Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- The first gay cookbook.
- The fast and the feminine.
- Explore the Disney morgue.
- The deadly history of nostalgia.
- Roanoke made me queer again.
- The rise and fall of the waterbed.
- Your tampon could save your life.
- The women who brought you LSD.
- Stepford wives of the 19th century.
- Anne Frank hid risqué jokes in her diary.
- Time is running out for treating gonorrhoea.
- The curious history of mommy-and-me fashion.
- The pansy craze: a history of gay nightlife in Los Angeles.
- Honoring female baseball players by wearing their lipstick?
- Today is the 50th anniversary of Hitachi’s Magic Wand vibrator.
- The murder case that gave Americans the right to remain silent.
- The woman who started the “single women and cats” stereotype.
Featured image caption: A description of the vibrator and directions for use by C.H. Liedbeck. (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.
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