Articles
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Let’s Say “Happy Holidays” and Share Hope, Joy, and Light in the Darkness
“Merry Christmas!” It was the standard December greeting in the New Jersey town where I…
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Creating Battle Signs: Iraq/Afghanistan War Veterans, Art Therapy, and Rehabilitation
During my first research trip to the National Archives in College Park I stayed with…
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Black Nurse, White Milk: Wet Nursing and Slavery in Brazil
In 1888, Brazil became the last country to abolish slavery in the Western hemisphere. The…
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#MeToo and the Massage Envy Scandal: Looking Back and Beyond
“Massage brings all the weirdos out of the woodwork. I mean real sick people who…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The Nazi anatomists. White…
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I Think I Love You: Life, Death, and the Enduring Legacy of David Cassidy Fever
On May 30, 1974, 14-year-old Bernadette Whelan died after lingering in a coma for four…
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Pathology in Perspective: Wartime Specimen Collecting and the Case of Private Hurdis’ Skull
Rarely does a debate about the bones of soldiers collected during World War I enter…
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On Doors Open and Shut: Sex and Power Yet Again
One day last week, literally as I sat down in a shared meeting room to…
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Nursing Clio (still) Supports Net Neutrality
The FCC is about to vote to end net neutrality — breaking the fundamental principle…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news To make Hippocras, a…
