Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Love in post-war Italy.
- Frederick Douglass in Ireland.
- 1930s predictions for the future.
- A Selma landmark sits in shambles.
- The Census Bureau angers academics.
- How the Civil War created college football.
- Hitler’s old house gives Austria a headache.
- The police were created to control the poor.
- Japan’s “vagina artist” charged with obscenity.
- Making the case for history in medical education.
- Will Reagan’s attempted assassin face new charges?
- A 1930s African American “cult” still survives in Philly.
- The top-selling history books of 2014 will depress you.
- Remembering the pioneering audiologist, Marion Downs.
Photo Credit: Wellcome Library, London. A fashionable dentist’s practice: healthy teeth are being extracted from poor children to create dentures for the wealthy. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
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.