I Can’t Stop Scratching

The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine.Guest post by  Gil Yosipovitch, M.D.Itch, either acute or chronic, shares many similarities with pain. Both conditions are bothersome and they follow the same neural pathway, traveling through the nervous system. When you encounter…

I Can’t Stop Scratching

The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine.Guest post by  Gil Yosipovitch, M.D.Itch, either acute or chronic, shares many similarities with pain. Both conditions are bothersome and they follow the same neural pathway, traveling through the nervous system. When you encounter…

A Century Later, Conscientious Objectors Tell Their Story

Guest post by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus, author of "Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War" On a Hutterite colony, meals are served without ceremony—and in a hurry. My introduction to Hutterite dining etiquette came several years ago on the Miller Colony near Choteau, Montana. A bell summoned all of us…

A Century Later, Conscientious Objectors Tell Their Story

Guest post by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus, author of "Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War" On a Hutterite colony, meals are served without ceremony—and in a hurry. My introduction to Hutterite dining etiquette came several years ago on the Miller Colony near Choteau, Montana. A bell summoned all of us…