This page has links to essays and blog posts I have written on the history of science and medicine.
Women and Medicine on Wikipedia
The Spring of Air: Inventing the Scientist
When Pop-Up Books Taught Popular Science
Poison and Protest: Sarah Bassett and Enslaved Women Poisoners in the Early Modern Caribbean
What we lose when we lose Muslim immigrants (with Peter Barker)
The Virgin Mary in Medieval Islam
Why So Many Bars Are Named After Cocks
It’s time to stop viewing pregnant women as threats to their babies
Before Newton 