Posted: June 9, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Coyote Shook June 9, 2020 This graphic essay leads off a new series on the SHGAPE blog exploring the lived experience of Americans during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Also be sure to check out the list of further readings below. View the full PDF of […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, graphic essay, history of medicine, Indigenous histories, Progressive Era
Posted: October 8, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Lizzie Evens On 10th August 1916, detective Frances Benzecry visited a young woman, Elizabeth Kessler, and her foster mother at their home in the Yorkville neighbourhood of New York’s upper east side. At that time, Kessler was embroiled in an abortion trial in which she […]
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Tagged: abortion, history of medicine, Progressive Era, women's history
Posted: September 25, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Dr. Tamara Venit Shelton In 1909, T. Wah Hing was indicted for feticide. At that time, forty-year-old Hing had been practicing traditional Chinese medicine for more than two decades in a home and office on J Street, between Seventh and Eighth in Sacramento, that he […]
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Tagged: abortion, Asian American history, history of medicine, legal history, Progressive Era
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