British Family Structure Was Transformed by Marie Stopes: the Paleobotanist who Changed It
Prior to her fame and controversy in twentieth-century public health, Marie Stopes made headlines in an entirely different…
The Fierce Battles of Margaret Sanger: Opening America’s First Illegal Birth Control Clinic
In October 1916, a small storefront opened in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a working-class neighborhood. Casual passersby might mistake it…
Professor Alice Hamilton invents industrial toxicology as the first female Harvard professor
In the days before workplace safety regulations, warnings about hazardous chemicals, and government protection agencies, American factories were…
Carl Jung: The Deep Psychological Split From Freud That Led to His Solitary Exploration of the Collective Unconscious
In the early twentieth century, two brilliant minds joined forces to change how humanity understands the mind. Sigmund…
Anatomy of Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud’s Cocaine, Cancer, and Psychoanalytic Theories
The foundational concepts of psychoanalysis—the unconscious mind, dream analysis, defense mechanisms, and division of the psyche into Id,…
Viktor Frankl: How Surviving a Concentration Camp Formulated Logotherapy and the Search for Meaning
In the history of twentieth-century psychology, few intellectual breakthroughs carry the emotional and moral weight of Logotherapy. Developed…
Paul Farmer: Pragmatic Solidarity and the Revolution in Global Health Equity
In the late 20th century, international public health institutions operated under a pessimistic consensus: advanced medical care—such as…
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: The Swiss Psychiatrist Who Mapped Out Grief’s Stages
Death was once treated as a shameful failure in modern medicine, rather than a natural part of life.…
Cicely Saunders: The Nurse, Social Worker, and Physician Who Invented Modern Hospice Care
When a person faces a terminal illness in the modern healthcare system, we take certain fundamental rights for…
Architect Bjarke Ingels illustrates the importance of hedonistic sustainability as a way of scaling big ideas
The word “sustainability” usually triggers thoughts of compromise in people’s minds. A general sense of moral duty requires…