Drawing on extensive archival research, historian Lisa Haushofer reveals in Wonder Foods that the story of modern food and nutrition was not about innocuous technological advances or superior scientific insights, but rather about the powerful logic of exploitation and economization that undergirded colonial and industrial food projects. In the process, these wonder foods shaped both modern food regimes and how we think about food. Join us for a book talk where Dr. Lisa Haushofer will be discussing her recent book, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition, in conversation with Anne Kveim Lie and others. This is the last event of academic year for us, and it is co-sponsored by the Department of History of Medicine, the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, and the Program in Medicine, Science, & Humanities. Title: Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition Who: Dr. Lisa Haushofer What: Book Talk When: Tuesday, May 16th at 4pm Where: Bird in Hand Café located at 11 East 33rd Street

Dr. Graham Mooney of Johns Hopkins University will present “How Public Health Makes “Behavior”: Alcohol Programs in Post World War II Baltimore,” as part of our Spring 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Graham Mooney
When: May 2nd, 2023 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: How Public Health Makes “Behavior”: Alcohol Programs in Post World War II Baltimore

You are invited to the 48^th Hideyo Noguchi Lecture in the History of Medicine on Monday, May 1^st at 4pm featuring Dr. Stephen T. Casper presenting Punch Drunk Slugnuts: A Cultural History of Violence, Stigma, Sport, and Concussion. The event will occur in person in the West Reading Room on the 2^nd floor of the Welch Library Building located at 1900 East Monument Street with reception to follow. There will be a webinar livestream available. Stephen T. Casper, PhD is Professor in the History of Medicine at Clarkson University and an expert on the history of neurology, neuroscience, and the human sciences. His current book project is called Punch Drunk and Dementia: A Cultural History of Concussion, c.1870-2020. The book is under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press, and it explores the cultural history of blunt force trauma to the head. He is also currently co-editing an anthology entitled Troubling Encounters in the History of the Human Sciences: Latin America and the United States Empire, 1870s-2000s, a volume now forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. He discloses that he is an expert witness in the history of medicine in concussion litigation pending in the United States and Britain. This lecture tells a cultural story about the way it became normal to hit our heads. From early Vaudeville acts to Bob Hope's sideshow routines before boxing matches at Madison Square Gardens; from everyday speech on the streets of Chicago or the letters of eminent authors like Hemingway, Steinbeck and Malcolm X; to aggressive sports and risky daredevil stunts; violence to the head and its lasting ramifications entered American culture in languages of slang, physical comedy, bravado, humor and stigma. This history of concussion and its diseases thus looks not at what scientists and doctors discovered about head injury and its effects alone across the twentieth century, but instead explores the way those doctors and scientists and their cultures navigated violence and the inevitable harms that followed from it. The legacies - medical, institutional, and cultural - remain visible today. Title: Punch Drunk Slugnuts: A Cultural History of Violence, Stigma, Sport, & Concussion What: Lecture with Reception to follow Who: Dr. Stephen Casper of Clarkson University When: Monday, May 1st at 4pm Where: West Reading Room, 2nd Floor Welch Library Building, 1900 East Monument Street, 21205 Zoom Webinar Link: https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/96110198581?pwd=dm8wNy9kVzBhdlN0YXZZZHZYNVlZUT09

Jessica Hester of Johns Hopkins University will present ““The Subject Is Rather Odiferous”: Navigating Womanhood and Walloped Senses in the Dissecting Room of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania,” as part of our Spring 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Jessica Hester
When: April 20th, 2023 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “The Subject Is Rather Odiferous”: Navigating Womanhood and Walloped Senses in the Dissecting Room of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

Leigh Alon of Johns Hopkins University will present ““A Jew Can Only Look to Another Jew For Help”: Tay Sachs Screening and Managing Jewish Peoplehood and Involvement in the 1970s Civil Rights Movement,” as part of our Spring 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Leigh Alon
When: April 6th, 2023 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “A Jew Can Only Look to Another Jew For Help”: Tay Sachs Screening and Managing Jewish Peoplehood and Involvement in the 1970s Civil Rights Movement

For more information and to register, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/roevwadeat50/

Dr. Zubin Mistry of University of Edinburgh will present “The Problem of Monastic Gynecology: Reproduction, Religion and Medicine in Western Europe Before 1100,” as part of our Spring 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Zubin Mistry
When: March 16th, 2023 at 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “The Problem of Monastic Gynecology: Reproduction, Religion and Medicine in Western Europe Before 1100”

