Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Defunding the (drug) police.
- The literary life of Octavia E. Butler.
- The last children of Down syndrome.
- The quiet history of lesbian pulp fiction.
- The early modern precursor to turducken.
- Our long-running love affair with pigeons.
- The peculiar role of America’s First Ladies.
- How two French introverts quietly fought the Nazis.
- Patsy Takemoto Mink blazed the trail for Kamala Harris.
- What the lullabies we sing to our children reveal about us.
- Airborne infection control in 20th-century peace and war.
- Where is the Smithsonian museum for American Latinos?
- A nonfiction comic about historical racial health disparities.
- How telemedicine startups are revolutionizing abortion health care.
- IBM apologizes for firing transgender computer pioneer…52 years later.
- How teens helped secure Washington’s Prop 90 sex education mandate.
Featured image caption: Left face of a man suffering from smallpox; (right) vaccination against smallpox. Colour process print. (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.