Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Sinister hunger stones.
- Abandoning “addiction.”
- A history of supper clubs.
- A short history of terrible diets.
- How WWI transformed the art world.
- Nazi Germany as a travel destination.
- When was the earliest internet search?
- The ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic orphanage.
- Sex, religion, and a towering treatise on anatomy.
- A surprisingly disgusting history of lemonade stands.
- That time a woman rode Aristotle around like a horse.
- Medieval gaming board provides clue to lost monastery.
- Occupation board game found in attic pokes fun at Nazis.
- LGBT heritage districts strive to preserve vanishing culture.
- Did canals and trains make 19th-century Americans smaller?
- It came from the 70s: the story of your grandma’s weird couch.
- How the South memorializes — and forgets — its history of lynching.
- The 20th anniversary of one of America’s most popular sex ed books.
- Ragged beards or smooth skin: the changing face of men’s cosmetics.
Featured image caption: If you wish perfect health, use the National Bitters. (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.
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