Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- The lost art of sin-eating.
- San Francisco’s plague years.
- On the history of the artificial womb.
- The fatphobic myth behind baby fat.
- How to lose weight like a chess player.
- The revolutionary history of mooncakes.
- Lobotomy, science, and the digital humanities.
- The many faces of women who identify as witches.
- New game is an inspiring journey through ancient Greece.
- Johns Hopkins opens new center for psychedelic research.
- The surprising gender bias on display in museum’s animal exhibitions.
- How college dorms evolved to fit America’s gender and racial politics.
- Why don’t we know the names of America’s cruelest, richest slave traders?
- 1946 map shows how Native American trails became the streets of Brooklyn.
- Historians push to create public archive of documents from opioid litigation.
Featured image caption: A baker and his wife weighing their baby, representing an advertisement for “Boulangère” chicory. (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.