Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The deadly story of poison.
- Best practices in period activism.
- The disappearance of Eve and Sall.
- Hip-hop’s Afrofuturistic Hive Mind.
- The 1990s anti-racist action network.
- The commercial that killed a fast food chain.
- Black cowboys reclaim their history in the West.
- “Follow the science,” but explain and apologize.
- In 1841, pneumonia killed the president in 31 days.
- The overlooked queer history of medieval Christianity.
- A history of transphobia in the medical establishment.
- The case for ending the Supreme Court as we know it.
- How a deaf, silent film actor pioneered closed captioning.
- Reversing the erasure of Native contributions to muralism.
- The sulfonamide revolution and children’s health care delivery.
- Building the commemorative landscape 21st-century America needs.
Featured image caption: Booklet of popular songs with advertisements for Alka-Seltzer and other medicines. Miles Laboratories, 1937. (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.