Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- E. coli and bacterial sex.
- Rare footage of FDR walking.
- Leprosy vaccine scientist dies.
- Poverty among Holocaust survivors.
- Can the measles vaccine cure cancer?
- The racist roots of common phrases.
- The 19th-century vegetable version of Viagra.
- Thomas Edison and the cult of sleep deprivation.
- How old-timey medicine gave us the beard.
- Scientists discover 17-million-year-old giant sperm.
- Retirees are finding second careers at historical sites.
- Older women may be at higher risk for cervical cancer.
- Columbus’ ship, the Santa Maria, may have been found.
- The Acid Rescue Squad: Drug education in the 60s and 70s.
- 13,000-year-old wisdom tooth sheds light on Native American origins.
** Featured image courtesy of Duke University’s “Medicine and Madison” digital collection: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/mma_MM0443/
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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