Writing by Topic: Medicine & Health
On the Vault
- “An Early-20th-Century British Map of the Global Drug Trade” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 19, 2015)
- “Beautiful Watercolors of Helpful Plants, from a 16th-Century Book of Herbal Medicine” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 18, 2015)
- “A 16th-Century GIF Tour of the Inside of the Brain” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 20, 2015)
- “A Depression-Era Medicinal Plant Map of the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 13, 2015)
- “How Proponents of Forced Sterilization Convinced Everyday Californians to Support Their Cause” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 6, 2015)
- “Lists of Types of Mania and Melancholy, Compiled for Early–19th-Century Doctors” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 20, 2015)
- “Late 19th-Century Maps Show Measles Mortality Before Vaccines” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 3, 2015)
- “A List of Diseases and Afflictions Suffered By Young Factory Workers in Chicago, 1895” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 6, 2015)
- “A 17th-Century Argument for the Many Virtues of Coffee, Chocolate, and Tea” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 28, 2014)
- “How Bad Are Your Drinking Habits? An 18th-Century Temperance Thermometer Has the Verdict.” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 23, 2014)
- “The Disastrous Cordon Sanitaire Used in Honolulu’s Chinatown in 1900” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 15, 2014)
- “19th-Century Classified Ads for Abortifacients and Contraceptives” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 6, 2014)
- “Those Funny 19th-Century ‘Reasons for Admission’ to Mental Institutions” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 15, 2014)
- “19th-Century Maps Tracking Major Diseases Across the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 24, 2014)
- “The Exquisite Wistfulness of 19th-Century Vegetarian Personal Ads” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 10, 2014)
- “A 19th-Century Mother’s Handwritten Record of Her Babies’ Childhood Illnesses” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 19, 2014)
- “How Londoners Died in One Plague-Ridden Week in 1665” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 22, 2014)
- “The Battered First-Aid Kits That Accompanied Early-20th-Century Explorers on Their Journeys” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 14, 2014)
- “When Students Went to School Outside–Even in Winter” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 19, 2013)
- “Map Shows the Most Syphilitic States in the Union” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 18, 2013)
- “Strangely Beautiful Illustrations of 19th-Century Patients With Skin Diseases” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 4, 2013)
- “Watch Gene Kelly Channel ‘Combat Fatigue Irritability’ in a WWII Navy Training Film” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 2, 2013)
- “Do Cigarettes Make You Insane? Some Anti-Tobacco Arguments from the 1920s” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 25, 2013)
- “Colorful 19th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Depict the Fight Against Contagion” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 25, 2013)
- “A Plea For Help from Nazi-Occupied Austria” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 5, 2013)
Everywhere Else
- “‘Inexplicable, Terrible, and Capricious'” (review of Jonathan Lamb’s cultural history of scurvy), (Slate Book Review, December 8, 2016)
- “The Epidemic Archives of the Future Will Be Born Digital” (Slate‘s Future Tense blog, August 23, 2016)
- “History, or Just Horror?” (Slate, November 6, 2014)
- “Download 100K+ Images From the History of Medicine, All Free Courtesy of the Wellcome Library” (Open Culture, January 21, 2014)