Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- WWII and drug prevention.
- Rethinking love and autism.
- Do aphrodisiacs really work?
- So who really was Queen Anne?
- Eugenic love in the Progressive Era.
- A teenage social revolution in your pocket.
- 8 daring female entrepreneurs from history.
- Sperm banks, DNA testing, and donor privacy.
- Female slaveholders and equal-opportunity evil.
- Walking the runway with metastatic breast cancer.
- The enslaved people who lived with Abigail Adams.
- Just for fun: 10 awkward personal ads from yesteryear.
- The unethical behavior of forensic dentists at the border.
- Historians fight back as TV raids their research treasures.
- The secret court transcripts of America’s last mass lynching.
- Searching for the familiar in early photos of L.A. and San Francisco.
Featured image caption: A wife, her two children and a doctor stand around the bed of a man with AIDS who is attached to a drip; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Kenya National AIDS/STD Control Programme. (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.