medical history 
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
9/11/19
Uncovering the History of Child Psychiatry: A Conversation with Deborah Blythe Doroshow
by Kylie Smith
Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America’s Troubled Children explores the development of Residential Treatment Centers (RTCs) for “emotionally disturbed” children.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/5/19
Not having kids is nothing new. What centuries of history tell us about childlessness today.
by Rachel Chrastil
The long history of childlessness can help us to debunk myths, tell our stories and expand the range of our possibilities.
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SOURCE: CBC News
8/24/19
How do you measure a woman's pain? Historian Whitney Wood aims to find out
Medical historian Whitney Wood is the new Canada Research Chair at Nanaimo's Vancouver Island University.
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7/21/19
The Beginning of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic – and One Doctor's Search for a Cure
by Seema Yasmin
It was unparalleled, this confluence of public health, politics, clinical medicine, and public anxiety. The unknown disease was spreading faster than imagined. Humanity had never seen anything like it.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/9/19
The key to lowering America’s high rates of maternal mortality
by Melissa Reynolds
Health-care providers have forgotten the central lesson of two millennia of gynecology.
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3/31/19
Elizabeth Blackwell, MD., Hero, Humanitarian, and Teacher
by Charles F. Howlett
She used her skills as a teacher to become not only the first American female physician but also its first female professor of medicine.
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SOURCE: OZY
2/26/19
The Trailblazing Black Female Doctor That American History Forgot
Rebecca Crumpler wrote one of the first American medical guides to offer advice for women and children.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/7/19
Why it’s shocking to look back at med school yearbooks from decades ago
by Elizabeth Evans
They offer jaw-dropping examples of the sexism and racism that shaped professional cultures.
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SOURCE: History Channel
2/1/19
In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox.
In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox.
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1/29/19
Were These Enslaved Women Grand Medical Experiments or Guinea Pigs?
by Bruce Chadwick
Behind the Sheet is a great success on a number of levels, not just medical, and a four star historical hit.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/27/19
Quest to Solve Assassination Mystery Revives an AIDS Conspiracy Theory
“We were at war,” said the former militia member, Alexander Jones. “Black people in South Africa were the enemy.”
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