Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Elvis in the box.
- “Are you popular?”
- Skating on stolen land.
- Jingle Dress Dancers and pandemics.
- Cannabis in the 1950s British tabloids.
- The hidden Black history of Lovecraft Country.
- Gerald Ford rushed out a vaccine. It was a fiasco.
- One sperm donor. 36 children. A mess of lawsuits.
- Fag Rag: The ’70s paper of gay political revolution.
- Race, medicine, and the origins of American psychiatry.
- These Black women were roller-skating way before TikTok.
- Air pollution films and environmental awareness, 1960–1972.
- A 1500s “miracle cure” made from trees probably didn’t cure syphilis.
- Feminists take over federal building in Mexico and use painting as a weapon.
Featured image caption: Advertisment for Bailey’s room couches and scales. (Courtesy Wellcome Collection)
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.
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