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Olivia Weiss in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Women’s Health as Baffling Mystery

In this chapter from The Nature of Their Bodies: Women and Their Doctors in Victorian Canada, three…

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

How Ancient Cure-Alls Paved the Way for Drug Regulation

The following is a summary of the article, How Ancient Cure-Alls…
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Olivia Weiss in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

A New Kind of Hysteria

In this article “Endometriosis, or Modern Hysteria?”, the author draws from her personal experience with endometrial…

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Kasey in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

SynDaver: The New Cadaver

Learning human anatomy from inflexible plastic models could become a thing of the past. In the 2017 Patriot…

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Aiden Lewy in Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine

Men and Vulnerability — Pitfalls of Masculinity

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Engendering Non-Humans in Science Fiction

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

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

From Expulsive Remedies to Foot Massages— Alternate Ways to Treat Those Who Menstruate

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Activism Will Help Intersex Youth

In “Risk and Vulnerable Medicalized Bodies,” published by Koerber et. al. in Poroi in 2015, the…

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

Germany’s Third Option

In August 2013, Susan Donaldson James wrote a report for ABC News detailing the law that Germany had recently passed…

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

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…

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Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine
Sex, Gender, and the History of Medicine
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