Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
Nursing ClioA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Black mothers matter.
- Abolitionist, activist, dwarf.
- A brief history of the crock pot.
- The best queer YA novels of 2019.
- L.A.’s gay past, told in six landmarks.
- The long history of the singular “they.”
- A feminist report from the U.S.-Mexico border.
- The Scottish sisters who pioneered Art Nouveau.
- The man who made the worst video game in history.
- The seriously sexist history of Time’s Person of the Year.
- The “forgotten” history of anti-Latino violence in the U.S.
- In England, coroners decide what is treasure and what is not.
- Harvey Weinstein and a broken promise to indigenous women.
- White ladies cooking in plantation museums are a denial of history.
- A 1979 photo book traces manspreading back to ancient civilizations.
- Gamblers, wastrels and lumberjacks: a cemetery gives up its secret history.
Featured image caption: Fold out leaflet for Faulding’s “Emu” brand Eucalyptus Oil, used on a dressing for cuts and wounds as an antiseptic, made by F. H. Faulding and Co. Ltd, Australia. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
