Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Salon interviews Boulder author, Florence Williams, on her new book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
- Is the FDA preparing to release the first preventative HIV medication?
- Fifty Shades of Grey is too racy for Florida librarians. They must have read our own Carolyn’s post on the subject!
- The BBC reports on a new study that found vaginal rings and patches may be a riskier form of contraception than the oral pill.
- Smithsonian.com comments on the raw milk movement.
- A revised definition of “addiction” may have enormous consequences for patients, doctors, and health insurance companies.
- Where do United States’ mothers rank in a new international survey on the “State of the World’s Mothers“?
- The painful story behind the history of dentistry
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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.