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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
Sep
26
Maya Koretzky of Johns Hopkins University will present "Some Beauty and Meaning from these Ashes": AIDS, Intimacy, and Everyday Experience in 20th C...
Sep
30
Dr. Tom Quick of the University of Manchester will present "Once Bitten: Madness, Mosquito Breeding, and Early Ecological Malariology" at a brownbag...
Oct
01
Paul U. Unschuld of Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin will present "The Ancient Chinese Medical Classics: Neglected Sources, Surprising Modernity,...
Oct
10
Laura Beers of American University will present "Both Feminist and Practical Politics: The Incorporation of Infertility Treatment into Family...