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When the Personal Really is Historical (and Scary!)
By Jacqueline Antonovich So, I have pertussis. You may know it better as whooping cough. Believe me, the irony of a gender and medicine historian catching a 19th century disease is not lost on me. It’s...
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HPV and the Importance of Planned Parenthood
By Tina M. Kibbe While doing research for a new project, I was doing some reading about sexually transmitted infections and came across a couple of interesting articles about the HPV vaccine and...
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Quit Snickering about Michael Douglas, HPV is Serious Business
By Heather Munro Prescott In an interview about his new film "Behind the Candelabra", actor Michael Douglas told the Guardian that his throat cancer was caused not by years of smoking but "by HPV...
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The Resurgence of the Horrific, Harsh, and Ugly Reality of Childhood...
By Natisha Robb In "When the Personal Really is Historical (and Scary!)," Jacqueline Antonovich, a gender and medicine historian, described her 21st-century experience with pertussis, a.k.a. whooping...
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Circumcision Debate: Cut the Hyperbole
By Elizabeth Reis What frustrates me about the circumcision debate is that both sides exaggerate their claims. Maybe this happens with most controversies, but I am particularly attuned to this one...
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