Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Sex, art, and misogyny.
- The first mom in space.
- A tale of two suffragists.
- What killed Prince Albert?
- A history of American beef.
- Was Shakespeare a woman?
- PTSD and the American Civil War.
- Escaping the corset in South Korea.
- The last queen of Greenwich Village.
- An indigenous take on the Oregon Trail game.
- Ancestry.com, genealogy, and white supremacy.
- The long and tangled history of Alfred E. Neuman.
- Planned Parenthood and the “unfairness in our system.”
- Did you take folic acid during pregnancy? Thank Lucy Wills.
- A history of cribs and other inventions to get babies to sleep.
- Smallpox, polio, and the haggling behind two medical triumphs.
Featured image caption: Vachon, John, photographer. Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid innoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas. San Augustine County Texas United States, 1943. (Courtesy Library of Congress)
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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