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WEBA 1918 poster lists horrors “fought in the open”—bubonic plague, yellow fever—then says it is time to fight (the shameful secret of) venereal disease. Wartime …

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Breakthrough Research Connects Genes, Personality, and Health

WEBJeannette Cooperman. Jeannette Cooperman holds a degree in philosophy and a doctorate in American studies. She has won national awards for her investigative …

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Frankenstein and the Scientific Self

WEBFigure 2. Frankenstein in his laboratory. From Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus,, illustrated by Lynd Ward (New York: Harrison Smith and …

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Why, and How, the Colors of Mental Health Matter

WEBBlues, yellows, purples, reds, and orange hues migrate across primary cortexes and areas of the brain. They settle and unsettle our moods, thoughts, and …

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The Adolescent Paradox

WEBJuly 17, 2017. Personal Essays. There is something called the adolescent paradox, a term referring to the ironic situation in which young adults are at once both at the peak of their …

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The Grisly Habits of Beatrix Potter

WEBWell, darker than the Beatrix Potter I knew. In the haunted season in Antler Wood, two fox kits get separated from their litters and face unspeakable dangers. About three-fourths …

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Of Medicine and Desegregation

WEBAnd the problems of racial and ethnic inequities and disparities in health and health care are enduring national concerns. Still, the rapid and effective desegregation of U.S. …

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The Rise and Fall of Homer G. Phillips Hospital, Another View

WEBPhillips had a fervent desire to see another segregated hospital created for Black St. Louis and he passionately supported the hospital’s creation until his untimely …

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Does Labeling Mental Illness Do More Harm Than Good

WEBDiagnosing mental illness is trickiest of all, and while the label does hand you an insurance billing code, it also drapes you in a cloak of shame and stigma. But the …

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Smallpox: The Rise and Decline of a Deadly Plague

WEBEditor’s note: This review originally appeared in a 2011 issue of Belles Lettres. Movie of the plague year. In 1950, Hollywood released a generally unimpressive …

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The Rise and Fall of a Noble and Needed Black Institution

WEBO’Connor captures the prevailing sentiment of African Americans in St. Louis during the period of the Supreme Court’s Plessy v.Ferguson’s separate but unequal …

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Missouri News in the 1870s: How People Died

WEBLet us end our time travel with death, the most revealing state of all. There was no privacy between the 1860s and 1880s; one learned from the newspaper exactly …

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The Fat, the Thin, and the Psychology of the Body

WEBLike Julie Powell’s similarly hybrid book Julie and Julia (2005), This Is Big is simultaneously entertaining and poignant. Meltzer alternates between telling Nidetch’s …

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A Very Incomplete List of Popular Songs about Various Forms of …

WEB15. “Suicide Blues”/“Ode to Billie Joe” If the desire to commit suicide is a sign of severe depression, then Blues pianist Leroy Carr’s “Suicide Blues” surely qualifies as …

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The Contagion Narrative—and What It Leaves Out

WEBThere is a mythic quality to the outbreak narrative, she notes. The threat is apocalyptic and terrifying, but then humanity is saved by triumphant scientists. Rather …

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Telling the Homer G. Phillips Story at Last

WEBThere were many stories, illustrative and horrible. A light-skinned Black man, badly injured in an auto accident, was taken to Homer G. Phillips. They took one look …

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Trapped in the Wrong…Species

WEBThis is not facetious. Science writer Michael Bond interviewed an engineer—married with two children, a responsible member of human society—who …

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