Sex, Gender, History of Medicine

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Masculinity has its downfalls. This is certain. But how do we as a community address it? What can we do to address men and how can we make…

The C-section has become such a common surgery that it is not always even thought of as such. Instead- women around the world use the…

In her work titled “Menstruating Men: Similarity and Difference of the Sexes in Early Modern Medicine,” Gianna Pomata cites Johann Baptist…

In “Risk and Vulnerable Medicalized Bodies,” published by Koerber et. al. in Poroi in 2015, the authors find that perceptions of risk shift…

Which components of sex and gender are socially constructed as opposed biologically determined? This is a question that scientists have…

Making history, a family from South Carolina sued the hospital and state guardians responsible for performing a sex-assignment surgery on…

One might expect Vogue’s article on Hanne Gaby Odiele, the first model to come out as intersex, to be vapid or sensationalist, since it…

In an article on the website for interACT Advocates for Intersex Youth, Amanda Saenz, an intersex activist, wrote about the television show…

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

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Carol Collier wrote the book Recovering the Body: A Philosophical Story. Chapter IV is titled “From Astrology to the Cult of Dissection…

After discovering it while researching a theater piece on toxic masculinity, I initially thought that “The Art of Manliness” must surely be…

In an article in The New York Times, Daniel McDermon problematizes the idea that gender ambiguity is new. Tracing gender ambiguity back to…

In an article called “Learning Empathy from the Dead,” John Tyler Allen discusses how medical schools are attempting to allow and encourage…

Medical illustrations were’t always so boring and scientific. Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, anatomical representations used to…

In “An Opera Revisits the Grisly Public Dissections of the 18th Century” from Hyperallergic, Allison Meier reviewed the opera “Anatomy…

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

In discussions of health and medicine in the East, one controversial issue has been the validity of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). On…

Writing in a 2001 issue of the New Yorker, Atul Gawande recounts the unease doctors nowadays feel when asking families for permission to…

In a recently rerun 2002 episode of This American Life: Testosterone, Alex Blumberg interviews transgender man Griffin Hansbury, who has…

Obesity is an increasingly prevalent condition in the western world, one which elicits both revulsion and interest. Helen Archer in her…

In the generation of instant communication, the new field of telemedicine is looking to transform the modern doctor/patient relationship. A…

Alternative medicine has gained popularity amongst those who don’t believe their doctors really care about them. However, in a 2013 article…

In the scientific article Randomized Controlled Study of Premenstrual Symptoms Treated With Ear, Hand, and Foot Reflexology, published by…

In this chapter from The Nature of Their Bodies: Women and Their Doctors in Victorian Canada, three main aspects of women’s reproductive…

Michael Castleman published an article in the spring of 2013 giving a short history and evolution of female vibrators. It is an interesting…

In many respects, the idea of a one-sex model embraces the concept of similarity and equality. If the only differences between men and…

There are few phrases as misogynistically invalidating as telling a woman to stop being “hysterical.” Apparently, British MP Philip Hammond…

In an article written for Vice, Taylor Prewitt, a contributor to several online magazines, addresses the higher chance women have, and…