Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A history of desserts.
- The history of toothpaste.
- Selling dead people’s things.
- The history of American fear.
- Civil War soldiers who glowed.
- Returning the wandering womb.
- The “macaroni” scandal of 1772.
- Why disability studies for archives?
- How to write about criminal women.
- How science is saving ballet dancers.
- The rare woman in the rare-book trade.
- Charles Dickens, public health pioneer?
- A 60-year-old novel about sexual harassment.
- How cannabis became a “drug” in South Africa.
- The man who believed nudity should be a civil right.
- The Tumblr bloggers building a canon of asexual history.
- Uncovering the history of two lesbians in midcentury Chicago.
Featured image caption: Gari Melchers, “Maternity.” (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.