A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 19th century marriage manuals. Advertising tuberculosis cures. Dolly Madison’s […]
All Memorials are Political — Just Ask the Homeopaths
Over this past summer, I spent about two weeks on a research trip in Washington D.C. I decided to take […]
What’s on Your Feminist Playlist?
Music played a pretty important role in my life as a kid, but I always listened to what my parents […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news 5 forgotten wives. Revisiting the cow killer. The politics […]
Premature Birth and the Right to Grieve
There are quite a few ways to experience loss of pregnancy. When I was expecting my own daughter, no woman […]
Average-looking Married Couples Having Caring, Respectful Sex
A friend of mine recently lamented that when he sat his teenage son down to have “The Talk,” he had […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The torrid history of absinthe. Things historians can’t live […]
Placentophagy Isn’t New, But It Has Changed
Over the last several years, placentophagy has slowly crept into that vicious public media arena known as “the Mommy Wars.” […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A glimpse of 1930s Paris. A cultural history of […]
Elizabeth Blackwell in the Digital World
You’ve probably heard of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in the United States to earn a medical degree, but did […]
