Added on April 3, 2024 Historical essay Fetal Remains, Knowledge, and the Making of Early Modern Monsters In 1734, scholars at France’s Royal Academy of Medicine encountered something unique: a tiny, nearly perfect replica of a fetus […]
Added on February 21, 2023 Historical essay A Tale of Two Deaths: Chronic Illness, Race, and the Medicalization of Suicide On a Thursday morning in 1726, French colonial officials in Pondichéry – France’s principal colonial holding on India’s southeastern coast […]
Added on May 17, 2022 Historical essay Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry Jacques Albert, the surgeon-major of Pondichéry, India, probably thought that Marie Cuperly was “good for it” when it came to […]