“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....
