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What was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century?In 1854, singing master Manuel Garcia became the first person to see the vocal cords at work in a human throat. Less than...

Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific workAnatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s...

An intimate meditation on aging and dying in exile among elderly Tibetans in Dharamsala, IndiaIn a Tibetan saying, the journey of life is likened to a climb up to a mountain pass. Upon reaching it,...

An ethnography of “silver backpackers” that offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement in contemporary societiesThe moniker “silver backpackers” refers to Japanese couples...

Biographical sketches of the nineteen chairmen who have guided the evolution of the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and surgery department, America’s first, from 1765 to the present...

Illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic worldBy the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed...

Firsthand accounts of COVID-19’s devastating effects on working-class communities of colorThe first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled with talk of heroes, the frontline workers who kept...

A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century EnglandA Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of...