Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- A diet for old age.
- The sensory history of pine.
- 9 cold remedies from history.
- The Texas archives war of 1842.
- A Viking, a sheep, and climate change.
- Sugar castles and suckling pig arches.
- Why I wanted to learn to perform abortions.
- Donald Duck: Disney’s agent of imperialism.
- A history of fences on the U.S.-Mexico divide.
- Victorian fashion dolls and the feminine ideal.
- Hey witches, John Proctor’s house is for sale.
- The secret intellectual history of mathematics.
- There may be Viagra in that herbal supplement.
- Therapy dogs can spread superbugs to children.
- The long history of men policing women’s sportswear.
- The role of circus performers in the fight for women’s suffrage.
- Ectoplasm and the last British woman tried for witchcraft (in 1944).
- How SFO’s Harvey Milk terminal will reflect history of gay activism.
Featured image caption: Gittings at “Gay Love: Good Medicine” booth. (Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Collections)
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.