signal boost: Nursing Clio

[jesse_the_k]

Nursing Clio is a fascinating site, "an open access, peer-reviewed, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender and medicine." Its name honors Clio, the muse of History in Greek Mythology, and declares the double intention to nurture history and document the caring and power of nursing.

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Two brief tastes

The analysis of this eloquent illustration also serves as an excellent image description, Witness to Pain: The Migraine Art Collection

Writer Joan Didion famously described migraine in terms of “a guerrilla war” with her own domestic life. This daily battle with migraine—particularly for women—is vividly portrayed in the collection. A shaking, nauseous woman holds her mouth as she cooks breakfast. Smoke billows from burning tomatoes and sausages, a saucepan boils over, the trashcan and laundry basket overflow, the dishes pile up. Surrounded by the chaos of things she needs to do, notes taped to the walls remind her of all the things she must not do. The shelf is crowded with pill boxes and medicine bottles. Such an unhappy relationship with medication is a common theme in the collection.

Why the colonial history of St Kitts resonates with its current herpes vaccine tourism

Like many former slave colonies in the Caribbean, St. Kitts and its sister island Nevis are popular tourist destinations. The islands are also home to several medical universities. That is to say, tourism and the healthcare industry are the islands’ main sources of revenue. Medical research and “medical tourism,” in which people travel to the island to receive more affordable and otherwise superior medical treatment than they would in their home country, also contribute to the islands’ economic growth. In 2015, Dr. Patrick Martin, a native of the island and its Chief Medical Officer (CMO) from 2004 to 2016, spoke out in favor of stem cell tourism.

Nursing Clio’s resources pages provide even more lively reading at the intersection of medicine and politics, broadly conceived — connections to archives, discussions, and platforms that explore women, health, race, disability and history.

https://nursingclio.org/resources/

(I've just added nursingclio_feed to my Dreamwidth feed reader -- it will take a few days to update.)

Comments

[esteefee]

the migraine link doesn't work but it sounds fascinating, as does the whole site, thanks!

Perfect icon is perfect

[jesse_the_k]

thanks for the catch!

https://nursingclio.org/2019/07/09/witness-to-pain-the-migraine-art-collection/

Re: Perfect icon is perfect

[esteefee]

Awesome, thanks!