Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Slavery and fashion.
- Good animals, bad humans?
- Why do we pledge allegiance?
- How art embraced nakedness.
- The poetry of Victorian science.
- Victorians and their magic lanterns.
- When slavery is erased from plantations.
- Why don’t more boys read Little Women?
- “The Yellow Wallpaper” and women’s pain.
- Did New York City botch the 1918 flu response?
- This museum doesn’t want Instagram or crowds.
- The history of the adolescent woman’s bedroom.
- How survivors of Stalinism created a new cuisine.
- Visual representation of the police in the 19th century.
- Take down monuments to Native American oppression.
- The dilemma of photography at traumatic heritage sites.
- Slavery, family separation, and the ransom case of John Weems.
- Culture in the colonial classroom: a failed attempt at assimilation.
Featured image caption: Team-work against the “Flu.” Beverly, Mass. Influenza broke out in February of this year, with dreadful weather conditions prevailing, but preparations to fight an epidemic of this sort had been made in advance by the cooperation of the Board of Health, the Public Health Dispensary, the Health Center, and the Red Cross. When the visitation came, all was in readiness to combat it. Volunteers were notified to register at the Public Health Dispensary; food was to be at the Health Center, while supplies of linen, blankets, and clothing were to be given out and transportation arranged for at the Red Cross office. The picture above shows a party of helpers starting from Red Cross headquarters with blankets and other supplies for the sick. Beverly Massachusetts United States, 1920. (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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