Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of women fighting wildfires.
- Was the real Lone Ranger a black man?
- Collecting data about tuberculosis in 1900.
- The court case that killed the “ladies menu.”
- When women channeled the dead to be heard.
- The true story of Waco is still one of contention.
- This artist poses nude at former slave-trade sites.
- Archelus H. Mitchell and his 1916 anesthesia machine.
- Why a 73-year-old gay pool party shook us to the core.
- A US immigration history of white supremacy and ableism.
- After 400 years lost, Spain’s cursed novel is finally published.
- Medical schools must atone for their role in the cadaver trade.
- Mysterious circle of intertwined skeletons found by archeologists.
- What should we have the right to know about a President’s health?
- What’s the real story about the milkmaid and the smallpox vaccine?
Featured image caption: Photograph shows William Charles Flynn, a winner of perfect “eugenic baby” contests. (Courtesy Library of Congress)
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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