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 […]
The Abdominal Exam
Unless we’re toiling away in an English PhD program, most of us don’t pause in our daily lives to read […]
New York, 60 Years Later: Sexual Health and Coming of Age in The Bell Jar and Netflix’s Master of None
Master of None, the new Netflix TV show created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang (best known for their work […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 54 years of the Pill on the NHS. How […]
Abortion in Ireland: The More Things Change…
Last month, a handful of Irish women and men left Dublin on a unique bus tour. For two days, they […]
Baby Parts for Sale — Old Tropes Revisited
When Robert Lewis Dear Jr. was finally taken into custody after opening fire on a Colorado Springs, Colorado Planned Parenthood […]
