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Poster for Health, Medicine, & Civil Unrest conference May 4 & 5, 2018 in Baltimore. Features an image of a St. Louis Street Medic dated December 1, 2014.

Save the date: Health, Medicine, & Civil Unrest Conference, May 4-5, 2018

January 5, 2018

Save the date! When: May 4th & 5th, 2018 Where: Welch Library Building, Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, Baltimore, MD Register here: https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/health-medicine-civil-unrest/

Title slide of stained glass window. Text underneath image: Biomedicine and its consequences: History of Medicine Survey 4

Online Course: Biomedicine & its Consequences

September 21, 2017

The Online Program in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University is pleased to announce that registration is now open…

Marta Hanson starts fellowship this year in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study

September 15, 2017

For a brief summary of her book project see IAS webpage: https://www.hs.ias.edu/Hanson

Person in a blazer and collared shirt in a black-and-white portrait against a textured wall.

Jeremy Greene on Ethics at Cedars-Sinai, 9/13

September 13, 2017

Our own Jeremy Greene will give the Morganstern Lecture in History, Ethics, and Medicine at noon today at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los…

Poster for Maryland Film Festival Event Rat Film at the SNF Parkway.

Graham Mooney on Urban Health in Baltimore 9/21

September 1, 2017

Poster: “Media Medica: Medicine & the Challenge of New Media,” Johns Hopkins University, October 27–28, 2017; detailed two‑day program with opening remarks, keynote “Vital Signs: The Transformation of the Medical Record in 19th Century America,” panels on the medical record and new media, paper infrastructures, digital infrastructures, ways of writing/knowing, new media and medicine, everyday technologies, and closing commentary; registration link mediamedicacsite.wordpress.com; sponsors: Institute of the History of Medicine, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; background image of clinicians with a film camera.

Media Medica Conference October 27 & 28

August 30, 2017

SAVE THE DATE: 10/27-10/28 | CONFERENCE MEDIA MEDICA: Medicine and the Challenge of New Media www.mediamedicasite.wordpress.com Please join us October 27-28 for…

Poster with details of Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology from Fall 2017. Poster text: Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia & Special Events (HW) September 14 YULIA FRUMER, Johns Hopkins University Humanoid Robotics in Japan: A Case for the Cognitive Approach (EB) September 21 ELISE BURTON, Cambridge University The Presence of Absence: G6PD Deficiency and “Medical Archaeology” in the Middle East (HW) September 28 IVANO DAL PRETE, Yale University On the Edge of Eternity: Thinking of an Ancient Earth in Pre‑modern Europe (EB) October 5 JENNIFER TUCKER, Wesleyan University Chemical Exposure: The Victorian Alkali Industry through the Camera’s Lens (HW) October 12 HELEN ROZWADOWSKI, University of Connecticut Frontiers of Discovery: Changing Meanings of “Frontier” from Frederick Jackson Turner to John F. Kennedy and Beyond (EB) ◆ October 13–14 ◆ JOINT ATLANTIC SEMINAR FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE See: jashistofmed.wordpress.com for program and registration information (EB) October 19 GEORGE WEISZ, McGill University International Research Policy and the Emergence of the New Global Health 1974–1997 (EB) October 26 VICTOR BRATTBERG, University of Arizona and JEREMY GREENE, Johns Hopkins University Innovation on the Reservation: Information Technology and Health Systems Research in the Tohono O’odham Nation (EB & HW) ◆ October 27–28 ◆ MEDIA MEDICA CONFERENCE Oct. 27: Hurd Hall, Johns Hopkins Hospital & Welch Library Building Oct. 28: Levering Hall, Homewood campus For program and registration information, see: mediamedicaconfsite.wordpress.com (HW) November 2 MONICA AZZOLINI, University of Edinburgh Skirting Disaster: The Making of Patron Saints of Earthquakes in Early Modern Italy and Beyond [No paper] Co‑sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Pre‑Modern Europe 3 pm, Arellano Theater, Levering Hall (HW) November 16 DANIEL TODES, Johns Hopkins University and ELEONORA FILIPPOVA, Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences Prayer as Paradigm: Aleksei Ukhtomsky, Old Belief Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Physiology of Attention [No paper] (EB) November 30 MICHAEL LIU, Academia Sinica The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Cold War East Asia NOTE: Colloquia are conducted on the basis of pre‑circulated papers, unless indicated [no paper] For copies please contact: (EB) Ms. Marian Robbins (410) 955‑3662 mwrobbins@jhmi.edu (HW) Ms. Danielle Stout (410) 516‑7501 danielle@jhu.edu Meetings will be held on Thursdays at 3:00–4:30 p.m. at either: (EB) Institute of the History of Medicine Seminar Room, 3rd floor Welch Medical Library Building, East Baltimore Campus or (HW) Department of the History of Science & Technology, 300 Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus For schedule updates & other information, please check: https://www.hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events Image credits (small print at bottom): Images from: Men of the Day, No. 33, “Natural Selection,” Vanity Fair (London), Sept. 30, 1871, engraved by The Photo‑gravure Laboratories, Inc., ca. 1930s; Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Print Dept., 1930.78; Gift of S.K. Hanksley, Vann Tyor, & L.S. Measley. Medium by Richard Ellis from the Private Library of William J. Sallivan, Jr.

Colloquia & Special Events Fall 2017

August 30, 2017

James Flowers presenting at podium. Slide behind him has text: Confucianism and Healing in Korea, 1910-1945. ICTAM IX, Kiel, Germany

James Flowers presented at 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines

August 24, 2017

On August 10, 2017, our grad student James Flowers presented at the 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines, in University of…

Ayah Nuriddin in Nursing Clio

June 30, 2017

Ph.D. candidate Ayah Nuriddin recently published an essay on Nursing Clio, “The Black Politics of Eugenics.” In it, Ayah examines the complicated history…

Sam Scharff Wins ADMSEP Poster Award