Rachel E. Gross

Writing

My work centers on bodies, values, and the culture of science. Read some selected pieces below:

Featured

Women in Menopause Are Getting Short Shrift

The Atlantic, April 2024

The Unbearable Vagueness of Medical ‘Professionalism’

The New York Times, March 19 2024

The Unending Indignities of ‘Vaginal Atrophy’

The New York Times, August 2023

Please Don’t Call My Cervix Incompetent

The Atlantic, January 2023

Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?

The New York Times, October 2022

Feminist Science Is Not an Oxymoron

Undark, September 2022

The big idea: why we need to rewrite the history of female bodies

The Guardian, May 2022

Ovaries Are Prone to ‘Exhaustion’ and ‘Fatigue.’ Or Are They?

The New York Times, March 2022

Long covid could change the way we study chronic illness

The Washington Post, March 2022

Taking the ‘Shame Part’ Out of Female Anatomy

The New York Times, September 2021

They Call It a ‘Women’s Disease.’ She Wants to Redefine It.

The New York Times, April 2021

The doctor who popularized the Pap smear

BBC Future, October 2020

How Koalas With an S.T.D. Could Help Humanity

The New York Times, July 2020

The Clitoris, Uncovered: An Intimate History

Scientific American, March 2020