Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Red dead suffragettes.
- American Nazis in the 1930s.
- A history of the medical book.
- Childbirth in the age of addiction.
- Life span has little to do with genes.
- 8 dishes made by notorious poisoners.
- Period tracking apps are not for women.
- It’s fall, which means it’s time for gonorrhea.
- Wealthy families and their personal historians.
- Chiropractors and misleading medical websites.
- The history of poison and stereotypical narratives.
- The sneaky history of why women started shaving.
- A reporter’s weirdly funny story of taking opium in 1861.
- LGBT tours offer a new way of looking at old museums.
- Victoria’s Secret and the slow death of retail’s male gaze.
- Broomsticks and material cultures of cleanliness in American slavery.
- Using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photos.
Featured image caption: “Parker’s Ginger Tonic: the Best Health and Strength Restorer,” 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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