This week at the University of North Carolina, a new clinic opened to provide mental health treatment for new and expectant mothers. And I don’t know if I should consider it a sign of colossal progress or failure. Let me explain. On Monday, UNC’s Center for Women’s Mood Disorders launched as the first free-standing, inpatient […]
Author: Ann Heppermann
Ann Heppermann is a Brooklyn-based independent radio/multimedia documentary producer, transmission sound artist and educator. Her stories have aired nationally and internationally on shows including: This American Life, Radio Lab, Marketplace, Morning Edition, Studio360 and many others. Ann is a Peabody award-winning producer who also has received awards from Associated Press, Edward R. Murrow, and the Third Coast International Audio Festival. She is a transmission artist with free103point9 and her work has been exhibited at UnionDocs, Chicago Center for the Arts, among other venues.
Anorexia, 138 Years Ago
On the final day of Women’s History Month, let’ s take a moment to remember Miss A, the first woman medically diagnosed with anorexia, and the pioneering doctor who used her case to challenge the era’s prevailing presumption that eating disorders were simply a mark of an hysterical woman. On October 24, 1873, esteemed English […]