Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- The computer your viewing this on was brought to you by a gay man.
- Want to date like it’s 1938? Here’s a handy guide!
- The long (and quite technical) history of the espresso machine.
- The very first drinking song discovered?
- The mystery of Dolly Madison’s red dress.
- Were nuns too sexy in the Middle Ages?
- For your own safety, stay out of the kitchen!
- Giggle water and petting parties: Slang of the 1920s.
- A great new exhibit in NYC features the complicated history of activism.
- Thoughts on Badu, Simone, and the black female body.
- Thanks to The Pill, women are having fewer abortions.
- The women of Watergate.
- David Halperin reports on the straight media’s annual state-of-the-gay report.
- Just in time for summer – The history of the swimsuit.
- New study sheds light on women and masterbation.
Featured image caption: Commercial of Bile Beans. Wikimedia
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.
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