A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The fit flapper. Slaying the rubella dragon. Subversive flour […]
The Young and the Gangrenous
Bandages, Blood, and Bickering, Oh My! A Civil War is brewing within the walls of Mansion House Hospital, the setting […]
Of Rifles and Responsibility: How Can We Speak to Each Other Across the Gun Control Divide?
As a kid, I loved shooting a rifle with my uncle, out back at my grandmother’s farmhouse. My dad and […]
Love, Death, and Human Rights: A View from Rio de Janeiro
My partner Clayton was murdered while riding his motorcycle home from work on April 28, 2015. He was followed by […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The lesbian gaze of “Carol.” “Terrorism” in the Early […]
Sex and Gender in a Petri Dish
The HeLa cell line, infamously derived in 1951 from the tumor of Henrietta Lacks, was cultured and immortalized to provide […]
Whipped: An Editor, a Lady, and the (Not So) Humorous History of Women’s Anger
In 1859, the popular men’s magazine The National Police Gazette, known for its coverage of sport, saucy ladies, and other […]
Nursing Clio’s Best of 2015!
With acknowledgments to our friends at Tropics of Meta who thought of the idea first, here are Nursing Clio’s “best […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A very interesting history of passports. A homosexual Christmas […]
Farewell 2015, We’re on Vacation until the New Year
Nursing Clio will be on break until January to work on some new and exciting plans for 2016 — and […]
