Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- TV and the bomb.
- Exploring IQ tests in 1911.
- Van Gogh’s French asylum.
- The Birds and Bees in China.
- The gay history of British royals.
- The rare blue the Maya invented.
- Rediscovering a Founding Mother.
- New York City and the history of LSD.
- Charwomen and the history of dusting.
- The story behind LBJ’s wild ex-president hair.
- Facebook is deleting alternative health pages.
- 7 amazing women who made it easier for you to have sex.
- How did Irish single mothers fare after emigrating to Britain?
- The most famous lesbian photographer you’ve never heard of.
- Just for fun: unfortunate interior design throughout modern history.
- Grave robbing, black cemeteries, and the American medical school.
- When the U.S. tried to replace migrant farm workers with high schoolers.
Featured image caption: Leaflet advertising Koko shampoo and Pino hair colour. It would probably have been inserted in a popular magazine in 1909. (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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