Dr. Rana Hogarth of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will present “The Science of Skin Color: Miscegenation and the Eugenic Gaze in the Early Twentieth Century,” as part of our Spring 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Rana Hogarth
When: March 9th, 2023
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “The Science of Skin Color: Miscegenation and the Eugenic Gaze in the Early Twentieth Century”

Dr. Eram Alam of Harvard University will present “The Logistical Body: Reflections on Medicine and Movement,” as part of our Spring 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Eram Alam
When: January 26th, 2023
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “The Logistical Body: Reflections on Medicine and Movement”

Dr. Courtney E. Thompson of Mississippi State University will present “A Calculus of Compassion: Emotion, Medicine, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century America,” as part of our Spring 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Courtney E. Thompson
When: February 21st, 2023
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “A Calculus of Compassion: Emotion, Medicine, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century America”

You are invited to the book launch for our own Dr. Alexandre White’s new publication “Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease,” as part of our Spring 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Alexandre White
When: February 7, 4pm
Where: Bird in Hand Café located at 11 East 33rd Street
Title: “Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease”

 

Dr. Stuart "Bill" Leslie of the Johns Hopkins University will present “New Universities for a New Nation: American Architects Redesign Higher Education for a Modern Pakistan,” as part of our Spring 2023 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Stuart W. Leslie
When: January 26th, 2023
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “New Universities for a New Nation: American Architects Redesign Higher Education for a Modern Pakistan”

Dr. Dominique Tobbell of the University of Virginia will present “"Moms and Tots": Nursing and the Politics of Community Health in 1960s' Detroit,” as part of our Fall 2022 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Dominique Tobbell
When: November 10, 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “"Moms and Tots": Nursing and the Politics of Community Health in 1960s' Detroit”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Achieving Health Equity in a World of Data Conference

Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data

Department of History of Medicine -  Department of Medical Anthropology - Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine

October 21-22nd, 2022 (Friday-Saturday)

Details on how to join the conference in progress!

 

You are invited to the book launch for our own Dr. Jeremy Greene's new publication “The Doctor Who Wasn't There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth,” as part of our Fall 2022 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Jeremy Greene
When: October 20, 4pm
Where: Bird in Hand Café located at 11 East 33rd Street
Title: “The Doctor Who Wasn't There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth” RSVP: https://forms.gle/fyduwPpjMzsz7Chw7

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Beatrix Hoffman of the Northern Illinois University will present “Borders of Care: A History of Immigration, Migration, and the Right to Health Care,” as part of our Fall 2022 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Beatrix Hoffman
When: October 13, 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Borders of Care: A History of Immigration, Migration, and the Right to Health Care”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Oluwatoyin Oduntan of Towson University will present “Decolonizing Africa and the Origins of Modern Medicine,” as part of our Fall 2022 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Oluwatoyin Oduntan
When: September 29, 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person in Welch 303 and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Decolonizing Africa and the Origins of Modern Medicine”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

RSVP here J. Mario Molina Endowed Professorship in the History of Medicine: Dedication and Installation of Mary E. Fissell, Ph.D., M.A. (google.com)

RACIAL JUSTICE CONCERT SERIES Season Finale: Livestream Performance featuring John Tyler and band in support of Baltimore’s NomüNomü

On Wed., May 4th, 2022 at 7pm EST Baltimore-based singer/multi-instrumentalist/producer John Tyler and band will perform in support of Baltimore’s Nomu Nomu, an artist collaborative and resource center. 22-year old phenomenon John Tyler is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of the Love Groove Festival. Tyler has released four albums, produced dozens of artists in the DMV area, and appeared at the Rams Head, Firefly Festival, and Baltimore’s Artscape. This spring he embarked on a multi-city tour to promote his latest album, “Free Spirit” and on May 7^th Tyler will be featured in Mayor Scott’s inaugural arts festival Baltimore by Baltimore’s (“BxB”).

NoMüNoMü is an intersectional arts collaborative working to challenge the perpetual systems of oppression within and beyond the art world. The organization writes: “We work collaboratively with artists + grassroots organizations at the intersections of race, age, gender and orientation. We curate radical exhibitions; provide space and resources for local artists to create; and work with activist and cultural grassroots movements to organize through the use of screen printing, resource sharing, and art production.”

