Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A fun history of yard sales.
- Sartre, Camus, and the FBI.
- Color photos of Cairo in 1910.
- Mormon-themed aphrodisiacs.
- Manly slang from the 19th century.
- Chasing the White House Cézannes
- Puritans and their wacky baby names.
- The Real Mermaids of San Marcos, Texas.
- How a 90s pop song improved asthma treatment.
- What does testicle size have to do with fatherhood?
- Alcoholics Anonymous and the “geographical cure.“
- Chinese unearth ancient tomb of “female prime minister.”
- Buzzfeed has some fun with vintage French medical posters.
* “Gonorrhea can Deprive a Woman of the Joy of Motherhood” – Image courtesy of Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Historical Library. Yale University
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.