Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- The prince of quacks.
- Too many episiotomies.
- The history of “Medicare for All.”
- Periods went public – now what?
- Plastic surgery, incels, and Chads.
- The case of a black woman serial killer.
- A history of Chicago’s lesbian fishing club.
- A Nazi textbook and a surgeon’s dilemma.
- Clarence Thomas, eugenics, and abortion.
- Lesbian artists and California’s queer history.
- The taboo history of women’s body hair in art.
- The surprisingly interesting history of milk cans.
- Queen Victoria like you’ve never seen her before.
- The artists and writers who fought racism with satire.
- Psychiatry, racism, and the birth of “Sesame Street.”
- The men who refused orders to murder Native Americans.
- How Central Park’s history played into the case against the Central Park Five.
Featured image caption: One of a set of photographs demonstrating domestic hygiene using children’s toys (playing with a ball, outdoors). (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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