Whitney Teagle is a second year history and biochemistry double major. When not in class, you can see her on the track or going on a run through the cornfields. As we well know by now, there is a growing obesity epidemic in the United States. Doctors, politicians, celebrities, and schoolteachers talk about it, and… Read more Medicalizing Obesity: American Perceptions of Body and Health
Kate Strain is a history major at Grinnell College from Baltimore, Maryland. On April 2, 1840 the owner of a tavern started a conversation with six members of a drinking club in which he criticized temperance lecturers, calling them hypocrites. From this conversation, part of the unlikely group of heavy drinkers attended a temperance lecture. Convinced… Read more Kindred Spirits
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
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
