Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
Nursing ClioA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- How pandemics change history
- The story behind Rosa Parks and yoga.
- How fortune-telling took hold in Australia.
- Listen to Vietnam’s catchy coronavirus PSA.
- Amazing poster art from the “golden age” of magic.
- “The Afronauts” of Zambia’s 1960s space program.
- The horrors of San Francisco’s deadly foundling asylum.
- “Typhoid junkie”: controversies over contagion and cure.
- Berlin to compensate victims of pedophile foster scheme.
- The latent racism of the Better Homes in America program.
- Cartoonists take on the coronavirus with sympathy and humor.
- Why Asians in masks should not be the “face” of the coronavirus.
- A brand-new vocabulary to describe life in a male-dominated world.
- Meet the Iowa architect documenting every slave house still standing.
- Historical photos of native women highlight sexism, racism and colonialism.
Featured image caption: ‘Sphagnol soap’ cake, London, England, 1945-1960. (Courtesy Science Museum, London)
