This is a guest post by Alice Dreger

Our program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, in Chicago publishes a magazine called Atrium. Each issue features a specific medical humanities theme to which all contributions, graphic and textual, are specifically tied. (I like to think of it as a tapas journal.) This year I had the privilege of guest-editing the issue, the theme for which was “Bad Girls,” a theme conceived by Atrium’s editor-in-chief, Katie Watson. You can read the whole issue online (PDF).

What especially excites me about the “Bad Girls” issue is how diverse yet cohesive the collection turned out to be. Topics in the issue range from Christian forgiveness during abortions, to oral sex in rehabilitation hospitals, to what Jane Addams might teach us about medical education, to third-gender categories in Samoa, to the importance of traditional “feminine” sympathy at the bedside. Running throughout this wide array of topics, we find common themes: sexuality, dis/ability, reproductive rights, parent-child relations, and attempts by our cultures to fit us into gendered norms.

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The next Atrium theme will be “Counting,” and a call for submissions will be posted shortly.