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Tag: Bodies

‘As Modern as Tomorrow’: The Medicine Cabinet

Book Chapter

“‘As Modern as Tomorrow’: The Medicine Cabinet” is a chapter in Boxes: A Field Guide, a volume edited by Susanne Bauer, Martina Schlünder, and Maria Rentetzi for Mattering Press (2020).

August 12, 2020April 9, 2021 Deanna DayBodies, Gender, Labor, Medicine, Science, Technology

Their Baby is a Bomb

Essay

Their Baby is a Bomb
Picturing Meteorology
June 18, 2018

June 18, 2018May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Gender, History, Motherhood, Science, Technology

The Queer Future of “Annihilation”

Essay

The Queer Future of “Annihilation”
Lady Science
June 4, 2018

June 4, 2018May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Environment, Gender, Pop Culture, queer studies, Science

Bonkers Things Men Have Said About Women’s Bodies

Interview

Bonkers Things Men Have Said About Women’s Bodies, A History
Lady Science podcast
April 16, 2018

April 16, 2018May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Gender, Medicine, Politics, Science

The History of Data is the History of Labor

Essay

The History of Data is the History of Labor
Lady Science
July 2, 2017

July 2, 2017May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Data, Gender, Labor, Medicine, Politics, Temperature

My Data, My Self

Event

My Data, My Self: A Century of Self-Tracking Health Technologies
Panelist
Science History Institute
May 25, 2017

May 25, 2017May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Data, Gender, Medicine, Motherhood, Politics, public history, Technology, Temperature

Bringing the Drugstore Home

Interview

Bringing the Drugstore Home: Patient labor, scientific medicine, and the development of the medicine cabinet
An Interview with Deanna Day
Cabinet
Winter 2015-2016

December 1, 2015May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Gender, Medicine, Technology

Exercise Without Failure

Essay

Exercise without Failure: Building Fitness Apps as Narrative Games
Model View Culture
April 29, 2015

April 29, 2015May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Data, Gender, Medicine, Technology

Reinventing the Safe Period

Event

Reinventing the Safe Period: The Contested History of Fertility Charting
Lecturer
Dittrick Museum of Medical History
April 9, 2015

April 9, 2015May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Gender, Medicine, public history, Technology

Babies on Demand

Interview

Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age
Distillations
November 18, 2014

November 18, 2014May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Motherhood, public history, Temperature

98.6: Fevers, Fertility, & the Patient Labor of American Medicine

Dissertation

Doctoral Dissertation:
98.6: Fevers, Fertility, and the Patient Labor of American Medicine [Full Text PDF]
History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract:

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September 1, 2014January 26, 2021 Deanna DayBodies, Data, Gender, Medicine, Pop Culture, Science, Technology, Temperature

How to Tell If You’re Dead

Essay

How to Tell If You’re Dead: the 19th-century doctor who wanted to create a “death thermometer”
Slate
April 22, 2014

April 22, 2014May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Gender, Medicine, Motherhood, Technology, Temperature

A Short Bio of the Medicine Cabinet

Event

A Short Biography of the Medicine Cabinet
Lecturer
Philadelphia Nerd Nite
April 9, 2014

April 9, 2014May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Gender, Medicine, public history, Technology

Toward a Zombie Epistemology

Peer-reviewed

Toward a Zombie Epistemology: What it Means to Live and Die in Cabin in the Woods
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
November 2013

November 1, 2013January 26, 2021 Deanna DayBodies, Gender, Pop Culture, Science, Technology, Zombies

…Stop Worrying and Love the Zombie Apocalypse

Interview

How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zombie Apocalypse [Audio Only]
Distillations
Science History Institute
October 21, 2013

October 21, 2013May 13, 2020 Deanna DayBodies, Labor, Medicine, Pop Culture, public history, Science, Zombies

Zombies in the Laboratory

Essay

Zombies in the Laboratory
Periodic Tabloid (part of a three-part series)
September 24, 2013

[Note: The blog where this series was originally published is no longer online. Below is the original text of the post.]

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September 24, 2013January 26, 2021 Deanna DayBodies, Gender, Labor, Pop Culture, Science, Technology, Zombies

Zombies in the Sugar Mill

Essay

Zombies in the Sugar Mill
Periodic Tabloid (part of a three-part series)
August 22, 2013

[Note: The blog where this series was originally published is no longer online. Below is the original text of the post.]

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August 22, 2013January 26, 2021 Deanna DayBodies, Labor, Pop Culture, Science, Zombies

Eastern State Penitentiary, 1929-1971

Review

Review: Eastern State Penitentiary, 1929-1971
British Society for the History of Science Travel Guide to Scientific Sites
June 18, 2012

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June 18, 2012January 26, 2021 Deanna DayArt, Bodies, Immersive Experiences, public history, Technology

A Zombie’s History of Medicine & Tech

Teaching

HSOC 141: A Zombie’s History of Medicine and Technology
Instructor
University of Pennsylvania

Course Description:

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June 1, 2012January 26, 2021 Deanna DayBodies, History, Medicine, Technology, Zombies
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