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The Law of Averages 1: Normman and Norma

WebThese statues, Normman and Norma, are the 1943 work of artist Abram Belskie and obstetrician-gynecologist Robert Latou Dickinson.Dickinson, a major contributor to the …

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CABINET / Unwell

Web“Ill-health,” he writes, “though it has annihilated several years of my life, has saved me from the distractions of society and amusement.” His heart, stomach, and head were affected; …

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Bringing the Drugstore Home: An Interview with Deanna Day

WebDeanna Day is a historian of technology and medicine in the Center for Applied History at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Her current book project, 98.6: Fevers, Fertility, and …

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CABINET / Dr. Southern California

WebPostcard from 1913 featuring images of the Loma Linda Sanitarium in California. Founded in 1905, the sanatorium later became Loma Linda University. Climate is to a country what …

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CABINET / Infectious Laughter

WebBetween 1957 and 1968, over 1,100 of the Fore died from kuru, the vast majority of whom were adult females and children. 1 Kuru marks its epidemiological territory through what …

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CABINET / The Behavioral Sink

WebIn 1954, Calhoun was employed by the National Institute of Mental Health in Rockville, Maryland, where he would remain for three decades. He built a ten-by-fourteen-foot …

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CABINET / Virus Camp

WebThe process begins when one of approximately 200 viruses—let us say that it is a rhinovirus, the most common of them, which accounts for between 30 percent and 50 …

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Ingestion / Planet in a Bottle

WebThe medic who presided over the team’s health was Dr. Roy Walford, a professor of pathology at UCLA Medical School who had served in the Korean War and, at sixty-nine, …

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CABINET / The Meaningful Disappearance of Germaine Greer

WebIt is Greer’s text, she reports, that has opened her eyes to society’s attempts to “brainwash” her into submission. Greer herself is interviewed for the film while leaning against a brick …

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CABINET / The Medicine Barrel

WebViavi Hygiene went through six editions in three decades, and the Viavi Company grew into a behemoth, at its height boasting 20,000 employees in ten countries, with offices in …

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Like a Hole in the Head

WebThe film, titled Heartbeat in the Brain, shows her shaving her hairline, putting on a floral shower cap to keep back her remaining locks, fashioning a mask out of sunglasses and …

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CABINET / The Clean Room / SARS Poetica

WebBut unlike early didactic campaigns for public health crises such as tuberculosis, polio, or AIDS, which assumed that an audience lacked credible information …

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CABINET / The Clinical Orgasm

Web7. At the time that the Constitution was written, the theories described above were the dominant paradigm in Western gynecology. Benjamin Rush, who was a close friend to …

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CABINET / Dairy Cases

WebPompadour suffered from poor health throughout her years at court—her chronic fevers, nervous attacks, and lung problems are amply documented in court memoirs—and she …

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CABINET / Standard Deviation: An Interview with Jürgen Link

WebAnne Mihan, Thomas O. Haakenson, and Jürgen Link. It is commonly understood that what constitutes the “normal” is in a constant state of flux, but according to Jürgen Link, the …

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CABINET / The Origins of Cybex Space

WebThe Swedish physician Gustav Zander’s institute in Stockholm, founded in the late nineteenth century and stocked with twenty-seven of his custom-built machines, was the …

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CABINET / The Mouse’s Tale

WebBy this time, cancer was a public-health problem with major media momentum. Government statistics ranked it second only to heart disease as a leading cause of death in America. …

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Life on the Bell Curve: An Interview with Theodore Porter

WebThe purchase of health insurance by individuals would then become impossible or pointless, because insurers would be able to charge very nearly what each specific policy will …

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CABINET / Recollecting the Slaughterhouse

WebMeat hooks, blood, knives, animals and people engaged in a deadly spectacle and carnivore feast. Noise and the unmistakable sweet noxious smell of blood mixed with effluvia, …

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CABINET / Shamefaced: An Interview with Paul Ekman

WebThirty years ago, Paul Ekman, who runs the Human Interaction Lab at the University of California, San Francisco, co-published the Facial Action Coding System (1978), a 500 …

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Perchance to Dream: An Interview with Eluned Summers-Bremner

WebEluned Summers-Bremner: This is very interesting: one’s bed is a place of peaceful promise and fulfillment on a night of good sleep, but a place of torture and despair on a night of …

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Selective Memory: An Interview with Londa Schiebinger

WebAlistair Sponsel: Much of your work has dealt with bodies of knowledge and cultural practices that were either forgotten or intentionally made opaque. A striking example …

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