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A New Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy
Dec 19 2023
By Jennifer Hendricks, author of Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and MotherhoodWhen the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and abolished the right to abortion, the court trivialized pregnancy and its impact on women’s lives. Nowhere in its opinion did the
Q&A with Mara Buchbinder, author of Scripting Death
May 04 2021
Mara Buchbinder is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, takes a close look at the rise of medical aid-in-dying, which is now legal
Post-pandemic Will the Poor Get Poorer?
Oct 29 2020
Anirudh KrishnaAnirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates
Virtual Q&A with Rene Almeling, author of GUYnecology
Sep 14 2020
Is there such a thing as a "male biological clock"? What do we really know about men's reproductive health?The answer, accordingly to author Rene Almeling, is surprisingly little. In contrast, the medical specialty of gynecology, focused on women's reproductive health, began over 100 years ago.