I was interviewed by Molly Webster for the “Kleptotherms” episode of Radiolab, which was entirely focused on the concept of temperature. Molly and I discussed the marker of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit: where it originated in medicine, how it functions as a cultural artifact, and why no single number can be an accurate or inclusive arbiter of human health.
Tag: Medicine
‘As Modern as Tomorrow’: The Medicine Cabinet
“‘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).
Bonkers Things Men Have Said About Women’s Bodies
Bonkers Things Men Have Said About Women’s Bodies, A History
Lady Science podcast
April 16, 2018
The Historian’s Laboratory
The Historian’s Laboratory: The Beckman Legacy in the Caltech Archives
Panelist
Caltech Archives
April 5, 2018
The History of Data is the History of Labor
The History of Data is the History of Labor
Lady Science
July 2, 2017
History Lab
History Lab
Program co-developer and seminar leader
Science History Institute
Summer 2017
My Data, My Self
My Data, My Self: A Century of Self-Tracking Health Technologies
Panelist
Science History Institute
May 25, 2017
Infrastructures of Hope
Infrastructures of Hope: Taking Care of Medicine in Southern California
Lecturer
Science History Institute
April 3, 2017
Bringing the Drugstore Home
Bringing the Drugstore Home: Patient labor, scientific medicine, and the development of the medicine cabinet
An Interview with Deanna Day
Cabinet
Winter 2015-2016
Exercise Without Failure
Exercise without Failure: Building Fitness Apps as Narrative Games
Model View Culture
April 29, 2015
Reinventing the Safe Period
Reinventing the Safe Period: The Contested History of Fertility Charting
Lecturer
Dittrick Museum of Medical History
April 9, 2015
98.6: Fevers, Fertility, & the Patient Labor of American Medicine
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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A Short Bio of the Medicine Cabinet
A Short Biography of the Medicine Cabinet
Lecturer
Philadelphia Nerd Nite
April 9, 2014
…Stop Worrying and Love the Zombie Apocalypse
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zombie Apocalypse [Audio Only]
Distillations
Science History Institute
October 21, 2013
A Zombie’s History of Medicine & Tech
HSOC 141: A Zombie’s History of Medicine and Technology
Instructor
University of Pennsylvania
Course Description:
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