medicine | Hippo Reads
Hippo Reads logo
Real World Issues, Academic Insights
Search
  • Home
  • Arts & Culture
    Featured
    • With Teen Mental Health Deteriorating Over Five Years, There's a Likely Culprit

      Cara Delay, Nursing Clio, Cora Webb, Nursing Clio, Regina Day, Nursing Clio and Madeleine Ware, Nursing Clio
      Arts & Culture
    Recent
    • Racism and the Scourge of Insecurity

      Glenn McLaren
    • Why We’re in Such a Frenzy About Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

      Amy Laskowski, Futurity
    • I Run ‘Facial Recognition’ on Buildings to Unlock Architectural Secrets

      Peter Christensen, The Conversation
    • Art & Literature
    • Philosophy
    • History
    • Religion
  • Politics & Economics
    Featured
    • The Weight of the Presidency

      Cara Delay, Nursing Clio, Cora Webb, Nursing Clio, Regina Day, Nursing Clio and Madeleine Ware, Nursing Clio
      Politics & Economics
    Recent
    • Four Crises Facing the President and How History Can Help

      Lindsay Chervinsky
    • Gullibility and the Triumph of the Con-Artists

      Glenn McLaren
    • Is the Era of In-Class Education Coming to an End?

      Cristian Gallegos
    • Government
    • Education
  • Science & Medicine
    Featured
    • Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars – And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life

      Cara Delay, Nursing Clio, Cora Webb, Nursing Clio, Regina Day, Nursing Clio and Madeleine Ware, Nursing Clio
      Science & Medicine
    Recent
    • Dysphagia and Swallowing Disorders How To Manage Them Later in Life

      hipporeads
    • The Advantages of Gene Editing in Agriculture

      hipporeads
    • Jonathan Franzen, Climate Change and the Need for Imagination

      Glenn McLaren
    • Psychology
    • Science
  • Bookshelf
  • About
    • About Hippo Reads
    • Team
    • News
    • Submit
    • Hippo Thinks
    • Partnerships
    • Join Us!
    • Writer’s Rights / Terms of Use
    • Privacy Policy
  • My Hippo
    • Log In
    • Register
  • Home
  • Arts & Culture
    • Art & Literature
    • Philosophy
    • History
    • Religion
  • Politics & Economics
    • Government
    • Education
  • Science & Medicine
    • Psychology
    • Science
  • Bookshelf
  • About
    • About Hippo Reads
    • Team
    • News
    • Submit
    • Hippo Thinks
    • Partnerships
    • Join Us!
    • Writer’s Rights / Terms of Use
    • Privacy Policy
  • My Hippo
    • Log In
    • Register

Tagged medicine

Home
Science & Medicine

“No-Tell Motels”: Abortion in Pre-Roe South Carolina

Cara Delay, Nursing Clio, Cora Webb, Nursing Clio, Regina Day, Nursing Clio and Madeleine Ware, Nursing Clio
Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
“Charleston was the place to come before Roe v. Wade, for abortions.” Reminiscing about illegal abortion in South Carolina in the 1960s and early 1970s, this woman in her 60s, an oral history narrator,...

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...

Three Life-Saving Medical Breakthroughs That Sound Like Science Fiction

Kevin Gardner
Science & Medicine
Today is an exciting time for medical science. Due to breakthroughs in technology and medicine, new doors are opening in terms of potentially life-saving treatments. From the tricorder to the development of...

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...

Handmaids, Hospitals, and The Pageantry of the Newborn Nursery Window

Hannah Fagen
Gender Studies, Science & Medicine
This story originally appeared on NursingClio, a collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender and medicine. Sixteen minutes into the second episode...

What is Good Healthcare?: A Global Study (pt. 3)

Mark Wien
Science & Medicine
This is the final part of a three-part series. Read parts 1 and 2 here and here. The World IS Flat Advances in technology let you bring diagnostic tools from blood tests, urine tests, and water testing...

What is Good Healthcare?: A Global Study (pt. 2)

Mark Wien
Science & Medicine
This is the second of a three-part series. Part 3 will appear on December 23.   Where There is Life, There is Hope Cultural and religious beliefs define many of us, and the decisions we make....
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3

@HippoReads Tweets

  • FacebookFacebook
  • TwitterTwitter
  • RSSTwitter

Connect

  • Submit
  • Subscribe
  • Survey

About

  • About Hippo Reads
  • Team
  • Contributors
  • News
  • Hippo Thinks
  • Partnerships
Copyright 2013-2015 Hippo Reads LLC. All Rights Reserved.