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
Toby Baratta (2017) is a student at Grinnell College majoring in Computer Science and Political Science with a concentration in Statistics. She loves data analysis, accessible technology, queer life, intersectional feminism, and cats. Sex work has been a popular conversation lately in the news and pop media. There have been talks about decriminalization, legalization, and… Read more Sex Work and Stigma: A Historical Medical Approach
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
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
Sadie Tristam is a third year sociology major at Grinnell College. She is passionate about education and medicine fascinates her. Changes in education usually corresponded with changes in the time. We see this in our primary education system, and it is no different for medical education. Many scholars who study the development of medical education agree that the… Read more Development of American Medical Education
William Rebelsky is a third year Mathematics, Chemistry, and Economics major at Grinnell College. After Grinnell, he plans to attend graduate school in a mathematically oriented field. Death, Profit, and Grinnell. What do these three things have in common? Influenza pandemics. Over the last century there have been numerous Influenza A pandemics that have killed… Read more Death, Profit, and Grinnell
