Thinking about medicine and the body in history
(updated April 2025) You shouldn't do that, right? But we do, otherwise we wouldn't need to be warned not to... If you are writing a book, you will at some time have to make a decision about the cover. Having only previously published academic books, my foray into the world of trade books has given… Continue reading Judging a book by its cover
Julia Margaret Cameron’s Hypatia Everything has a history: even menstruation. I managed to write an 80,000 word doctoral thesis on menstruation in classical Greece, which just goes to show that there's a story to be told there! I've shared a few of the weirder beliefs here. One of the questions I couldn’t answer in… Continue reading The history of menstruation
Mistaking histories 