By tucking themselves away in the corners of beds and the folds of clothes, insects have long evolved alongside humans. […]
Community Food Justice: An Interview with Garrett Broad
We think and write about justice issues a lot here at Nursing Clio: social justice, reproductive justice, criminal justice, and […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of the “ditz” voice. Menstruating while disabled. […]
Poison and Protest: Sarah Bassett and Enslaved Women Poisoners in the Early Modern Caribbean
In 2008, the government of Bermuda erected its very first monument to an enslaved person. The “Sally Bassett Memorial Statue” […]
The Devastation of Peace: Otilia Noeckel and the Army Nurse Corps after the Great War
“I just adore the work I am doing right now. I am on a dressing team with another nurse and […]
Gilded Age Decadence and Decay: A Review of The Alienist
I’ve been pretty excited about the coming of TNT’s adaptation of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist since the announcement last summer. […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Under Victorian microscopes. When poop becomes medicine. The racist […]
Health Care in Colonial Peruvian Convents
Last May I had the opportunity to conduct archival research in Arequipa, Peru. I went in search of fodder for […]
The Weight of the Presidency
In early January, President Trump had a physical exam at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a periodic rite for US […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Selling American vigor. Every president’s health ranked. Slavery and […]
