Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, a number of historians of medicine and other scholars have written and given interviews about […]
Going Baroque for Babies
A few months ago, a friend and I were chatting about plans for a baby shower that she was hosting […]
Medical Metaphors: The Long History of the Corrupted Body Politic
For the past few years, my Facebook feed has been full of political memes. Quite a few critique or satirize […]
Public Theater and Health Care in the Early Modern Spanish World
In May of 1646, don Duarte Fernando Álvarez de Toledo Portugal, the Viceroy of the Kingdom of Valencia, wrote a […]
