Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Beyond Miss America 1968.
- Santa Claus and the Civil War.
- The Jonestown we don’t know.
- A complete history of the autopsy.
- Vikings, baking powder, and poets.
- The girls who signed purity pledges.
- Roasted to death on Christmas day.
- WWI and a memorial to forgetfulness.
- The deadly obsession of immortal life elixirs.
- The consequence of pain relief, then and now.
- The itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, very litigious bikini.
- The accidental history of NORAD’s Santa tracker.
- How curators are finding the climate in art history.
- The lesbian “blood sisters” who cared for gay men.
- The feminist novel that influenced Huxley and Orwell.
- The incredible cloth womb of an 18th-century midwife.
Featured image caption: Dr. Roger’s Compound Syrup Liverwort, Tar and Canchalagua. (Courtesy The New York Academy of Medicine)
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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.