Hannah Storch is currently a senior at Grinnell College, double majoring in history and classics. After graduating in Spring 2016, she will be attending Georgetown University for a Masters in Art and Museum Studies. She has long been interested in the stigma surrounding venereal diseases prior to the 20th century and what caused the shift… Read more Changing Views About Syphilis and Sex Education Around World War I
Su Lim is a senior mathematics major at Grinnell College and interested in biostatistics and clinical research. The mid-20th century in the United States was a golden age of scientific advancements and medical discoveries. The rapid expansion of medical knowledge and techniques encouraged medical professionals to perform numerous experiments using human subjects either to better understand… Read more “First Do (No) Harm”: Unethical Human Experimentation and Ethics
Anthony Mack is a third year Biological Chemistry major at Grinnell College. When not in class, he enjoys playing baseball and is one of the captains of Grinnell’s baseball team. After Grinnell, Anthony plans on attending a college of pharmacy where he would work toward obtaining his PharmD. When a war ends, we are continuously… Read more What You Can’t See May Indeed Hurt You: A Historical Analysis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Richard Li is a second-year chemistry major at Grinnell College. He is a member of the Chemistry Student Educational Policy Committee and works at ITS. Outside of schoolwork he enjoys music, tv shows, hiking and adventures. When you try to make an appointment with a doctor today, you can choose to visit either your primary… Read more Shooting Up: Development of the Hypodermic Syringe
Monica Knaack is a second-year Biology major at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. Outside of her academics, she enjoys playing volleyball, hiking, and snuggling with her black lab puppy, Ella. In an age when a rapidly growing human population is no longer a sign of prosperity, but rather represents a growing strain on limited resources,… Read more Survival of the Fittest (Or the Richest)
Lucy Gross In recent years, there has been a tremendous shortage of organs for transplantation all over the world. Between 1991 and 2000, the number of people waiting for transplants increased by 41 percent, yet over these same years, the number of donors decreased by 10 percent.[1] As of 2010, ten people on the vital… Read more Xenotransplantation: Dr. Frankenstein’s Latest Creation
Johanna Foster is a senior sociology major at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Her post-graduation plans involve working in education and the consumption of copious amounts of coffee. Modern pop culture loves to pathologize women’s behavior. Does this seem like a questionable assertion? A quick dive into the murky waters of the popular website, urbandictionary.com,… Read more Autonomous and Insane: The Gendered, Classed, and Raced Pathologization of Women’s Minds
Marisa Leib-Neri is a second year Independent major in Disability Studies. She is fascinated by different cultural conceptions of disability and how disability, health, medicine, and wellness are historically intertwined. Her hobbies include tennis, violin, and re-watching every season of Parks and Recreation. The modern view of reality is based in straight lines and angles.… Read more “Everything in Nature goes in curves and circles”: Native American Concepts of Disability
Connor Mulligan is an undergraduate Chemistry Major at Grinnell College who has an interest in psychiatric medicine. In an era of evidence-based medical practice, psychiatry is falling behind. Treatment options and the theories behind them have retained a few common threads for the last two hundred years, but most have varied widely. Other medical specialties… Read more Prozac and Depression: A History of Opposing Theories
by Patrick Dowd Between 1999 and 2010, sales of opioid analgesics like Vicodin, Percocet, and OxyContin, quadrupled in the United States [1]. Overdose deaths have increased proportionately during the same timespan, with more Americans dying from prescription opioid overdoses than from heroin and cocaine overdoses combined [2]. Still, the distinction between prescription and illicit drugs… Read more Trickle-Down Addiction
