“You’re lucky, then, that your mom died before all this began,” my friend said. “At least you got to be […]
Black Before Florence: Black Nurses, Enslaved Labor, and the British Royal Navy, 1790–1820
Throughout the eighteenth century, the British Royal Navy embarked on a scheme of hospital construction in the Atlantic World. The […]
The Rejected Ones: Indian Foundlings in Colonial Portuguese Goa
In September of 1747, Rosa de Menezes went into labor in her home in the poorest quarter of Goa, the […]
Changing the Narrative: The Importance of Centering Choice
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 […]
