Megumi Corley is a third year Biological Chemistry major at Grinnell College. After Grinnell, she plans on attending dental school. On February 19th, 1942, ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. [1] This infamous law forced the removal of thousands of people of Japanese descent from… Read more Health In Japanese Internment Camps
Andi Leff (’18) majored in Biological Chemistry at Grinnell College and will be attending medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in the fall of 2018. Her favorite color is orange, she believes wholeheartedly that WAWA is the greatest gas station ever, and she advocates daily the east coast is the… Read more A Placebo is more than just a Sugar Pill
Nate Zaroban is a fourth-year Biological Chemistry major and Neuroscience concentrator at Grinnell College. After graduating from Grinnell, Nate will be attending the University of Nebraska College of Medicine starting in the Fall of 2018. He took the History of American Health and Medicine course to learn more about the profession that he will begin… Read more From Conjecture to Reality to Controversy: Blood Transfusions and Blood Banking in America
Misha Laurence ’18 is an anthropology major (with a linguistics concentration). His work focuses on medical cannabis, particularly in connection with medical anthropology, science studies, and the study of health movements and activism. For his senior thesis in anthropology, he conducted an ethnographic study of medical cannabis in Washington State. In addition, he enjoys birdwatching,… Read more Recipe for Revolution: “Brownie Mary” and the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic, 1980s-1990s
Summer White is a senior political science major with a concentration in policy studies at Grinnell College. Interested in pursuing public health and social justice oriented policy, Summer will begin her career this July in Washington, DC as a federal strategy and operations business analyst. Health is a universal human experience. Physical, social, emotional, mental,… Read more History of Welfare in United States: Equality for Some
Amelia Cogan (’19) is a student at Grinnell College majoring in Biological Chemistry. In the fall of 2018, she will begin pursuing her Masters of Public Health at the University of Iowa. She then plans to attend medical school and work with vulnerable populations as a physician, hoping to achieve health equity in her community.… Read more A-Freud of the Slip: Bringing Unconscious Thought to the Conscious Mind
Kyra Neylan is a fourth year student at Grinnell College studying biology and neuroscience. She is interested in pursuing a career in medicine. From the onset in 1980 of what would come to be a national epidemic, the disease now known as HIV/AIDS was framed as a disease of male homosexuality. Initially termed Gay Related… Read more Widening the Healthcare Gap: The AIDS Epidemic and “The Other”
Lucy Chechik is a fourth year Chemistry major from Minneapolis, MN. After Grinnell, she wants to become a physician focused on maternal health. “The difficult thing for us to realize is the position of trust and respect in which the midwife is held in Denmark” –Dr. Dorothy Mendenhall, 1928 [1]. In the early 1920s, Dr.… Read more Midwifery Status in the United States and Denmark: A Matter of Inclusion in the Medicalized Model of Childbirth
The Author: Zoë Aber is a History major with a concentration in Environmental Studies at Grinnell College. “They have sought a phantom and found nothing. Their efforts have been as unavailing as those of the child that pursues its shadow or grasps at a moon-beam.” – Charles Caldwell, 1831 [1] The pursuit of a full… Read more Miasma: Breathing Air Filled with Contagion
Haley O’Neill (’18) is a Biology and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies major from SE MN. After Grinnell, she is working with maternal healthcare and reproductive rights advocacy. She hopes to pursue midwifery or women’s healthcare policy. The U.S. maternal mortality rate, in 2018, is comparable to the rate in the 1970s. Approximately 700-900 women die… Read more Choice? Alternative Birthing Options for Black Women in the Southern U.S. From the 1970s-now
