By Jennifer Hendricks, author of Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood
When 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 opinio...
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 i...
Anirudh Krishna
Anirudh 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 in...
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 ...