Charles Saunders is a Political Science and Psychology double major. Outside of academics, he enjoys playing pickup basketball, Skyrim, Yugioh, and study breaks at the most inconvenient of times. Even in today’s society, where psychology, medicine, and the media have worked towards open communication about mental illness, there remains a definitive stigma. This stigma is… Read more Masculinity and Mental Health
Nick Brule is a third year student at Grinnell College majoring in Biological Chemistry. Post Grinnell he plans to attend medical school. He is also a member of the men’s soccer team at Grinnell and enjoys solving Rubik’s cubes in his free time. The total knee replacement is one of the great developments within medicine in… Read more The Solution to Weak Knees: A History of the Total Knee Replacement
JP DeFranco is a second year biology/neuroscience major and active in athletics specifically golf, weight training and basketball. JP has worked extensively with youth coaching basketball and special needs students. He enjoys spending time with his family and watching movies. Mental health and mental health treatments have been a trendy contemporary topic in our country.… Read more The Outside Looking In: Social Influences on Mental Health
Annie Galloway is a second year undergraduate student at Grinnell College. Most humans want to have full long lives in which they are able to do what they want. Illness interferes with this desire. The Golden Age of American medicine, which created the doctor-as-hero character, promoted the expansion of medical control and the idea that… Read more Nearsighted Normalcy: Evaluating What Frames Our Perspective on Normal Health and Illness
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
Ellen Schneider is a student at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. She is studying history and education, and hopes to become a middle school social studies teacher. In her free time, Ellen can usually be found going to estate sales, thinking about architecture, and asking people on the street if she can pet their dogs.… Read more Let Your Freak Flag Fly: Constructing Health and Reinforcing American Exceptionalism through the Display of Othered Bodies
by Irene Bruce Menstruation is something that most women experience but often don’t discuss unless in the presence of other women. The hidden nature of menstruation comes about as a result of widespread social forces that encourage women to view their bodies, and periods in particular, as objects of shame. Using sources such as books… Read more There Will (not) Be Blood
by Colton Silvia In the United States, less than 1% of the population will serve in some branch of the military and every year 10% of these select few will become veterans.[1] These men and women who voluntarily join the military, whether it be through officer enrollment or enlistment, are told they will receive several… Read more Willing to Serve, Unable to Wait
