medical history

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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. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4/19/2022
  

  Racism and the 19th Century Yellow Fever Epidemic in New Orleans

  by Karin Wulf

  Karin Wulf interviews Kathryn Olivarius about her new book on the social and racial factors that prolonged a contagious epidemic that may have killed as many as 150,000 people in New Orleans between 1803 and 1861. 

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  4/20/2022
  

  Historical Novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez Shares Her Reading List for the History of Medical Racism

  "I wrote my newest novel Take My Hand because I believed there were too many people who did not know about the history of forced sterilizations among poor women of color."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/24/2022
  

  The Religious History of Caesarean Surgery and the Abortion Debate

  by Elizabeth O'Brien

  In the 18th century, priests in Spanish colonies in the Americas were required to perform Caesaran operations on pregnant women whose own lives were beyond saving in order to baptize their fetuses, helping to develop the Catholic doctrine that the unborn already had souls. 

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  3/4/2022
  

  Historians on the Lessons from 1918's Pandemic Fatigue

  Medical historians Nancy Bristow and Thomas Ewing reflect on how public discontent with public health measures has limited the society's capacity to control pandemics. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  3/4/2022
  

  What Can the History of Antivax Movements Tell Us about the Future of COVID?

  Medical historian Nadja Durbach and philosopher Maya Goldenberg explain that challenges posed by vaccine resistance and mistrust of health authorities are not new; the lesson to learn isn't that resistance is inevitable, but that some of the social conflicts supporting it can be addressed.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/8/2022
  

  How did this Level of Death Become Normal?

  In absolute and relative terms, The United States has fared horribly in the coronavirus pandemic. Historians and social scientists help writer Ed Yong explain why the nation meets mass death with a collective shrug. 

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• SOURCE: Notches
  3/3/2022
  

  Elizabeth Reis on "Bodies in Doubt," Her History of Intersex in America

  "People born with bodily differences that fall outside the bounds of “normal” have suffered tremendously, as physicians have tried to “fix” their bodies and their psyches to fit into a narrow conception of acceptability."