In December 1943 Colonel Derrick Vail, ophthalmologist and consultant to the Army Medical Department in Europe, wrote in a memo: […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Hookworm is back. Can microbes speak? The Nazi sites […]
Me, Me, Me: Millennials, Midwives, and the Ongoing History of Female Self-Care
Several articles from reputable sources such as NPR and The Guardian have recently focused on the millennial generation’s supposed obsession […]
Face to Face with Sharrona Pearl
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Sharrona Pearl about her new book, Face/On: Transplants and the Ethics of […]
Renée Zellweger, Isabelle Dinoire, and the Stakes for Changing the Face
On October 20, 2014, Renée Zellweger attended the Elle Women in Hollywood event, her first appearance in the public eye […]
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 The history of women and pants. Are you descended […]
A Well-Balanced Serving of School Food History — With a Side of Grassroots Reform
I have few memories of school lunches from my childhood. I do recall the small milk cartons and brown milky […]
The Gastropolitics of School Lunch
For Americans of a certain age, the term school lunch evokes the worst elements of institutional dining: soggy pizza, mushy […]
Queering History: Back to School Edition
In his second inaugural address in 2013, President Barack Obama stated that [gblockquote]We, the people, declare today that the most […]
