Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Elizabeth I’s love life.
- A history of buffalo wings.
- Queering the black press.
- A history of the pap smear.
- A brief history of lesbian sex on TV.
- When sun dogs changed England.
- The man who defined drunk driving.
- The rise and fall of the sleeping car king.
- The modern tragedy of fake cancer cures.
- How Cutex hooked Americans on manicures.
- The history of women in sci-fi isn’t what you think.
- The US Army and the history of cigarette addiction.
- A history of L.A.’s gay bar scene, told in matchbooks.
- On medical cadaver dissection, power, and inequality.
- Long lines in women’s bathrooms is a design problem.
- When the suffrage movement sold out to white supremacy.
- Can a medieval video game can help us think about the past?
Featured image caption: Try your bumps: buy Hudson’s soap in dozens. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
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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