Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Madhouse genetics.
- The history of the bidet.
- The great big pumpkin fight.
- Why fascists hate masturbation.
- What caused the Salem witch trials?
- How furious women shaped our history.
- Aging can be hard on trans community.
- The long history of lavender as medicine.
- A call to include art in pre-med education.
- How HBO is changing sex scenes forever.
- An astonishing Holocaust diary resurfaces.
- A brief Halloween history of pets in costumes.
- The medievalist who fought Nazis with history.
- A new museum opens old wounds in Germany.
- FDA targets website that mails abortion pills to women.
- Why England once forced everyone to be buried in wool.
- Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination.
- Dissection, emotion, and the public good in 19th-century surgery.
- “Healthstorian” travels Virginia in vintage camper capturing history.
Featured image caption: “Ayer’s Cathartic Pills, a safe, pleasant and reliable Family Medicine,” William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards. (Courtesy New York Academy of Medicine)
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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