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: Technology
These Dudes Fucking Love Minority Report
“These Dudes Fucking Love Minority Report” is a micro short story published in HAD.
‘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).
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Batuu
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Batuu
Contingent Magazine
December 5, 2019
Interview with Rebecca Onion
An interview with Rebecca Onion about her research, her career, and her new book, Innocent Experiments: Childhood And The Culture Of Popular Science In The United States.
Society for the History of Children and Youth Podcast
June 19, 2019
Review: Innocent Experiments
Review: Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States by Rebecca Onion
Journal of American History
[Preprint PDF]
September 2018
Their Baby is a Bomb
Their Baby is a Bomb
Picturing Meteorology
June 18, 2018
Robots are Better People than Mark Zuckerberg
Robots are Better People than Mark Zuckerberg
Lady Science
April 12, 2018
The Historian’s Laboratory
The Historian’s Laboratory: The Beckman Legacy in the Caltech Archives
Panelist
Caltech Archives
April 5, 2018
To Boldy Go Where No Series Had Gone Before
To Boldy Go Where No Series Had Gone Before
Lady Science podcast
February 14, 2018
Picturing the Future
Picturing the Future
Curator
Science History Institute
June 26 – September 21, 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
Toward a Zombie Epistemology
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
Zombies in the Laboratory
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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Zombies in the Country
Periodic Tabloid (part of a three-part series)
August 29, 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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So Argon Walks Into a Bar…
Distillations
March 4, 2013
Harry Potter & How We Let Technology Create Who We Are
Harry Potter, Wizards and How We Let Technology Create Who We Are
Popmatters
August 16, 2012
Eastern State Penitentiary, 1929-1971
Review: Eastern State Penitentiary, 1929-1971
British Society for the History of Science Travel Guide to Scientific Sites
June 18, 2012
[Note: The formatting of the original publication has been broken. For legibility, the text of the review is posted below.]
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HSOC 141: A Zombie’s History of Medicine and Technology
Instructor
University of Pennsylvania
Course Description:
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