Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The testosterone myth.
- Rube Goldberg got tech right.
- The history of the wolf-whistle.
- Archives and dumping grounds.
- On the misuses of medical history.
- The curious origins of the dollar sign.
- A brief history of breasts for pleasure.
- What it means to study food at an HBCU.
- Solving a medical mystery with ora traditions.
- The history of suffragist dining spaces in the U.S.
- Enslaved people and divorce in the African diaspora.
- The black woman who biked across the US in the 1930s.
- How should we archive the soundtrack to 1970s feminism?
- When Americans believed Buddhism was a dangerous cult.
- Teen Boss magazine for girls is a thing that exists, apparently.
- Why “historical accuracy” is a bad excuse for sexual assault in fantasy.
Featured image caption: Public information notice, featuring a diphtheria quarantine card. (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.