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Alex Parry, PhD candidate, wins Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize 2022

November 18, 2022

At the 2022 Society for the History of Technology conference, Alex Parry was awarded the Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson…

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PhD Student Jessica Hester releases her first book: Sewer!

November 1, 2022

We are so thrilled to celebrate the launch of PhD student Jessica Hester’s first book, Sewer, which comes out this Thursday,…

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Jeremy Greene in The Lancet today! “How Medicine becomes trash”

October 14, 2022

Why are so many medical devices made to be thrown away? First piece on a new project out today in The…

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OIDA Project is “Documenting Pharma’s Role in the Opioid Crisis”

October 4, 2022

Check out the featured article in today’s Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine, discussing how the Opioid Industry Data Archive (OIDA) reveals…

Screenshot of an Annals of Internal Medicine article titled “The Fall of the Nation’s First Gender‑Affirming Surgery Clinic” by Walker J. Magrath. Subheading notes Johns Hopkins Hospital opened the first U.S. GAS clinic in 1966, closed it in 1979 citing evidence deemed ineffective, which was contested; the hospital took nearly 40 years to resume GAS. Links and PDF/full text icons appear below the title.

Shout out to HoM Scholarly Concentrator, Walker Magrath!

October 4, 2022

Shout out to Walker Magrath, medical student and scholarly concentrator in History of Medicine, for their article on “The Fall of…

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Congratulations to Dr. Mary Fissell, the inaugural J. Mario Molina Endowed Professor!

September 15, 2022

Please join us in celebrating the inaugural recipient of the J. Mario Molina Endowed Professorship in the History of Medicine, Dr….

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Introducing Dr. Anna Weerasinghe!

September 9, 2022

HUGE congratulations to Dr. Anna Weerasinghe for defending her dissertation on September 8, 2022, “Stuck Knowledge: Medicine and Immobility in Goa,…

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Dr. Jeremy Greene featured in The Washington Post

August 17, 2022

8/17/22 – Wednesday’s Washington Post features a perspective by our own Dr. Jeremy Greene on the Inflation Reduction Act and the…

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Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) Project hits the NYT

July 6, 2022

This June 29th New York Times article highlights the importance of our Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) project: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/business/mckinsey-opioid-crisis-opana.html Behind the…

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Opioid Industry Documents Archive featured in The Washington Post

May 11, 2022

This week, The Washington Post features a fantastic article about the Opioid Industry Documents Archives (OIDA) project! Read the article: Inside…

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