Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
Nursing ClioA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Amazon women were real.
- A midwife in North Country.
- The dark history of hysteria.
- A history of war in six drugs.
- The fight to decolonize the museum.
- Tapeworms, arsenic and magic soap.
- Chinese health and hygiene puzzle blocks.
- Dispatches from deaf education’s infancy.
- The year that changed San Francisco forever.
- What were the best history movies of the decade?
- A bad cup of tea and the birth of modern statistics.
- The grooming gap: what “looking the part” costs women.
- An odd health movement you’ve probably never heard of.
- A history of anti-fascist punk around the world in 9 songs.
- The history behind one of America’s most beloved desserts.
- Babies are being born into smoky delivery rooms in Australia.
Featured image caption: An American physician of the late nineteenth century, with his doctor’s bag and horse and buggy; advertising the medicine “Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery.” Colour lithograph by E.C. Pease, 1910. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
