Announcements – Page 3 – Department of the History of Medicine

Elizabeth O’Brien receives the 2020 Forum for History of Human Science Dissertation Prize

September 3, 2020

Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth O’Brien, recipient of the 2020 Forum for History of Human Science Dissertation Prize! Dr. O’Brien received the…

Graham Mooney publishes article in the New England Journal of Medicine

September 2, 2020

Our own Graham Mooney publishes, ‘“A Menace to the Public Health” — Contact Tracing and the Limits of Persuasion‘ in the…

Marta Hanson publishes article in Current History

August 20, 2020

Marta Hanson examines the discourses of weakness in “From Sick Man of Asia to Sick Uncle Sam,” published in the latest…

Jeremy Greene co-authors article in JAMA

August 5, 2020

Dr. Jeremy Greene co-authors “Attacks on Public Health Officials During COVID-19” with Michelle Mello and Joshua Scharfstein in the Journal of…

Elizabeth O’Brien awarded NEH grant

July 29, 2020

Delighted to announce that Elizabeth O’Brien was awarded a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and…

Ayah Nuriddin interviewed in the Washington Post

July 21, 2020

Our own Ayah Nuriddin provides historical insights to the entanglements of race, eugenics, and reproduction, faced by Planned Parenthood. Read the…

Nathaniel Comfort publishes in the Philadelphia Inquirer

June 24, 2020

Professor Nathaniel Comfort discusses uncertainty, epidemics, and the open-ended quality of biomedical and public health research in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Recent PhD James Flowers publishes article in Social History of Medicine

January 28, 2020

“Hanbang Healing for the World: The Eastern Medicine Renaissance in 1930s Japan-ruled Korea” is an article based on one of his dissertation…

Department PhD, C. Pierce Salguero, published 2 books on Buddhism & Medicine

January 2, 2020

In the past two years, Dr. Salguero completed the editing of two books through Columbia University Press: Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern…

Ayah Nuriddin first Humanities scholar inducted into Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honors Society, Johns Hopkins chapter

May 10, 2019

On May 10, 2019, Graduate student scholar Ayah Nuriddin was inducted into the Johns Hopkins innaugural class of the Edward A….

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