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Marta Hanson speaking at Rutgers University Feb 5
February 2, 2015

Chinese Medical Mancy: Medicine, Astrology, and Arts of Memory in Ming China

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CFP: Medicine, Translations and Histories
January 19, 2015

Medicine, Translations and Histories 11-12 June 2015, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester, UK As…

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Dan Todes's 20-year quest
December 10, 2014

Two decades and more of research into the life of Ivan Pavlov recently culminated in the publication of Dan Todes’s Ivan Pavlov: A…

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Marta Hanson giving a lecture at the University of Heidelberg Dec 2
November 28, 2014

Clusters of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context “Paratextual Portraits of Physicians: Establishing Occupational and Individual Authority in Late…

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Marta Hanson giving Keynote Lecture at Cambridge University Dec 5
November 28, 2014

Plague and the City: Disease, Epidemic Control, and the Urban Environment “Maps of Plague in East Asia as Analytical Tools and…

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Marta Hanson participating in a workshop at Oxford University Dec 8-9
November 28, 2014

Chinese Medical Formulae for Treating Depletion Patterns: Historians Meet Practitioners “Interpreting pulses and depletion disorders in Zhang Shixian’s 張世賢 Illustrated Commentary on Pulse…

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Reviews of Dan Todes's biography of Ivan Pavlov
November 20, 2014

The first reviews of Dan Todes’s book Ivan Pavlov: A Russian life in Science (Oxford UP) are out. And they like…

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Eli Anders on the spaces of convalesence
November 9, 2014

Grad student Eli Anders writes about his dissertation research on convalescent homes and the practices of convalescence in nineteeth- and twentieth-century England in the Place/Space…

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Gianna Pomata talking on the medical case across cultures, Florence, December 11-13, 2014
November 9, 2014

Gianna Pomata will be presenting a paper “The Medical Case Across Cultures: Comparing the European Observatio and the Chinese Yi” at the conference…

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Randall Packard to speak on November 17, 2014 at Congressional briefing on Ebola in Africa
November 3, 2014

Congressional Briefing on Ebola and the African Health Crisis in Historical Perspective Monday, November 17, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Cannon…

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