Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Nursing done in wild places.
- We can thank women for beer.
- What’s the definition of health?
- The Mental Patients Union, 1973.
- When televisions were radioactive.
- Drinking gold in 16th-century France.
- The true cost of the Louisiana Purchase.
- A history of restaurant food photography.
- Remembering a crucial moment in gay history.
- The erotics of the Mexican body in a gay magazine.
- Alcohol, pregnancy, and the language of denigration.
- A 19th-century drug may be useful for cancer treatment.
- A rare look at the radical lesbian movement of the 1970s.
- Sailor’s rape confession uncovered in 17th-century journal.
- How suffragists used anti-immigrant fervor to gain the vote.
- How merit badges offer a cultural history of the United States.
- A woman’s account of her own mastectomy in the 19th century.
Featured image caption: Advert for Calvert’s “Anti Mosquito” soap showing one woman covered in mosquito’s while another is free from them. (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
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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