As Prof. Lisa T. Sarasohn explores and explains in her new book “Getting Under Our Skin; The Cultural and Social History of Vermin,” these ubiquitous long time companions of our species at some point in our history, became something more than the mundane nuisances that vexed our mythological first forefather Adam.
My mother never talked about it, but since being by the side of my beloved wife as she entered and experienced it, I think it’s incumbent upon me – not only as one aspiring to be continually improving my understanding of the histories of natural history, science, and medicine but also, and even more importantly, as one seeking to be a good husband – to learn more about menopause; not only to understand the biological elements of it, but to be able to perceive and better understand its many historical and sociological aspects as well.
When a copy of Dr. Andrew A. Robichaud’s recently published “Animal City; The Domestication of America” from Harvard University Press arrived on my desk, I began reading it that very evening.
Upon reading Dr. Lea David’s recent essay “The Past Can’t Heal Us; the Double Edge Sword of the Human Rights Memorialization Agenda” as published in the Cambridge University Press blog, I was immediately taken by the originality of her central thesis – that mandating remembrance of historical injustices may not only serve not to remediate […]