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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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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
Episode 1: Introduction
Mums the Word, with Marissa Diggs and Judy Durkin [Judy] Picture a birthing scene in just about any medical or family drama. The mother...
Mums the Word
Apr 16, 2021
Analysis of Maria Sibylla Merian’s "Preface to the Reader"
Who is Maria Sibylla Merian? Today, she is recognized as a skilled natural historian and an eminent early figure in the field of...
Haesung Jee
Mar 26, 2021
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