Nursing Clio

A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news

• • 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.