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How Underground Groups Use Psychedelic Drugs for Healing

Rachel Harrison, Futurity
Medicine, Science & Medicine
For a new study, researchers interviewed 15 individuals who have facilitated plant medicine ceremonies for thousands of people. In guided sessions or ceremonies, facilitators administer drugs like...

Are Our Genes Really Our Fate? DNA’s Visual Culture and the Construction of Genetic Truth

Kathleen Pierce
Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine
The direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andme has recently been described by journalist Erika Check Hayden as a “unicorn.”1 For Hayden, this Silicon Valley idiom describes the company’s one...

Forced Sterilization Programs in California Once Harmed Thousands – Particularly Latinas

Natalie Lira, The Conversation and Nicole L. Novak, The Conversation
Gender Studies, History, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
In 1942, 18-year-old Iris Lopez, a Mexican-American woman, started working at the Calship Yards in Los Angeles. Working on the home front building Victory Ships not only added to the war effort, but allowed...

Parents feel weird about sex ed for LGBTQ teens

Marla Paul, Futurity
Education, Gender Studies, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
The parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer teens feel uncomfortable and unequipped when trying to educate them about sex and dating, research finds. “Parents play an important role...

Scars and the Stories of Our Lives

Michele Battle-Fisher
Medicine, Science & Medicine
As a human, I am protected from evaporating by my integumentary system better known as skin. My body is kept intact by skin, the largest and fastest healing organ. We wash it, peel it, augment it, suture it...

Me, Me, Me: Millennials, Midwives, and the Ongoing History of Female Self-Care

Sarah Patterson
Arts & Culture, Gender Studies, Medicine
Several articles from reputable sources such as NPR and The Guardian have recently focused on the millennial generation’s supposed obsession with self-care. On the surface, this trend seems to fit nicely...

Health Policy as a Bidders’ War

Michele Battle-Fisher
Medicine, Politics & Economics
The health care delivery system has many stakeholders, with many screaming for attention bringing into question the accuracy of the “wisdom of the crowd” (see Lee et al. 2011). What was interesting about...
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