When the global death toll of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic surpassed one million in late September, the United States and […]
Oscillating and Depreciating: Early Modern Spanish Views of Unsanctioned Female Healers
Antonio asks, “Do you believe that God will burn all of the sinners forever and ever when they die?” “Si,” […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news When the waltz went solo. A year of intersex […]
Nursing Clio Presents Its Sixth Annual Best of List
2020 has been the worst of years, but the Nursing Clio staff still found a few things to enjoy. Favorite […]
Alone, Together: Memory and Death in a Pandemic
“You’re lucky, then, that your mom died before all this began,” my friend said. “At least you got to be […]
Black Before Florence: Black Nurses, Enslaved Labor, and the British Royal Navy, 1790–1820
Throughout the eighteenth century, the British Royal Navy embarked on a scheme of hospital construction in the Atlantic World. The […]
The Rejected Ones: Indian Foundlings in Colonial Portuguese Goa
In September of 1747, Rosa de Menezes went into labor in her home in the poorest quarter of Goa, the […]
Changing the Narrative: The Importance of Centering Choice
On September 14, Dawn Wooten, a former nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, filed a whistleblower […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news It’s time for a Latino museum. Mad dogs and […]
Garbage Bags and Tomato Cans: The History of Nurses Making Basic Equipment Out of Trash
In spring 2020, images of nurses treating patients while wearing garbage bags instead of standard disposable gowns symbolized both the […]
