Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of the ice pick lobotomy.
- The story of New York’s last slave.
- The path to Griswold v. Connecticut.
- A Jewish family in 19th-century Santa Fe.
- The really interesting history of “the sneeze.”
- When National Parks had segregated facilities.
- The deadly history of “They’re raping our women.”
- How did Marie Antoinette celebrate her 21st birthday?
- The advertising history of opiates in old-timey medicines.
- Secret WWII chemical experiments tested troops by race.
- “I want my country back” and exclusionary visions of America.
- Why is Yale’s Rare-Books Library archiving old Chipotle cups?
- Why women shouldn’t be doctors (according to Victorian medical men).
- How a makeup mogul liberated women by putting them in a pretty cage.
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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