Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Disability, race, and art.
- The faces of World War I.
- Perfume advice for Victorians.
- A brief history of fake doctors.
- The language of American loggers.
- The Chinese survivors of the Titanic.
- (Mis)understanding a female serial killer.
- The strange history of medicinal turpentine.
- 10 historical superstitions we carry on today.
- How “Deaf President Now” changed America.
- Here’s what a world without birth control might be like.
- Pedagogical lessons for tackling the #MeToo movement.
- Remembering the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow.
- Why “nurse” Grace Poole is the greatest puzzle in Jane Eyre.
- The pickled cucumbers that survived the 1980s AIDS epidemic.
- French/Haitian sites of memory and the commemoration of abolition.
- This epic, 40-year-old feminist art piece that we’re still learning from today.
Featured image caption: A “Quack” selling Seneca Oil.” (Courtesy New York Public Library)
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.