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the harvard undergraduate
history of science journal
Framing Madness: Robert Jones’s Moral Medicine and the Postpartum Mind
By Eunice Chon Note from the author: This close reading exercise was for HISTSCI 1770: Broken Brains: A Patient-Centered History, taught...
Harvard Synthesis
Sep 22
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Framing Madness: Robert Jones’s Moral Medicine and the Postpartum Mind
By Eunice Chon Note from the author: This close reading exercise was for HISTSCI 1770: Broken Brains: A Patient-Centered History, taught...
Harvard Synthesis
Sep 22
The Case of Josiah Oakes and Restraining the Insane: How a Court of Law Enforced Mental Illness Institutionalization
By Eunice Chon Note from the author: This close reading exercise was part of my History of Science sophomore tutorial, where we were...
Harvard Synthesis
Sep 22
What can the world learn from the U.S. and China’s vastly different responses to COVID-19?
By Shuyue “Sylvia” Wang Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, became one of the most...
Harvard Synthesis
Sep 22
Hua Tuo and the Origins of Surgery in Ancient China
When we look at the history of medicine and surgery, several figures stand out as exemplary. For much of recorded history, works from the...
Nicholas Sze
Mar 25, 2022
Cardano’s Demons: Renaissance Demonology and Divination
A cursory glance at his autobiography reveals Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) to have been a man interested in many - sometimes unorthodox -...
John Schaefer
Apr 26, 2021
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