By Miranda Yaver, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh
Florence Corcoran, an employee of South Central Bell Telephone Company, was eight months into a high-risk pregnancy when her obstetrician recommended she spend the final month on bed rest in the hospital, for close monitoring. Despite the recommendation, her health insurer determined that it would only cover partial-day at-home nursing care.
While a nurse was off duty, her fetus went into distress and died.
Corcoran sued her insurer, UnitedHealthcare. Because of a little-known…
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By Katherine Ott, Curator of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture of what physical well-being felt like for people living in the American colonies 250 years ago.
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By Steven K. Green, Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University
The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission argues that religious freedom is under attack and blames the ‘wall of separation’ between church and state.
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By Emma Fenske, Addiction Medicine Fellow and Internal Medicine Physician, Oregon Health & Science University
Despite growing evidence of alcohol’s harms, it remains deeply embedded in social norms and cultural rituals, both in the US and abroad.
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By Jacqueline Murray, University Professor Emerita, History, University of Guelph
Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible mechanism that’s now resurfacing.
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By Cathy Wilcock, Research Fellow, University of Manchester
The revolution in Sudan in 2019 has been eclipsed by the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, which began in April 2023.
But the events of 2019 demand greater attention as they hold lessons for a post-war Sudan.
Music was central to the protests in 2019. The camp outside military headquarters in Khartoum, where demonstrators gathered…
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By Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Every year on 16 June, readers around the world celebrate Bloomsday, the annual commemoration of Irish writer James Joyce’s landmark 1922 novel Ulysses.
The date marks the single day on which the novel unfolds: 16 June 1904, when its protagonist, Leopold Bloom, wanders through the city of Dublin. What began as a literary observance has become a global celebration of reading.
In…
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By Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin
Janet Greenlees, Associate Professor of Health History, Glasgow Caledonian University
British prime minister Keir Starmer has apologised in the House of Commons for historical forced adoptions in England.
Mothers and adult adoptees directly affected by these practices were present in the gallery. In his apology Starmer praised their courage and resilience in steadfastly campaigning for truth and justice, and described what they faced as “a stain on our history”.
“To all those impacted…
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By Victoria Mapplebeck, Professor in Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
I wanted to make a film about solo parenting in all its messiness, the highs, but also the lows. I shot with my smartphone, almost daily, for nearly two decades.
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By Sarah Singer, Professor of Refugee Law, School of Advanced Study, University of London
The UK government’s immigration and asylum bill puts forward a number of proposals to overhaul the asylum system. These include changes to how human rights are interpreted, and requiring refugees to pay back some of the support they receive. If passed, it will be the fifth immigration act adopted since 2022.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says the aim is to establish “a firm but…
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