Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The history of “Boo!”
- Macabre scientific relics.
- A brief history of brain surgery.
- Racism and the rise of big candy.
- The fertility towns of early modern England.
- Civil War cemeteries may be leaking toxins.
- Black mothers and the birth control movement.
- How pumpkins were used in early modern medicine.
- Slashing throats for 170 years: the real Sweeney Todd.
- Why are old women often the face of evil in fairy tales?
- Betty Crocker’s absurdly beautiful Atomic-Age creations.
- Is one of the world’s rarest paintings lost somewhere in D.C.?
- The History Channel and the myth of American exceptionalism.
- The ghost-obsessed professor who became haunted by the living.
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.