The performance will be streamed live via Youtube from Baltimore’s Creative Alliance.

Tickets for this FREE performance are available through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/328164357427

https://www.facebook.com/racialjusticeconcertseries/

The Racial Justice Concert Series (RJCS), a collaboration among Johns Hopkins students, faculty, and staff, harnesses the power of music to bring awareness to issues of racism in Baltimore, and to support Baltimore organizations that focus on racial justice work. The RJCS features performances by Baltimore musicians and provides a platform for racial justice organizations to educate audiences about their efforts. The RJCS is cooperatively produced and funded by the Johns Hopkins Program in Arts, Humanities, & Health, Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine, and Johns Hopkins International Arts + Mind Lab.

This Racial Justice Concert will open the Reckoning with Race and Racism in Academic Medicine conference, sponsored by Johns Hopkins Department of the History of Medicine, Center for Africana Studies, Program for Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship, and the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine. This conference includes historians, sociologists, medical educators, medical trainees, advocates and activists from around the United States to work towards a more inclusive version of historical reckoning. Over two days, we will examine the centrality of history as a tool and as a method to understand the intersections of structural racism and health past and present, aim to build anti-racist curricula and commit to engaging with structural racism as a key aspect of medical training and policy change.

Contact Info: Loren Ludwig, Program Coordinator

Program in Arts, Humanities, & Health

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Tel.: 413-687-1998

Email: Lludwig1@jh.edu

Dr. Richard Mizelle Jr of the University of Houston will present “Diabetes and the American Century,” as part of our Spring 2022 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Richard Mizelle Jr
When: April 14, 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Diabetes and the American Century”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Kylie Smith of Emory University will present “Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South,” as part of our Spring 2022 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Kylie Smith
When: March 31, 2021, 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Adria Imada of the University of California, Irvine will present “Survival Lessons from An Archive of Skin,” as part of our Spring 2022 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Adria Imada
When: March 10, 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Survival Lessons from An Archive of Skin”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Adedamola Adetiba of Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria will present “A Global History of Medical Knowledge Production Networks in Colonial Nigeria,” as part of our Spring 2022 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Adedamola Adetiba
When: February 24, 2022, 3pm
Where: Virtual via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “A Global History of Medical Knowledge Production Networks in Colonial Nigeria”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Sokhieng Au of University of Iowa will present “Dismembering medical history: material culture, medicine, and the historical record in colonial Africa and Asia,” as part of our Spring 2022 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Sokhieng Au
When: February 15, 2022, 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Dismembering medical history: material culture, medicine, and the historical record in colonial Africa and Asia”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Lan Li of Rice University will present “麻 Ma: A Biography of Numbness,” as part of our Spring 2022 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Lan Li
When: February 10, 2022, 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “麻 Ma: A Biography of Numbness”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Emily Baum of the University of California Irvine will present “Healing Channels: Acupuncture and Pain Relief in 1970s China and the United States,” as part of our Spring 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Emily Baum
When: February 1, 2021, 3pm
Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: “Healing Channels: Acupuncture and Pain Relief in 1970s China and the United States”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Marco Ramos of Yale University will present “Specters of Justice: Psychoanalysis and Terror in Argentina,” as part of our Fall 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Marco Ramos When: November 11, 2021, 3pm Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “Specters of Justice: Psychoanalysis and Terror in Argentina”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Adia Benton of Northwestern University will present as part of our Fall 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Adia Benton When: October 28, 2021, 3pm Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: TBA

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Adam Biggs of University of South Carolina at Lancaster will present “The Godfrey Nurse Affair: How Intersectional Tensions Shaped Black Professional Legitimacy during the Desegregation of Harlem Hospital, 1919-1935,” as part of our Fall 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Adam Biggs When: October 7, 2021, 3pm Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “The Godfrey Nurse Affair: How Intersectional Tensions Shaped Black Professional Legitimacy during the Desegregation of Harlem Hospital, 1919-1935”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Eli Nelson of Williams College will present “Transing the First Native American Doctor: Omaha Medicine, Gender, and the Allure of Red Progress),” as part of our Fall 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Eli Nelson When: September 30, 2021, 3pm Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “Transing the First Native American Doctor: Omaha Medicine, Gender, and the Allure of Red Progress”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Lan Li of Rice University will present “Without a Brain: Photographing Meridian Men, Among Other Anatomical Frustrations (1857-1931),” as part of our Fall 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology.

