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Carolina Alvarez in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Feb 26, 2017

Menstrual Bleeding according to the Hippocratics and Aristotle

Katherine Nordstrom in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Feb 16, 2017

Male and Female Brain Anatomy: A Continuum Rather than a Binary

Helen Cattan-Prugl in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Feb 8, 2017

Cato’s Cabbage & Superfoods

In the 2nd century CE, Cato wrote on the various effects of cabbage in De Agricultura. It was supposed to cure…

Elise Elliott in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Feb 19, 2017

Engendering Non-Humans in Science Fiction

Though the present-day sex/gender distinction commonly associates sex with biology and…

Rosalind Lytle-Rich in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Feb 10, 2017

But Who Wears The Pants When You’re Both in Dresses?

Phoebe Reuben in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Feb 26, 2017

A Different Kind of Nosebleed

I was immediately intrigued by the attention given to periods in the ancient world. Understanding…

Carolina Alvarez in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Feb 3, 2017

How Ancient Cure-Alls Paved the Way for Drug Regulation

The following is a summary of the article, How Ancient Cure-Alls…

Nathalie Freeman in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Feb 14, 2017

The Gender Divide Doesn’t Add Up

In a 2011 article, Do the Math! Sex Divide Is Cultural, Not Biological, published by LiveScience…

Annie Xu in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Feb 6, 2017

The Use of Dreams in Greco-Roman Medicine

The following is a summary of an article by M. Andrew Holowchak published in Journal of…

March 2017

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