Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- What’s in your belly button? (Hint: ewww…gross.)
- The forgotten history of 20th century drugs.
- The history of female genital mutilation.
- The nautical roots of the modern tattoo.
- The troubled history behind the stolen babies of Spain.
- 1860s fundraising efforts for emancipated slaves.
- 18th century woodworking shop discovered.
- 100 years later, scientists hope to solve the “Piltdown Man” hoax.
- Early Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale discovered.
- Archeologists discover ancient evidence of cheese-making. (Mmmm…ancient cheese.)
- What’s the best history book of 2012? You can vote on the finalists.
- Just for fun – Historical reenactors caught off-guard.
- The tragic story behind one woman’s struggle with persistant genital arousal disorder.
- Did slave labor play a part in creating the Smithsonian Castle?
- The War on Christmas – circa 1912.
- Controversial MLK inscription to be removed.
- Human-Neanderthal sex is a tricky thing to prove.
- The history of AIDS.
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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