Who: Lan Li When: September 16, 2021, 3pm Where: Hybrid: In person TBA and via Zoom. For more information and to receive pre-circulated papers, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “Without a Brain: Photographing Meridian Men, Among Other Anatomical Frustrations (1857-1931)”

For the full schedule, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/current-colloquia-poster/ 

Dr. Jacob Steere-Williams of the College of Charleston will present “Putting Rats on the Map: Plague and Anti-Epidemic Labor in early 20th century South Africa,” as part of our Spring 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. Who: Jacob Steere-Williams When: Apr 15, 2021, 3pm Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “Putting Rats on the Map: Plague and Anti-Epidemic Labor in early 20th century South Africa”

Dr. Wangui Muigai of Brandeis University will present "Saving Babies, Saving the Race: The Black Politics of Infant Survival," as part of our Spring 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. Who: Wangui Muigai When: Apr 1, 2021, 3pm Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: "Saving Babies, Saving the Race: The Black Politics of Infant Survival."

Dr. Dániel Margócsy of Cambridge University will present “Worms: A Disease at Sea,” as part of our Spring 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. Who: Dániel Margócsy When: Feb 25, 2021, 3pm Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “Worms: A Disease at Sea.”

Duygu Yildirim of Stanford University will present “Precarious Substances: Medical Uncertainty between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” as part of our Spring 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. Who: Duygu Yildirim When: Feb 18, 2021, 3pm Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “Precarious Substances: Medical Uncertainty between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe.”

Robin Reich of Columbia University will present “Imagining the Eastern Mediterranean in medieval Europe: Uroscopy and the technology of the urine flask,” as part of our Spring 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. Who: Robin Reich When: Feb 11, 2021, 3pm Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “Imagining the Eastern Mediterranean in medieval Europe: Uroscopy and the technology of the urine flask.”

The conference will be held via Zoom Webinar and will be broadcast via YouTube Live. For more information, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/. Conference Schedule for Sunday, February 7: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. *Panel Seven: Pregnancy and Midwifery in Early Modern and Nineteenth-Century Medicine Chair: Mary Fissell, Professor of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Scottie Hale Buehler, “Producing Midwives in Eighteenth-century France.” Paola Uparela, “Regímenes gineco-escópicos de la Modernidad: erotismo y putrefacción en La Parturienta” (Gyneco-Scopic Regimes of Modernity: Erotism and Putrefaction in the Representation of Pregnant Woman). Paige Donaghy, “Toward a theory of non-re-production: examples from the early modern ‘false conception’ and contemporary ‘molar pregnancy.’” Saurav Kumar Rai, “Begetting a Male Child: Women Reproductive Health in Late Colonial Ayurvedic Discourse.” 1:00-2:30 p.m. *Reverse Keynote Discussion of Taking Children: A History of American Terror (Oakland, CA: UC Press, 2020) by Laura Briggs, Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at The University of Massachusetts Amherst Lorgia García Peña, Associate Professor of History and Literature at Harvard University Lina Rosa Berrío Palomo, Profesora-investigadora de Antropología Social en CIESAS Pacifico Sur Nina Lakhani, Journalist for The Guardian and author Rachel Nolan, Journalist and Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Boston Elizabeth O’Brien, Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University 3:00-4:30 p.m. Panel Eight: Global Perspectives on Race, Class, Reproductive Governance, and Obstetric Violence Chair: Christy Thornton Young su Park, “Implanon: Temporalities and Ethics of Family Planning for Ethiopian Female Migrant Workers.” Samantha Serrano, and Denise Mattin, “Childbirth and Postpartum Care of Bolivian Immigrant Women in São Paulo, Brazil-Sweatshops, Obstetric Violence and Cariño." Sara Matthiesen, “Toward a History of State Neglect: Women of Color and Reproduction in the U.S.” Morgen Chalmiers, ““Too Many Babies?” Reproductive Governance and the Refugee Subject.” *El asterisco significa que habrá interpretación simultanea al español *Astrisk denotes simultaneous translation of panel to Spanish For additional information on translations, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/

