics as in all politics, extreme viewpoints make the news, and sensible centrists…
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Protesting the ERA
Like many of my fellow Americans, I was glued to the television on election night.…
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Mary, Did You Know?: An Essay on Christmas Carols, Medical History, and Reproductive Politics
The Christmas season is a curious time for a historian of women’s health, abortion, and…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The artificial kidney. Poison…
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Emotion and Fantasy: Marcus Garvey and a Blueprint for Modern Protest Movements
Here’s a trivia question: what was the largest African American organization in history? Hint: It…
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The Black Panthers’ and Tom Hayden’s Lessons to the White Left in an Age of Trump
I often receive inquiries from white and non-black folks about how they can get involved…
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On Feeding My Husband with Cancer
I am both a historian of medicine and a practicing physician. This sometimes throws into…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of black…
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More Than Sponges: Children’s Letters to Presidents and “Go Back to Africa”
Standing Rock. #BlackLivesMatter. Periods for Pence. Women’s March on Washington. Political demonstrations have dominated the…
