Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of vaccinations.
- A brief history of animal death in space.
- The coolest historical gifs you will ever see.
- The really cool history of mountain biking.
- Is a little bit of Lithium good for our health?
- Who gets the royalty checks for Mein Kampf?
- A 19th-century guide to Philadelphia’s brothels.
- Debunking the origin story of the summer vacation.
- From punchcard to barcode: A supermarket history.
- The forgotten history of WWI’s female shell shock victims.
- Historian sues to gain access to police records of 1960s group.
- Saggy pants and the long history of “dangerous” street fashion.
- Government researcher fired after her 1980s activism revealed.
- 10 people who were erased from history. (See if you can find the linked Nursing Clio story).
*Today’s featured image is courtesy of Wellcome 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.