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Shoshi Parks
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May 29, 2018
American women’s obsession with being thin began with this ‘scientist’
Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich were hooked on his diet
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Nina Renata Aron
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Apr 13, 2018
This brilliant black surgeon revolutionized blood donation — but overt racism meant he couldn’t donate
Titans like Johns Hopkins separated blood on the basis of race, or didn’t accept “Negro” blood at all
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Luisa Rollenhagen
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Mar 21, 2018
They used this photo of a man dying of AIDS to sell clothes and sparked a national controversy
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Nina Renata Aron
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Jan 11, 2018
Meet the unheralded women who saved mothers’ lives and delivered babies before modern medicine
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Jan 11, 2018
Watch: “Twilight Sleep” offered the promise of painless birth—but at what cost?
How a Ladies’ Home Journal expose ended one of the most controversial birthing techniques
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Nina Renata Aron
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Dec 19, 2017
Just when you thought eugenics couldn’t get any worse
White America’s 20th century obsession with…
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Laura Smith
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Nov 10, 2017
During the Cold War, the Kennedys worried we were too fat to fight
So the 50-mile trek challenge was…
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Nov 8, 2017
Watch: The first South Asian woman to get an American medical degree lived a short, heroic life
Anandibai Joshee died at just 21, but she left a lasting legacy
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Laura Smith
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Nov 7, 2017
This doctor pioneered the idea of relaxing and doing nothing—to be more productive
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Oct 13, 2017
Watch: Poor women in Puerto Rico became unwitting guinea pigs for the birth control pill
The case is as a classic example of unethical medical testing
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