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Congratulations to Sasha White! Black Beyond Data digital humanities project receives Mellon funding
July 16, 2021

New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000…

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Join us on May 12-16, 2021, for the 94th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine
May 11, 2021

Instead of meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, the 94th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine will be…

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Vintage-style bookplate featuring a person writing at a desk; surrounding text reads “Physician,” “Historian,” “Bibliophile,” and “W. Bruce Fye.”
The Alan Mason Chesney Archives receives a huge collection of personal papers that documents the career and contributions of W. Bruce Fye.
April 22, 2021

The Johns Hopkins Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives and the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University…

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Launch of the Opioid Industry Document Archive
March 26, 2021

The Institute of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is proud to announce the launch…

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Historians of Medicine, including our own Graham Mooney, Ayah Nuriddin, and Alexandre White, respond to JAMA’s Clinical Reviews podcast on BMJ’s Medical Humanities blog
March 8, 2021

“But this is what physicians need to know about their own history: Not only can physicians be racist, physicians were often…

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The Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine’s Epidemic/Endemic Speaker Series: Dr. Claire Decoteau & Dr. Lisa Cooper
February 26, 2021

The Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine is proud to present the fifth iteration of Epidemic//Endemic: Medical Humanities & Social…

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Painting of a historical surgical scene: doctors in aprons perform a C-section while one holds a newborn upside down; attendants and a clergyman stand nearby.
Dr. Elizabeth O’Brien at HPS Cambridge’s Generation to Reproduction Seminar
February 24, 2021

On March 2, 2021, Dr. Elizabeth O’Brien will present “As small as a grain of barley: the Bourbon state and the…

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Graham Mooney and Jeremy Greene interviewed in Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health
February 18, 2021

Graham Mooney and Jeremy Greene interviewed in “How History Helps Explain Pandemic Behavior” by Anna Louie Sussman, Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health.

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Graham Mooney publishes article in the Annals of Internal Medicine
February 9, 2021

Dr. Graham Mooney publishes an excellent editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine: “The Dangers of Ignoring History Lessons During a…

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Poster titled “Critical Conversations on Reproductive Health/Care: Past, Present, and Future.” Online conference February 3–7, 2021. Registration link: TINYURL.COM/REPROCONVO2021. Schedule by date: 2/3 Panel One: Histories and Historical Legacies of Racism on Maternal and Infant Lives in Brazil and the U.S. Keynote discussion of “Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth” by Dána-Ain Davis. Discussants: Cara Page, Karen Scott, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Darien Colson‑Fearon. 2/4 Panel Two: Historical Perspectives on Birth Control and Abortion in Bolivia, Brazil, China, and the U.S. Panel Three: Gender, Racial Capitalism, and Family‑Making in Barbados, South Africa, Mexico, India, and Canada. Documentary film screening: “The Belly of the Beast, Exposé of Reproductive Injustice,” directed by Erika Cohn. Discussants: Erika Cohn, Angela Tucker, Kelli Dillon, Cynthia Chandler, Carolyn Sufrin. 2/5 Panel Four: Race, Public Health, and Clinical Practice in South Africa, Central America, and South America. Panel Five: Historical Perspectives on Maternity and Reproductive Governance: From the Eugenic Era to the Neoliberal Era. Keynote discussion of “Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century” by Brianna Theobald. Discussants: endawis Spears, Elena Rebeca Gutiérrez, Jacki Thompson Rand, Sasha Turner. 2/6 Panel Six: Race, Pain, and Care: Issues in Public Health and Clinical Practice in the U.S. Artist talk and Q&A with Rebecca Mwase, performance artist and cultural organizer. Keynote discussion of “Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines,” edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mai’a Williams, and China Martens. Discussants: Victoria Law, Kellee Coleman, Cecilia Caballero, Jessica Marie Johnson, Mai’a Williams, and China Martens. 2/7 Panel Seven: Pregnancy and Midwifery in Early Modern and Nineteenth‑Century Medicine. Keynote discussion of “Taking Children: A History of American Terror” by Laura Briggs. Discussants: Lina Rosa Berrío Palomo, Nina Lakhani, Alys Weinbaum, Rachel Nolan, Elizabeth O’Brien. Panel Eight: Historical Perspectives on Enslavement, Resistance, and Reproductive Health/Care in Brazil and the U.S. Footer lists sponsors from Johns Hopkins University and affiliated centers and departments.
Join us on February 3-7, 2021, for “Critical Conversations on Reproductive Health/Care: Past, Present, and Future”
January 19, 2021

Scholars from across disciplines at the Johns Hopkins University and School of Medicine are organizing a conference entitled “Critical Conversations on…

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