Associate Professor

East Carolina University

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  • Re-post: “Can Trauma Be Passed From Parent to Child? “

    Following are selected quotes from the Ozy story “Can Trauma Be Passed From Parent to Child?” “When Yehuda researched mothers who were pregnant and in the World Trade Center during 9/11, she discovered that environmental fallout could even leave an imprint in utero.” (para. 2) “The plasticity of genes points…

  • Sexism in the medical system

    As a colleague and I are at work on a collection about pathologized gender in health and medicine (check out the call for papers here), I’ve been paying special attention to issues of gender bias in medicine lately. This forthcoming book by Maya Dusenbery sounds like important work. It promises…

  • Clinic gives women the same ultrasound image

    So much to theorize here … saving for later … Re-posted from http://some.ly/wNBI9av Expectant mother Jennifer Cusimano got an inside look at her womb 20 weeks into her pregnancy with the help of BabyView 3D Prenatal Imaging in Ontario, Canada, and was very happy with the results, Cosmopolitan reported. Cusimano was so…

  • Gender: Revealed!

    Gender-reveal parties have always kinda bugged me. Maybe it’s because they seem unnecessarily attention-seeking while also being staggeringly irrelevant (do you really care that much about anything but having a healthy baby?). But, I didn’t think that hard about why they really bugged me until I read this smart article…

  • Medical imaging

    I’m beginning a new project on medical imaging, and I was interested to find this story on top trends in medical imaging for last year. While several of these bullet point “trends” are clearly connected and/or unsurprising, they demonstrate an overall shift in the way we view and use medical…