Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A social history of Jello-salad.
- Denver’s barbecue riot of 1898.
- How air conditioning changed the NICU.
- Awesome men’s fashion from the 1970s.
- Queer female desire in letters to Dr. Kinsey.
- Diary of a 19th-century asylum superintendent.
- 16 “spiffy” words college students used in 1916.
- Everything you know about the chastity belt is a lie.
- The strange saga of George Washington’s bedpan.
- Watermelons looked very different in the 17th century.
- 15 historic diseases that competed with the bubonic plague.
- The anxiety over Tinder is part of a long history of sex panics.
- Selling American women on the first at-home pregnancy tests.
- How lesbians cared for and fought for gay men during the AIDS crisis.
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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