Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Fear of a gay Batman.
- Tattooing in the Civil War.
- Tulsa’s crow-eating craze.
- WTF is “freedom feminism”?
- Airbrushing out Soviet History.
- A brief history of the tube sock.
- How makeup went mainstream.
- Sex, religion, and an anatomy text.
- The British Museum’s looting problem.
- The 18th-century “skeleton suit” for boys.
- Teenage feminism decades before “girl power.”
- Modern accounting and the business of slavery.
- Transforming “conversion therapy” amid the sexual revolution.
- The often gross and rarely steamy history of sex in video games.
- Carmen Sandiego and the importance of feminism in edutainment.
- Nurses helped make us understand domestic violence as a health issue.
- On the birth of Princess Margaret and the rise of astrology as we know it.
- President Hoover deported 1 million Mexican Americans for “stealing” U.S. jobs.
Featured image caption: “How do you spell: “Coalition for the Northern Dispensary”? N.I.M.B.Y. (“Not in my back yard”). You know they wouldn’t oppose AIDS housing here if it was for white boys only.” (Courtesy New York Public Library Digital)
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.