Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- Party and protest.
- A history of tear gas.
- How we help the body breathe.
- Today’s Anglo-American eugenics.
- The past and future of Latinx voters.
- BleachMan says, “Clean it with Bleach!”
- The radical quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins.
- Froth, feathers, fluff: the history of the boa.
- The accidental invention of the Slip ‘N Slide.
- What’s so hard about painting Shakespeare?
- Police brutality and the LGBTQ-rights movement.
- Does tear gas is causing reproductive problems?
- Teaching HIV and Black queer studies during crisis.
- The Confederacy was an anti-democratic, centralized state.
- Periods are a source of abuse for protesters in police custody.
Featured image caption: Illustration of pharmacist administering medicine to dog at counter as owner weeps and bystanders watch with alarm, Bergrossert Fuer Licht und lasst es leuchten [from verso], William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards. (Courtesy The New York Academy of Medicine)
Jacqueline Antonovich is the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio and served as executive editor from 2012 to 2021. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.