Hannah Dorf is a [2020] Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies major. She once thought she would be a Biology major and dreamt of studying the HIV virus in labs; now she has turned to the social sciences and humanities, but her passion to study the illness remains. The AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and the… Read more “Managing Your Own Survival”: Buyers Clubs in the AIDS Epidemic
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”
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
About Thomas Auen: As a graduating senior from Grinnell College, I’m making my way to Boston where I will continue my education and science applications as a research assistant. With a major in biological chemistry, my new position in the Department of Endocrinology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School will allow me to… Read more “BARRIERS” TO THE CONDOM’S PUBLIC HEALTH BENEFITS
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
