Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- £7.5 trillion for slavery.
- Bette Davis on sexism.
- Vaccinated mosquitos?
- A history of body snatching.
- “What Women Want”: a history.
- How science still gets race wrong.
- How New York invented night life.
- How blind Victorians fought for education.
- Uterus transplant produces a healthy baby boy.
- A history of unwanted visitors at the White House.
- An oral history of an iconic underground actress.
- New footage of the 1924 World Series discovered.
- Researchers find the origin of AIDS in the 1920s.
- The enema button: an 18th-century fashion must.
- A disease that travels across the Pacific via wind?
- Surprise: Historians dislike Bill O’Reilley’s new book.
*Featured image: Wellcome Library, London, “A practitioner of mesmerism using animal magnetism on a woman who responds with convulsions.” Wood engraving. Mesmer, Franz Anton 1734-1815.
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.