Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- 7 lost American slang words.
- A short history of the stethoscope.
- Disneyland’s wonderful wizard of bras.
- Will I be a dope doctor when I grow up?
- Should we teach music history backwards?
- Teaching medieval sexuality through puns.
- Oakland’s first all-black, all-Harley biker club.
- The history of America’s hard-working hoboes.
- Medievalist schools sex columnist, Dan Savage.
- At the first rock festival, pianos fell from the sky.
- The WWII kids who raced bicycles on bomb sites.
- Did the FBI fake an entire field of forensic science?
- Discovered: long-lost silent film with Native American cast.
- Survivors of the 1980s AIDS crisis reveal what happened to them.
- The American who saved 250,000 people from the Armenian genocide.
Feature Image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London: Group of nurses seated before a tent at the Portland Hospital during the Boer War., c.1900.
Jacqueline Antonovich is the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio and served as executive editor from 2012 to 2021. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.