Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The media’s first moral panic.
- Getting fit the 19th century way.
- Domestic violence in the 1970s.
- Parachuting beavers of the 1950s.
- 21 words that originated during WWI.
- There once was a dildo in Nantucket.
- Uncovering Jefferson’s mystery woman.
- Benjamin Franklin’s guide to food and sex.
- America’s long fascination with Virginia Dare.
- How contact lenses were made in the 1940s.
- The first legal abortion providers tell their stories.
- The American women who were anti-suffragists.
- There were fewer black men in medical school in 2014 than in 1978.
- Volunteers find unmarked graves of black Civil War soldiers in Colorado.
- Can the parking lot speak? Uncovering the history of parking in America.
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.