Leah Barr is a fourth year Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies major at Grinnell College from Evanston, IL. Her maternal great grandparents met on the boat to Ellis Island. Leah plans to spend the next few years in pursuit of her lifelong goal of becoming a library curmudgeon. At the base of the Statue of… Read more Beside The Golden Door
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
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
Jin Komerska is a second-year biochemistry major with plans to pursue a career in the medical field. Jin is interested in the historical and social factors that affect medicine, and she will be spending next year in Vietnam and New Zealand, learning about public health, development, and attitudes toward science across cultures. Clinical trials play… Read more Clinical Trials and Ethics, or Lack Thereof
Hannah Boggess is a [2018] Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and History double major. Outside of schoolwork, she enjoys playing with every dog she sees, watching The West Wing, and being a feminist killjoy. Compulsory heterosexuality, a term popularized by Adrienne Rich in the 1980s, is the overwhelming, hegemonic, enforced belief that all people are assumed—and required—to… Read more “Intolerable Lesbian Lovers:” Medicine’s Control of Deviant Sexuality and Gender Norms
Sam Curry is a fourth year Anthropology major from South Kingstown, Rhode Island. His main academic interests involve humans’ relationships with the nature and environmental health, and he hopes to work in environmental policy after graduation. His other main interest is racquetball. In 1912, pediatrician Henry L. Coit, mourning his son’s death from typhoid fever,… Read more “One of Our Greatest Investments”: Breastfeeding in the Early 20th Century United States
My name is Oliver Vande Stouwe and I am a Chemistry and Economics double major at Grinnell College. I was born and raised in Grinnell but, it wasn’t until late in my high school career that I knew Grinnell College was the school I would attend. I knew Grinnell as a great academic institution with… Read more A History of Drug Advertising, Federal Drug Regulation, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Hi! My name is Jherron Sutton and I am a rising third year at Grinnell College. I am a Sociology major and plan to teach after graduation before beginning a career in educational law and policy. I enjoy spending time with my family and trying new foods. This upcoming fall I will be studying abroad… Read more Black Women and Contraception
