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Founded in 1929, we are the oldest academic department of the History of Medicine in the English-speaking world. We are dedicated to scholarship on the histories of medicine, disease, the health sciences, and their relationships to society.
Noteworthy
On May 10, 2019, Graduate student scholar Ayah Nuriddin was inducted into the Johns Hopkins innaugural class of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honors Society. Named for the first African American in the United States to receive a PhD, the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society seeks to develop a network of pre-...
The Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins is proud to introduce new online CME modules that provide a historical perspective on issues of relevance to clinical practice today. Our first module, which launched in January 2018, explores the social, political, and economic forces that continue to shape the dynamic boundaries of the medical profession. Medical professionalism is...
Reviews in History has named Dept. Chair Randall Packard's The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria (JHUP, 2007) one of the most significant and or influential history books of the last twenty years: http://blog.history.ac.uk/2016/12/reviews-in-history-20th-...
Events
Feb
20
Dr. Laura Hirshbein of the University of Michigan will present "Assessing the Conduct of Juveniles: Behavior Disorder Categories, 1900-2013" on...
Feb
21
Please rsvp by email to myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: Rethinking Greek Heritage: Translation, Practice, and the Making of a Medical Archive
Who: ...
Title: Rethinking Greek Heritage: Translation, Practice, and the Making of a Medical Archive
Who: ...
Mar
05
Sarah Zanolini of Johns Hopkins University will present "Assimilating "Foreign Yams" into Early Modern Chinese Diets" on Thursday, March 5th as part...
Apr
09
Michael Healey of Johns Hopkins University will present "Maladjustment and the Milieu: Thomas Rennie, Parergasia, and the Meyerian Origins of Social...