Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The life of Jenny Marx.
- A history of the stethoscope.
- The menace of the barber shop.
- Is the war on cancer a good idea?
- A history of the family dinner in America.
- A brief history of the Sagebrush Rebellion.
- A new skeleton raises an old debate on syphilis.
- The morbid journey of Cromwell’s traveling head.
- Remember their names: Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey.
- Was Charles Dickens the first celebrity medical spokesman?
- New databases offer insights into the lives of escaped slaves.
- The problem with “always” and “never” in historical costuming.
- How Freud’s nephew got American women to embrace smoking.
- Unfinished film highlights the daily lives of black Americans in the 1960s.
- What 11 common objects would cost in 2015 if colonial taxation still existed.
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.