Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- A brief history of ramen.
- A mini history of the tiny purse.
- The world that Jazzercise built.
- A hidden history of Father’s Day.
- C-section viewing parties in Brazil.
- No one talks about perimenopause.
- The cynical politics of Donald Duck.
- A brief history of sex in Ancient Rome.
- Exploring the lesbian herstory archives.
- Why did Henry VIII divorce Anne of Cleves.
- Melissa Cargill, The Grateful Dead, and LSD.
- Rashes to research: the 1964 rubella epidemic.
- How men’s bodies change when they become fathers.
- Frida Kahlo’s only known voice recording possibly found.
- The 19th-century lesbian made for 21st-century consumption.
Featured image caption: A man on a bicycle with a physician riding pillion; advertising the film, When Father Fetched the Doctor. (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.