Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of the “ditz” voice.
- Menstruating while disabled.
- Vintage posters of strong women.
- The vaccine that changed the world.
- The illnesses and death of Queen Mary I.
- Super Spooner and the Witchcraft murder.
- The story of the skull found in a London pub.
- The woman who coined the term, “glass ceiling.”
- When did Americans stop marrying their cousins?
- Why so much fuss about the history of emotions?
- A larger role for midwives could improve US healthcare.
- Documenting the complex history of America’s braceros.
- Exploring the history of women at work through their clothing.
- Earliest images of breast cancer found in Renaissance paintings.
- “Fast Car” and the living histories of working-class black women.
- Uber and Lyft think they can solve one of medicine’s biggest problems.
- Watch terrified men learn to deal with women in the workforce during WWII.
Featured image caption: Hine, Lewis Wickes, “Dr. Bonness Health conference in glass house,” child welfare exhibit in St. Etienne. (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.