Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Lady Death.
- “We all expected to die.”
- Scope Magazine (1941-1957).
- Tear gas and the U.S. border.
- The story of the pile of limbs.
- The boy left behind in Nazi Vienna.
- Daisy, Daisy, the Cycling Countess.
- The forgotten abortion-rights activist.
- Presumed heterosexuality in the archives.
- Why do Americans eat three meals a day?
- A new clue into the secrets of the 1918 flu?
- Gynecology and the ungendering of black women.
- The woman who signed the Declaration of Independence.
- The glamorous, sexist history of the women’s restroom lounge.
- Did Queen Elizabeth’s face powder poison her? It’s complicated.
- Victorians feared modern technology would make everyone blind.
Featured image caption: Exercise 10. To attain suppleness. (Courtesy New York Public Library)
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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