Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long after birth deserved...

It’s a rare academic history book that tempts me to binge-read.  Wendy Kline’s Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth is one of those...

Should I post a tough parenting question on Twitter, ask my Facebook community, or email a few friends who are most likely to have useful...

“Wait on the curb, kids. Wait until I say you can cross.” Janice, the crossing guard at Fairmount Avenue, stepped briskly into traffic,...

“In her new book, “Becoming,” Michelle Obama reveals that she miscarried her first pregnancy, and went on to conceive her two daughters...

Quick — is your nearest hospital affiliated with the Catholic Church? This is a question I would not have been able to answer during my...

Before 2016, conversations at school pickup time in my affluent suburb nearly always revolved around kids’ activities and home...

Are all of our “smart” devices training us to be “dumb” humans, too-often indistinguishable from mere machines? As click-through...

Randi Hutter Epstein’s new book, Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything, traces the development of...

What led a Walgreeens pharmacist to deny a woman her prescription. Read the rest at the Washington Post #conscienceclause #misoprostol

In December of 2016, I wrote an essay for Nursing Clio called Nurse-Midwives are With Women, Walking a Middle Path to a Safe and...

“Merry Christmas!” It was the standard December greeting in the New Jersey town where I was raised. New Jersey is diverse as a whole, but...

I would call it a “pet peeve,” but the stakes are higher: I can’t stand policy arguments based on inaccurate or misrepresented historical...

When I was 19, I had a summer job supervising a playground. It was a pretty lame job. It paid $5 an hour, and it was outside in the...

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Sharrona Pearl about her new book, Face/On: Transplants and the Ethics of the Other. Below...

“If men could menstruate,” Gloria Steinem observed wryly in an iconic 1978 essay for Ms. magazine, “[s]anitary supplies would be...

One of my favorite books to recommend to new parents is The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind. In it,...

Last year I learned how to chop a carrot with my eyes closed. While being filmed. Sounds like one of those crazy reality cooking shows,...

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine asked me to write a blog post about how women handled menstruation in the nineteenth century,...

For three decades, my dad’s brothers framed houses. The three of them had a small construction business in rural Connecticut. The eldest...