A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- It’s time for a Latino museum.
- Mad dogs and bindweed cures.
- The deadly bilibid prison vaccine trials.
- How scientists use and abuse portraiture.
- How will we tell the story of coronavirus?
- Vaccine mistrust historic and rooted in injustice.
- “We have not yet forgiven Haiti for being Black.”
- The new abortion rights advocates are on TikTok.
- Hear from nurse who inspired new Marvel comic book.
- San Francisco’s history of exploding dynamite factories.
- Enslaved children and the whitewashing of vaccine history.
- Accessibility in gaming and the problem of epileptic triggers.
- Abigail Adams had her children inoculated against smallpox.
- How art movements tried to make sense of the 1918 flu pandemic.
- The horse flu epidemic that brought 19th-century America to a stop.