On September 14, Dawn Wooten, a former nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, filed a whistleblower […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news It’s time for a Latino museum. Mad dogs and […]
Garbage Bags and Tomato Cans: The History of Nurses Making Basic Equipment Out of Trash
In spring 2020, images of nurses treating patients while wearing garbage bags instead of standard disposable gowns symbolized both the […]
A Perspective on Patienthood
“The patient.” I hate that term. I hate to write about “the patient,” I hate to talk about “the patient.” […]
Rediscovering “Good” and “Bad” Heads in the Phrenological Present
It’s always a little exciting when your research area shows up in the news, especially when your work inclines to […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Decolonizing DNA. The ghosts of segregation. The battle of […]
Nursing Justice: Filipino Immigrant Nurse Activism in the United States
When you think about trailblazing women in American nursing history, do Filipino nurses come to mind? Probably not. But they […]
Honor to Us All: What Trans Men Gained and Lost in Mulan (2020)
My parents took me to see Mulan for my ninth birthday. Appropriately for someone raised as a girl, they bought […]
Signing for Life: Deaf Gay Activists Navigate the AIDS Epidemic, 1986–1991
Before a small crowd of journalists at San Diego’s Point Loma Hospital, through sign language and their interpreters, John Canady’s […]
Nursing for Generations: Kiowa Peoplehood in the Work of Laura Pedrick
When smallpox erupted across the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation in 1900, local people began to panic. Experienced Kiowa and […]
