For those of us who teach pre-modern English history and literature, there’s a conversation that happens nearly every semester. When […]
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For those of us who teach pre-modern English history and literature, there’s a conversation that happens nearly every semester. When […]
From the first page, it’s clear that Dr. Jessica Cox’s Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain […]
Many historians, including myself, have told the story of New York City’s Sea View Hospital, a tuberculosis sanatorium that operated […]
“There are some situations where the mother may in fact die along with her child. But—and this is the Catholic […]
With Roe v Wade upended, the balance of power and authority among lawmakers, medical practitioners, and pregnant and birthing people […]
In 2017, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts announced that it would stop using race as a factor […]
Ann Leary’s 2022 novel The Foundling follows a young white woman, Mary Engle, who in the 1930s lands a job […]
I first went to a medium for the same reason probably everyone does: I hoped to speak to the dead. […]
Before professional medical care became widely available, mental illness was often viewed as a personal malady with social impacts. Mental […]
It has been a privilege to read Violent Appetites, the latest installment of a debate about hangriness that unfolded at […]