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http://nursingclio.org/
Nursing Clio is among a number of websites and blog projects dedicated to aspects of health and medicine in the modern world to emerge in the last decade. From its name alone, you could be forgiven for thinking that this project's particular selling point is its dedication to aspects of professional nursing, but it does in fact provide much more than that. Its content allows the online reader to explore a huge range of present-day issues relating to gender, health, and medicine and does so by relating these issues to current historical scholarship. As the "About" page explains, part of the name originates in Greek mythology: Clio is the muse of history, while "nursing" has a dual meaning: nursing, as in the profession, and nursing in the way that mothers nurse their children. This name, along with the site's accompanying tagline "the personal is historical," creatively reflects its overall purpose. Nursing Clio functions as a platform for historians, health care workers, community activists, students, and others to engage in issues including, but not limited to, the body, sexuality, and reproductive rights, and achieves its aim in providing "a coherent, intelligent, informative, and fun historical source for the consideration of these topics."
First developed in 2012 by an editorial team largely composed of history doctoral candidates and early career scholars from universities across the United States, Nursing Clio has recently been revamped and relaunched with an impressive range of easy-to-navigate features, articles, and resources. Alongside the "About" tab, tabs labeled "articles"...