Sunday Morning Medicine

The history of the wandering womb.
Presidential courtships throughout history.
What day of the week are you most likely to die in a hospital’s care?
Graphing every idea in history.
The history of the exclamation point!
Maps!
New documentary explores death and the Civil War.
Parents eat more fat.
Pubic hair exists for a reason, according to science.

Sunday Morning Medicine

Awesome Abe Lincoln.
Kids’ chemistry sets used to be way cooler (and way more dangerous)!
Revolutionary War tune found in the pages of a school boy’s math book.
Is the Komen Foundation misleading women?
The 1948 Olympics and the Flying Housewife.
Medical Muckraking .

Sunday Morning Medicine

A short history of unusual sex practices.
The long, strange journey of Eva Peron’s body.
Visual depictions of Sherlock Holmes throughout history.
Live pigeon shooting and other now defunct Olympic events.
A female condom fashion show.
A history of optical toys.

Sunday Morning Medicine

Black neighborhoods in Elizabethan London
France’s Belle Epoch leaves traces of radium all over Paris.
Is it easier to be a pregnant CEO or a pregnant maid? (hint: the answer is obvious.)
Whooping Cough makes a strong and scary comeback.
Have we found the remains of Mona Lisa?

Sunday Morning Medicine

The Berlin Wall as a medical cure?
Women’s struggle over sterilization.
The enslaved Master Chefs of Thomas Jefferson.
Massive slave burial ground found in the Caribbean.
How contraception could save thousands of lives around the world.
Oh, those “distracting” rape crisis centers.

Sunday Morning Medicine

Lost and found report cards.
Probably the most disturbing feminine hygiene ad ever (and as gender historians, we’ve seen many).
Did you celebrate Independence Day? These suffragettes did not.
20th century author Anaïs Nin insisted on poetry in her erotic fiction.

Fairy Soap Commercial, a grl sitting on the soap under green background

Sunday Morning Medicine

The toxic history of preserving body parts.
The story of the modern toilet.
AHA roundtable on the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Health Care Act.
Whatever happened to Stonewall Jackson’s arm?
The very recent and surprising history of pink and blue as gender signifiers.
Masculinity and submission.

Commercial on the wall, Bile Beans keep you healthy,

Sunday Morning Medicine

The computer your viewing this on was brought to you by a gay man.
Want to date like it’s 1938? Here’s a handy guide!
The long (and quite technical) history of the espresso machine.
The very first drinking song discovered?
The mystery of Dolly Madison’s red dress.
Were nuns too sexy in the Middle Ages?

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Sunday Morning Medicine

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