Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Horseless carriages of the 1820s.
- Illustrations from the the Soviet Hobbit.
- The history of the prisoner’s “last meal.”
- The 8 types of drunken women, circa 1795.
- Victorian teacups with built-in mustache guards.
- The one true cause of all disease (all 52 of them).
- Masturbation advice for girls in 1918 (Hint: It’s bad).
- A creepy old photo I.D. card for a ventriloquist dummy.
- The Black 14: Race, Politics, Religion and Wyoming Football .
- Before there was PTSD, there was “Combat Fatigue Irritability.”
- “No Race Suicide in Utah!”: Eugenics, race, and a 1907 postcard.
- And finally, 14 cats from the 1800s who are having a way worse day than you are.
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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