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John Haygarth.
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Paying People to Get Vaccines is an Old Idea Whose Time Has Come Again

While smallpox was ravaging late 18th century Britain, John Haygarth thought up of a plan to pay people for public health compliance.
by Margaret DeLacy via HNN on June 6, 2021
Colorful vaccination graphic

Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?
by Alexander Zaitchik via The New Republic on June 1, 2021
Stephen Kinzer

The Untold Story of the CIA’s MK Ultra: A Conversation with Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer discusses his new biography, “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.”
by Stephen Kinzer, James Penner, Ed Prideaux via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 19, 2021
Carrie Buck and her mother, Emma, at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924

The Chilling Persistence of Eugenics

Elizabeth Catte’s new book traces a shameful history and its legacy today.
by Chris Lehmann via The New Republic on April 20, 2021
profile illustration of human nervous system against black background

The Mystery of ‘Harriet Cole’

Whose body was harvested to create a spectacular anatomical specimen, and did that person know they would be on display more than a century later?
by Jessica Leigh Hester via Atlas Obscura on March 18, 2021
An old hospital room

“I Assumed It Was Urgent”: Helen Hurd’s Story

The story of medical sterilization, which in many cases was disguised as a routine appendectomy surgery.
by Caryn Radick via Nursing Clio on March 16, 2021
The Pfizer headquarters sign.
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Years of Medical Abuse Make Black Americans Less Likely to Trust the Coronavirus Vaccine

Reckoning with our past is crucial to getting buy-in for the vaccine.
by Dan Royles via Made By History on December 15, 2020
Protesters opposing ICE detention camps.
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The History of Eugenics in the U.S. Has Made Migrant Women Vulnerable

Marginalized women of color have long seen their reproductive freedom limited.
by Brianna Theobald via Made By History on September 20, 2020
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Migrant Detention Centers Have a Long History of Medical Neglect and Abuse

The link between medical abuse, racism and immigration runs deep.
by Jessica Ordaz via Made By History on September 18, 2020
Image of a Black man wearing a black mask saying "I Can't Breathe"

A History of Anti-Black Racism In Medicine

This syllabus lays groundwork for making questions of race and racism central to studying the histories of medicine and science.
by Elise A. Mitchell, Ayah Nuriddin, Antoine S. Johnson via Black Perspectives on August 12, 2020
Illustration of body being loaded on to a cart

Pandemic Syllabus

Disease has never been merely a biological phenomenon. Instead, all illnesses—including COVID-19—are social problems for humans to solve.
by David S. Barnes, Merlin Chowkwanyun, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan via Public Books on July 13, 2020
19th caricature of a dentist extracting a tooth

Sicko Doctors: Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America

American fiction of the 19th century often featured a cruel doctor, whose unfeeling fascination with bodily suffering readers found unnerving.
by Chelsea Davis via The Public Domain Review on July 1, 2020

Eugenic Sperm

A "test tube baby" grapples with the dark corners of 20th century reproductive technologies.
by Karen Weingarten via Nursing Clio on February 24, 2020
Four people looking at a latrine

The Paradise of the Latrine

American toilet-building and the continuities of colonial and postcolonial development.
by Simon Toner via Modern American History on November 29, 2019

A Brief and Awful History of the Lobotomy

Groundbreaking discoveries... but at what cost?
by Andrew Scull via Literary Hub on July 30, 2019

Resistance to Immunity

A review of three recent books that delve into the history and science of vaccines and immunity, and the anxieties that accompany them.
by Gavin Francis via New York Review of Books on May 23, 2019
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Blackface and the Roots of Racism in American Medicine

The study of medicine is rife with racist assumptions and experiments that still shape health outcomes today.
by Christopher D. E. Willoughby via Made By History on February 12, 2019
U.S. Base hospital No. 13, Dansville, NY, with porches and awnings over open windows.

Neuro-Psychiatry and Patient Protest in First World War American Hospitals

Though their wishes were often overshadowed, soldier-patients had voices.
by Evan P. Sullivan via Nursing Clio on November 7, 2018

Meanings and Materials of Miscarriage: How Babies in Jars Shaped Modern Pregnancy

In late-nineteenth-century America, the miscarried fetus became a scientific specimen.
by Shannon Withycombe via Nursing Clio on October 31, 2018

An Enduring Shame

A new book chronicles the shocking, decades-long effort to combat venereal disease by locking up girls and women.
by Heather Ann Thompson via New York Review of Books on October 7, 2018

Who is Dead?

What constitutes death is based on more factors than those that are medical.
by Sarah Swedberg via Nursing Clio on September 26, 2018

A History of Human Guinea Pigs

Medical science has always had a lax relationship to consent – especially with the marginalized.
by Line Høj Høstrup via The Nib on September 5, 2018
U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Birch Bayh shaking hands.

How Big Pharma Was Captured by the One Percent

The industry's price-gouging economic model was engineered by Wall Street and its political enablers—and only Washington can fix it.
by Alexander Zaitchik via The New Republic on June 28, 2018
Ad for children's aspirin.

‘Candy Aspirin,’ Safety Caps, and the History of Children’s Drugs

The development, use, and marketing of medications for children in the 20th century.
by Cynthia Connolly via Penn Today on May 22, 2018

Henrietta Lacks, Immortalized

Henrietta Lacks's "immortal" cell line, called "HeLa," is used in everything from cancer treatments to vaccines.
by Allison C. Meier via JSTOR Daily on May 17, 2018

NYC Will Move—But Not Remove—Statue of Gynecologist Who Experimented on Slaves

Some say the decision to move the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims from Central Park to a Brooklyn cemetery is a "slap in the face."
by Kimberly Lawson via Broadly on April 16, 2018
A White man injecting a shot into an African American man.

The Lasting Fallout of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

A recent paper provides evidence that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study reduced the life expectancy of African-American men.
by Nashwa Khan via JSTOR Daily on June 20, 2016
Black and white sketch of the front of the Mississippi State asylum.

Ghosts are Scary, Disabled People are Not: The Troubling Rise of the Haunted Asylum

Tourist-driven curiosity about the so-called "haunted asylum" has led many to overlook the real people who once were institutionalized within these hospitals.
by Sarah Handley-Cousins via Nursing Clio on October 29, 2015
Cover of "Empire of Necessity" featuring a painting of violence being wrought on enslaved men.

The Bleached Bones of the Dead

What the modern world owes slavery. (It’s more than back wages).
by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on February 23, 2014

How The 'Pox' Epidemic Changed Vaccination Rules

During the 1898-1904 pox epidemic, public health officials and policemen forced thousands of Americans to be vaccinated against their will.
by Fresh Air via NPR on April 5, 2011
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