Experiment vs. Treatment

This weekend I’m heading to Buenos Aires, Argentina for a week. You probably won’t hear much from me next week…

Reflecting on the History of Medicine, Part 3: Books and Articles for Everyone

As I’m sure you’ve noticed if you read my blog with any regularity, I read a lot of very theory…

Last week I talked about the focus on the family and children in public conversations, advocacy efforts, and research projects…

I was inspired to study allergies for my dissertation research because of my own unsatisfying experiences with allergy testing, allergy…

Since I was a bit out of the loop with teaching for part of the summer, I missed the news…

As I prepare a presentation for my field’s international scientific conference next month (Society for the Social Studies of Science,…

Image from Amazon.com One of the very first pieces of scholarly writing my summer students read was the first few…

For three weeks this summer, I was a teaching assistant for an intensive summer course on the history of medicine.…

It’s the end of the action-packed Saturday of FARE’s first national food allergy conference in Rosemont, IL. Right now I’m…

Last week, I wrote about the response of the online food allergy community to an article written by a mom…

This Friday, I’ll be heading to the Chicago area to attend FARE’s National Food Allergy Conference, June 20-22. I’m looking…

One of the thorniest issues for people with food allergies seems to be convincing others that their condition is “real”…

As those of you following me on Twitter may have noticed, I spent much of the past month writing a…

Last week, I attended a lecture by a physician for ENT (ear, nose, and throat) doctors and medical residents about…

In a New York Times Health essay from 2008 called “The Tyranny of Diagnosis,” physician Pauline Chen argues, “As comforting…

This past weekend, I finished a first version of a paper I’ve been thinking about writing for several months. I…

For a few months out of the year, pollen is my enemy. Birch flowers, a major allergy culprit. My list…

In the previous post about allergy testing, I talked a little bit about the STS perspective on the function of…

During some research activities this week, an acquaintance asked me, “What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned about allergies so…

I’m interested in how people learn to avoid foods or, more rarely, learn how to re-introduce them into their diets.…