Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Historians in action films.
- Mermaids have always been black.
- The CIA’s top secret anti-poop diet.
- The twisty history of paternity testing.
- The electrifying history of the air guitar.
- An oral history of the early trans internet.
- Before the internet, cable TV was for porn.
- A 100-year-old IRA archive found in an attic.
- The problem with diagnosing OCD in the past.
- Before Uncle Sam, there was Brother Jonathan.
- A history of fights over “authentic” Chinese food.
- Scottish military suicide in the long twentieth century.
- The Border Patrol has been a cult of brutality since 1924.
- The long, complicated history of black cinema in Chicago.
Featured image caption: Mother, Queen of home. (Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Collections)
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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.