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Ellie Rose Mattoon

Ellie Rose Mattoon is a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a 2023-24 Meg Walsh Fellow writing about women’s health and infection prevention. Her work has appeared in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter and The Xylom. She can be followed on Twitter @ermattoon. 

Native American midwives weighing a crying Native Amerian child on a set of scales in the hospital at the Glacier National Park, in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border, circa 1945
Health

Call the Midwives—Assuming Any Are Left

While midwife-attended deliveries are the norm in the United Kingdom, they’re the exception in the United States. Time was, this difference wasn’t so stark.
Libyan Sibyles by Michelangeo
Art & Art History

Delts Don’t Lie

Renaissance artists routinely used men as models for their depictions of female subjects, yet only the musculatures of Michelangelo tell that story.

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