Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Vagina panties!
- Understanding the placenta.
- Ebay: the forgotten archive?
- The history of the “bikini body.”
- The return of “crack baby” hysteria.
- 12 vintage pictures of farm stands.
- Relics from early Denver unearthed.
- Resuscitation techniques of the past.
- Children’s books for young feminists.
- How a Jewish doctor duped the Nazis.
- Is this famous personality test useless?
- The failed attempt at an FDR memorial.
- Sex and the history of restaurant reservations.
- A brief history of women at the Tour de France.
- How different cultures interpret schizophrenia.
- A pretty disturbing 1970s dating guide for men.
- Pregnant in the 60s and need a job? Incorporate!
- A history of women in the anti-suffrage movement.
- Heterosexuality in America: 50 years and counting.
- How public health campaigns can end up shaming women.
* “Women Working Out” (1908) courtesy of Tropical Press Agency/Getty Images
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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