Journal Articles

Rich, Miriam. “Conceiving Monsters: Women, Knowledge, and Anomalous Births in the Nineteenth-Century United States.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 99(2): 316-346 (2025).

Rich, Miriam. “Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States.” Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society 114(3): 513-536 (2023).

O’Brien, Elizabeth and Miriam Rich. “Obstetric Violence in Historical Perspective.” The Lancet 399 (10342): 2183-2185 (2022).

Rich, Miriam. “The Curse of Civilised Woman: Race, Gender and the Pain of Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine.” Gender & History 28(1): 57-76 (2016).

Rich, Miriam. “The Discontinuation of Routine Smallpox Vaccination in the United States, 1960-1976: An Unlikely Affirmation of Biomedical Hegemony.” Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 16(2): 471-77 (2011).

Cain, Kristal, Miriam Rich, Krystle Ainsworth, and Ellen Ketterson. “Two Sides of the Same Coin? Consistency in Aggression to Conspecifics and Predators in a Female Songbird.” Ethology: International Journal of Behavioural Biology 117(9): 786-795 (2011).

Commentaries and Review Essays

Rich, Miriam. “Monstrous Births.” In Oxford Bibliographies in History of Medicine. Ed. Jacalyn Duffin. New York: Oxford University Press (2025).

Moses, Jacob, Miriam Rich, Callie Terris, and Emma Tumilty. “Continuity in Claims of Exception in Biomedical Technologies.” The American Journal of Bioethics 25(1): 89-92 (2025).

Vásquez, Lorenah, Miriam Rich, and Lisa Campo-Engelstein. “Beyond Policing Bodies: A Broader Conception of Fairness in Women’s Sports.” The American Journal of Bioethics 24(11): 29-30 (2024).

Rich, Miriam. Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History; Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture. New Genetics and Society 34(4): 449-453 (2015).

Podcast Interviews, Blog Posts, and Panels

Disability History Association Podcast, “Episode 47: Race, Reproduction, and American Medical Science”

Synthesis Spotlight podcast, “Episode 4: Dr. Miriam Rich”

Panel, STEM and Health Equity Advocates and Black Pre-Health Students at Yale, “Health and Mass Incarceration”

LabDish blog, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, “Eugenics used to be incredibly popular. We can’t let that happen again”

Base Pairs podcast, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, “Episode 12: Good Genes, Bad Science” and “Episode 13: Big Decisions”

History Beyond the Classroom blog, Harvard History of Science Department, “Day 5: Isla Genovesa”