Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Demented, happy, and useful.
- Acid and sexual psychonauts.
- How nurses learn to handle death.
- Black GIs in Saigon and “Soul Alley.”
- A cancer rap, thanks to Nina Simone.
- Who really built the first electric guitar?
- Tear gas and the U.S. border, a history.
- The women who made Edgar Allan Poe.
- How Americans tidied up before Marie Kondo.
- Woman gives herself a C-section, saves her baby.
- How Americans learned to condemn drunk driving.
- Speaking plainly about slavery in children’s books.
- What do doctors owe to the dead people they dissect?
- The culture of harassment in America’s medical schools.
- Black pioneers and the struggle for equality on the frontier.
- The politics of yellow fever in Alexander Hamilton’s America.
- Two women uncover their slave-owning ancestry, turn to reparations.
Featured image caption: Harlem Hospital Must Undergo a Thorough House Cleaning. (Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Collections)
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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