Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A brief history of plaid.
- The Victorian flea circus.
- Letter writing in the asylum.
- Extreme longevity in the 1700s.
- How scams worked in the 1800s.
- The past, present, and future of tampons.
- The Rest Cure beyond the Yellow Wallpaper.
- The photos that exposed American child labor.
- The pill that hasn’t (yet) changed the politics of abortion.
- Electrocardiogram and diphtheria in the early 20th century.
- The problematic history of hunting down authentic ethnic food.
- Boiling water and bees: Fighting evictions in 19th-century Ireland.
- Why are America’s most innovative companies stuck in 1950s suburbia?
- Our Blood, Ourselves: Developing technology to help women monitor their own health.
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.