Heather Roesch is a biochemistry major at Grinnell College. After graduation (2018), she will be pursuing a Masters in Forensic Science. The discovery of radium in 1998 by Marie and Pierre Curie changed the American public’s view about both scientific limitations as well as public health. When radium was first extracted from pitchblende, a uranium… Read more The Power of Radium
Nate Zaroban is a fourth-year Biological Chemistry major and Neuroscience concentrator at Grinnell College. After graduating from Grinnell, Nate will be attending the University of Nebraska College of Medicine starting in the Fall of 2018. He took the History of American Health and Medicine course to learn more about the profession that he will begin… Read more From Conjecture to Reality to Controversy: Blood Transfusions and Blood Banking in America
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
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
Charlie Rosenblum ’18 is an Economics and French major at Grinnell College interested in health economics and development. On March 23rd, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or ACA for short) into law. Like many actions that come with the presidency, this was followed by much controversy as critics… Read more The Effects of Medical Technology on The U.S. Economy
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
Philip Trubee is a second-year student at Grinnell College. He is a Political Science and History major, and is employed at the Faulconer Gallery Print and Draw Room. His post on Trauma Treatment is inspired by his family’s work within that field of medicine. Trauma Medicine, as practiced in Emergency Rooms and field hospitals all… Read more The Evolution of Trauma Medicine in Wartime
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
Lucy Gross In recent years, there has been a tremendous shortage of organs for transplantation all over the world. Between 1991 and 2000, the number of people waiting for transplants increased by 41 percent, yet over these same years, the number of donors decreased by 10 percent.[1] As of 2010, ten people on the vital… Read more Xenotransplantation: Dr. Frankenstein’s Latest Creation
