By: pendari

Mary Fissell talk on 'The lobster and the mother-in-law', Georgetown University, September 23
September 7, 2014

Prof Mary Fissell will deliver a talk on ‘The Lobster and the Mother-in-Law: Making Knowledge in 17th-Century London’ at a symposium on…

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Nathaniel Comfort to deliver the 2014 Fred Sanger Lecture at the Wellcome Library
September 3, 2014

Prof Nathaniel Comfort will be at the Wellcome Library in London on October 20, 2014 at 6.30pm to deliver the Fred Sanger Lecture,…

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Jeremy Greene talks about his new book at NYAM on 18 September
September 3, 2014

If you happen to be in the New York area on September 18th, then try to find time to go hear…

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Nathaniel Comfort at the One Day University
September 3, 2014

Prof Nathaniel Comfort will be giving a lecture at the One Day University on ‘What Darwin Got Right, What Darwin Got Wrong’….

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"Are the medical humanities for sale?" asks Jeremy Greene
August 12, 2014

Jeremy Greene’s latest article in the Journal of Medical Humanities asks “Are the medical humanities for sale?” In November of 1959, William…

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Randy Packard in NEJM
August 1, 2014

Check out the July 31, 2014 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine to read and listen to Prof Randy Packard’s…

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Julia Cummiskey in Social History of Medicine
July 23, 2014

Grad student Julia Cummiskey’s paper ‘Drugs, Race and Tuberculosis Control in Baltimore, 1950-1978’, is now available on advanced access in Social History of…

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Blossom in the spotlight
July 14, 2014

The Institute’s Associate Director Christine Ruggere talks to the Johns Hopkins Magazine about our snippet of Blossom’s hair and other smallpox vaccination…

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Mary Fissell's "obsession" with a sex manual
June 25, 2014

Prof Mary Fissell’s current research project and the topic of her next book has caught the attention of the Johns Hopkins…

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Mary Fissell is a keynote speaker at Early Modern Women, Religion, and the Body conference
June 20, 2014

Prof Mary Fissell will give a keynote address on July 23, 2014 at the Early Modern Women, Religion, and the Body conference at Loughborough…

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