Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Cholera 101.
- Stonewall at 50.
- Call the (Roman) midwife.
- Children of the poisoned river.
- An oral history of Ms. Magazine.
- A history of American political humor.
- How medical researchers used to party.
- A history of feminist anti-prison activism.
- Child-killing demons and uterus amulets.
- Anti-drug propaganda for 1960s families.
- A history of Chinese restaurants in Canada.
- Last survivor of US slave ships discovered.
- Chinese immigrants helped build California.
- The impossible quest to build a better breast pump.
- Why history looks different through a mother’s eyes.
- Victorian novelists and the search for non-toxic manhood.
- The black scholar who gave up her family to earn her Ph.D.
- How Northern Ireland’s doctors and nurses coped with the Troubles.
- Meet Robert Smalls, an enslaved man who stole a Confederate warship.
Featured image caption: “When I was sick and lay a-bed I had two pillows at my head.” (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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