Sunday Morning Medicine
Jacqueline AntonovichA weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The macho sperm myth.
- How to do witchcraft for real.
- Poems in the language of death.
- The Lizzie Borden house is up for sale.
- Get in losers, we’re singing sea shanties.
- The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo.
- A history of Latin America through rock music.
- Meet Alberta King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s mother.
- The history of the death penalty in the United States.
- An oral history of the Bed, Bath, and Beyond coupon.
- Helen Keller conspiracy theories are awash with ableism.
- The secret letters of history’s first-known businesswomen.
- The most scandalous film ever (not) shown in Washington.
- History tells us vaccines alone aren’t enough to eradicate a virus.
- The internet’s most incredible collection of food history has been saved.
Featured image caption: United States Office Of War Information, Smith, Roger, photographer. Government urges vaccinations. As a preventative against the danger of smallpox, diptheria and typhoid, health officials in Washington last week began giving free inoculations to federal employees. Photo shows Miss Norma T. Roberts of the Office of War Information OWI being vaccinated by Dr. C.C Dauer of the District Health Department. (Courtesy Library of Congress)
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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