Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Secrets of a brothel privy.
- Susan B. Anthony’s bad food.
- A woman on Mount Rushmore?
- The history of the “ideal” woman.
- Lena Dunham’s lesson for doctors.
- Why black disability history matters.
- Walking in Harriet Tubman’s footsteps.
- Key concepts and research in bioethics.
- Women’s Experiences of Trauma in WWI.
- Barbers and advertising in the 18th century.
- Opiates and 18th-century domestic distress.
- The strange 100-year history of daylight saving time.
- Oh my god, Becky, look at her 18th-century false rump.
- The woman who prevented an epidemic of birth defects.
- Echoes of the Fugitive Slave Act in today’s immigration debate.
- Trans and non-binary people must be part of abortion conversations.
Featured image caption: All in search of health should wear Harness’ electropathic belts: scientifically constructed for new life and vigor. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
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.