Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Defoe and the Plague Year.
- Isn’t she good—for a woman?
- Remembering all of American history.
- The curious case of the Infant Sappho.
- The internet and American imperialism.
- What Bridgerton gets wrong about corsets.
- In The Gay Cookbook, domestic bliss was queer.
- Why we should all be keeping coronavirus journals.
- How fashion was forever changed by “the gay plague.”
- Curators scour Capitol for damage to the building or its art.
- Rare doctor’s note reveals Napoleon’s poor health in later years.
- Medicalizing Black military service in an age of global imperialism.
- Mortality rate for Black babies plummets when they’re delivered by Black doctors.
- Comparing the Capitol insurrection to “third-world countries” ignores U.S history.
Featured image caption: Les démoniaques dans l’art / par J.-M. Charcot et Paul Richer (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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