Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Diagnosing the past.
- An epidemic of plagues.
- The medical imagination.
- The history of surgical gloves.
- The fight for Betty Boop’s soul.
- Demolishing the California dream.
- Teeth whitening in the Victorian Era.
- A forgotten soldier on a forgotten front.
- What we know about art and the mind.
- The culture war that was fought in the sky.
- A new African American art history initiative.
- When black farms blossomed on the frontier.
- The surprisingly dark history of the color pink.
- Women at the center of China’s revolutionary history.
- American refugees and the United Church of Canada.
- The mystical practice that preceded medical anesthesia.
- “Axis Sally” brought jazz to the Nazi propaganda machine.
- The therapy that involved months of motionless milk drinking.
Featured image caption: Family Planning. (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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