Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Children in the asylum.
- The origin of monsters.
- The history of Ouija boards.
- Save the pub or safeguard health?
- Unpregnancy and Arctic exploration.
- The early days of America’s AIDS crisis.
- Formaldehyde in milk and lead in cheese.
- When pop-up books taught popular science.
- Homefront Army doctors and VD during WWI.
- “Female pain is fetishized but never vindicated.”
- What the name “Civil War” means and why it matters.
- Women in the US can now get safe abortions by mail.
- How Victorian mansions became the default haunted house.
- The Japanese man who saved 6,000 Jews with his handwriting.
- Benjamin Franklin and history’s most dangerous musical instrument.
- The dawn of TV promised diversity. Instead we got Leave it to Beaver.
Featured image caption: A monster representing an influenza virus hitting a man over the head as he sits in his armchair. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
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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I hope you have heard about Dr. Andrea Hayes-Jordan, and Dr. Erika Adams-Newman.
They have different areas of exoertise, but their life work can show you where science would be in general if racism and sexism is removed from cultural life.