Sunday Morning Medicine
Sunday Morning Medicine
Nursing Clio Editorial CollectiveA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Our mothers, before us.
- Dykes, Camera, Action!
- The linguistics of cooties.
- The real life Lord of the Flies.
- “Wheatless Wednesdays” in WWI.
- Plague doctor iconography in 2020.
- The grim history of counting the dead.
- A new history of being Asian-American.
- Designing the world’s first home computers.
- A mordantly funny letter from the 1918 pandemic.
- Little Richard and the real decade of sexual liberation.
- In 1950, Americans had aspic. Now we have dalgona coffee.
- How Scooby-Doo’s origins are related to the RFK assassination.
- The symbolic use of barrier contraceptives in American and English literature.
- How a West African woman became the pastry queen of Colonial Rhode Island.
Featured image caption: A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician riding a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession that scares children; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
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