Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The history of blood.
- Jack the Ripper outdone.
- The treasure behind the wall.
- Saving black feminist classics.
- America is failing its black mothers.
- A history of seasonal affective disorder.
- The accidental invention of bubble wrap.
- The archiving of black women’s sexual lives.
- Public dissection was a gruesome spectacle.
- I was a 4-year-old trapped in a teenager’s body.
- #MeToo, networks of complicity, and the 1920s Klan.
- When the “back alley” was safe and south of the border.
- The complex link between prohibition and women’s rights.
- A drug that eases miscarriages is difficult for women to get.
- Diverse portraits of the turn-of-the-century American South.
- Did the Nazi’s have a blueprint for a North American holocaust?
- From Lucky Strikes to tapeworms: 7 historical weight loss schemes.
Featured image caption: Dr. Morse’s Compound Syrup of Yellow Dock Root. (Courtesy The 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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