medical history

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• 11/20/2022
  

  Transgender Youth Have Doubters. They Also Have History

  by Pax Attridge

  Opponents of gender-affirming medical intervention for trans youth invoke "transtrendiness" or social influence to claim that they're protecting youth from impulsively making medical decisions based on peer pressure. To accept this belief is to ignore the historical presence of transgender youth. 

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• 11/13/2022
  

  Monkeypox Has Been Around for Decades; This Outbreak is a Product of Neglect

  by Alessandro Hammond and Cameron Sabet

  The world's response to viral outbreaks in poor nations demonstrates the hoarding of resources in the Global North, but it's ultimately self-defeating for rich nations, too. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  10/25/2022
  

  Doctors Who? The Radical History of DIY Transition

  by Jules Gill-Peterson

  As trans people's access to the medical system is under attack by law and political rhetoric, it may be necessary to revisit the history of trans women taking their gender transitions into their own hands. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/27/2022
  

  Recovering the Story of the Black Men who were the Nation's First Paramedics

  In Pittsburgh's Hill District in the 1960s, a group of Black men from a neighborhood where many were considered unemployable revolutionized emergency medical response. But the story of Freedom House has been suppressed. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/8/2022
  

  Why Medical Exceptions to Abortion Bans Won't Protect Women

  by Evan Hart

  Under new restrictive state laws, judges and lawyers, not doctors or patients, will decide who can get a medically necessary abortion. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/1/2022
  

  A Return to the 1960s "Abortion Handbook for Responsible Women"?

  by Lina-Maria Murillo

  Women acting on principles of mutual aid have worked to make information about reproductive health, including terminating pregnancies, available even at risk of legal punishment. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  8/11/2022
  

  "Phantom Catholic Threats" Haunt Ireland's National Maternity Hospital

  by Máiréad Enright

  Secular Irish health advocates fear that a partnership between the state and religious charities to operate the national maternity hospital will impose limits on care, including abortion access. Is this justified or a case of finding "nuns under the bed"? 

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• 8/7/2022
  

  The COVID Era is the Latest Episode of Medical Scapegoating of Asian Immigrants

  by Catherine Ceniza Choy

  From smallpox to COVID, Asian Americans have been blamed and attacked for supposedly causing disease, while their contributions to American health have been ignored. This medical scapegoating and the violence that often follow it demonstrate the need to teach more Asian American history. 

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• 8/7/2022
  

  Healing a Divided Nation

  by Carole Adrienne

  From specialized trauma care to emergency transportation to board certification of physicians, when we encounter the medical system today, we are experiencing Civil War medicine. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/26/2022
  

  The Racist Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was Exposed 50 Years Ago

  The study ran for 40 years, as nearly 400 Black men were diagnosed with syphilis but denied care so that scientists could study the progression of the disease, even after penicillin was available as an effective and safe treatment. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  7/28/2022
  

  Can America Apply Lessons from HIV/AIDS Crisis to Deal with Monkeypox?

  by Dan Royles

  Public health debates on monkeypox need to look at the history of health messaging about HIV-AIDS to focus on communities of gay men currently at risk while avoiding triggering homophobic responses and stigma. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  7/25/2022
  

  How an AP Reporter Broke the Tuskegee Syphilis Story

  Fifty years ago, Jean Heller revealed the horrifying truth that the US government had been denying hundreds of Black men treatment so they could study the progress of the disease. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  6/30/2022
  

  Nursing Clio's Collective Reproductive History Syllabus

  This is a selection from an in-progress project to develop a collectively-sourced syllabus for the history of reproduction and reproductive rights and freedom. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/11/2022
  

  Milbank Memorial Fund Apologizes for Role in Tuskegee Syphilis Study

  The Milbank Memorial Fund donated pittances to the families of Black men who died of untreated syphilis with a grotesque condition: families had to agree to intrusive autopsies to gather information about the effects of the disease.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6/11/2022
  

  Intimacy at a Distance: A New Book on Teletherapy Reviewed

  by Danielle Carr

  Hannah Zeavin's book traces the roots of the contemporary surge in mental health apps and pandemic-driven teletherapy, arguing that psychiatry has always relied on a fantasy of unmediated communion between two separate people that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/23/2022
  

  When the Constitution Was Written, Abortion was a Choice Left to Women

  by Lara Friedenfelds

  "Before the 19th century, civil society regarded abortion as a private medical matter for married women, and a problem in need of occasional discipline when it was a sign of extramarital sex."

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/17/2022
  

  What if Mental Illness Isn't All In Your Head?

  by Marco Ramos

  A historian of mental health reviews two new books and concludes that pharmaceutical and neurological approaches to mental health have failed and it's time to turn the lens onto society.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/16/2022
  

  Nursing Clio Project Connects Health, Gender and History

  “The personal is historical,” the blog’s authors declare — and its lineup of historians and authors proves that point again and again.

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• 5/1/2022
  

  A Century After the First Insulin Injection, It's Time to Make Sure It's Affordable

  by Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra

  The US Senate has the opportunity to honor the legacy of the doctors who pioneered insulin treatment by making sure that everyone who needs this life-saving medicine can afford it. 

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• SOURCE: Fortune
  4/23/2022
  

  Does the Forgotten "Russian Flu" of the 1800s Give Clues How COVID Will Wind Down?

  One lesson seems clear: there is no neat two-year timeline for pandemics, and viruses can circulate at a low profile for a long time.