Before 2016, conversations at school pickup time in my affluent suburb nearly always revolved around kids’ activities and home remodeling. […]
Land-Grant Eugenics: Spreading an Idea in Rural America
Eugenics as an explicit social program went mostly out of favor in the United States after the Second World War, […]
From Mooktie to Juan: The Eugenic Origins of the “Defective Immigrant”
On a Monday in November 1905, a “little deaf and dumb … 10-year old Eurasian girl” called Mooktie Wood arrived […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Under Victorian microscopes. When poop becomes medicine. The racist […]
Nursing Clio Presents Its Third Annual Best Of List
Let’s face it, we all knew 2017 was going to be a garbage fire. But in between the political nightmares, […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The Nazi anatomists. White feminism and eugenics. The best […]
The Cultural Logic of Calories and Body Types
We were promised calorie labels. New York City has required them in chain restaurants since 2008 and California since 2009, […]
Mothers’ Natures: Sex, Love, and Degeneration in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Every so often, some viral article or other will declare that science “proves” or “confirms” that intelligence is inherited from […]
Imagining Sex Change in Early Modern Europe
Once a historical mind starts thinking about the ways sex intersects with the histories of medicine, it’s almost more difficult […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of Pyrex. The midwestern history revival. Shoes […]