Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
Nursing ClioA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The end of men, in 1870.
- A medieval new England.
- How herpes became a sexual boogeyman.
- Artificial intelligence has a gender problem.
- The photographer who x-rayed Chernobyl.
- How today’s queer artists are revising history.
- How male bias in medical trials ruined women’s health.
- Study reframes the history of LGBT mental health care.
- A history of the plague in China, from ancient times to Mao.
- Police violence could be harming the health of black infants.
- Guatemalan adoptees learn they were fraudulently given away.
- Research reveals white women made up 40% of slave-owners.
- A 1970 law led to the mass sterilization of Native American women.
- The extraordinary danger of being pregnant and uninsured in Texas.
- Wedding sites will stop promoting content that romanticizes plantations.
- This may be the earliest known image of enslaved individuals with cotton.
- Spinster, old maid or self-partnered – the history of words for single women.
Featured image caption: “Keep fit,” George Arents Collection, The New York Public Library. (Courtesy New York Public Library Digital Collections)