The conference will be held via Zoom Webinar and will be broadcast via YouTube Live. For more information, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/. Conference Schedule for Saturday, February 6: 11:00 a.m-12:30 p.m. Panel Six: Race, Pain, and Care: Issues in Public Health and Clinical Practice in the U.S. Chair: Jacob Moses Nicholas Rubashkin, “Evidence-Based Discrimination: the MFMU VBAC success calculator and the implementation of a new racial algorithm in American obstetrics.” Lotte Elton, “Knowledge, Community, and Care: Biocitizenship in Gestational Diabetes.” Dionne Bensonsmith and Sophie Paek, “A Different Kind of Labor: Black women, Resilience, and Reproductive Justice in Uterine Fibroid Treatment and Care.” Nicole Rodi, “Painfully Missing the Mark on Endometriosis: A Historical View of the Disorder, its Misdiagnosis, and Improving.” Rachel Louise Moran, ““A New-Woman Post-Feminist Idea”: Consumer Activism and Postpartum Depression in the 1980s.” 1:00-2:30 p.m. Artist Talk and Q&A with Rebecca Mwase, performance artist and cultural organizer 3:00-4:30 p.m. *Reverse Keynote Discussion of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2016) edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mai'a Williams, and China Martens Victoria Law, journalist, author, and mother Kellee Coleman, Mamas of Color Rising Tanay Lynn Harris, co-founder of the Bloom Collective Baltimore Cecilia Caballero, Poet, educator, and scholar Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University With Revolutionary Mothering editors, Mai'a Williams and China Martens *El asterisco significa que habrá interpretación simultanea al español *Astrisk denotes simultaneous translation of panel to Spanish For additional information on translations, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/

The conference will be held via Zoom Webinar and will be broadcast via YouTube Live. For more information, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/. Conference Schedule for Friday, February 5: 1:00–2:30 p.m. *Panel Four: Race, Public Health, and Clinical Practice in South Africa, Central America, and South America Chair: Halle-Mackenzie Ashby Luisa Madrigal, “Reproduciendo el desarrollo en Guatemala.” Rilva Lopes de Sousa Muñoz, “Historia del parto en establecimientos de salud del estado de Paraíba, Brasil.” Michelle San Pedro, “State Control Over Reproduction: The Implications of Phasing Out Traditional Midwives in Nicaragua.” Vincenza Mazzeo, “The Politics of Pap Smears: The Right to Life and Women’s Anti-Apartheid Organizing in South Africa, 1984-1994.” Mariana Ramos Pitta Lima, “Reproductive technologies in practice and post abortion treatment in a Brazilian public maternity hospital.” 3:00-4:30 p.m. Panel Five: Historical Perspectives on Maternity and Reproductive Governance: From the Eugenic Era to the Neoliberal Era Chair: Vincenza Mazzeo Urvi Desai, “Birth Control and the Motherhood Market in Bombay (1930-60s).” Sanjam Ahluwalia, “Mapping Histories of Reproductive Health and Governance across India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: 1947- 2000.” Aprajita Sarcar, “Women as Sites: The Dichotomies of Family Planning on the ‘Female’ Body.” Caitlin Fendley, “A “Complex Personal Problem”: Media, Nursing, and Female Sterilization in the 1960s.” Emma Capulli, “ART and surrogacy: analysis of reproductive autonomy in the complex relationship between clinical labor and new parenting.” 5:00-6:30 p.m. Reverse Keynote Discussion of Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2019) by Brianna Theobald, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rochester endawis Spears, Director of Programming & Outreach, Akomawt Educational Initiative Lina-Maria Murillo, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies and History, University of Iowa Jacki Thompson Rand, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa Sasha Turner, Associate Professor of History and the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University *El asterisco significa que habrá interpretación simultanea al español *Astrisk denotes simultaneous translation of panel to Spanish For additional information on translations, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/

The conference will be held via Zoom Webinar and will be broadcast via YouTube Live. For more information, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/. Conference Schedule for Thursday, February 4: 12:30-1:45 p.m. Abortion Care During COVID-19: Front-Line Perspectives and the Limits of “Choice” Talks and Q&A with Diane Horvath, MD, and Carolyn Sufrin, PhD, MD 2:00-3:30 p.m. Panel Two: Historical Perspectives on Birth Control and Abortion in Bolivia, Brazil, China, and the U.S. Chair: Casey Lurtz Rhian Lewis, “Essential procedures: Abortion support during COVID-19 in Texas.” Natalie Kimball, “Reproductive Decision Making in Post-Colonial Bolivia.” Sarah Mellors, “The Road to the One Child Policy: Grassroots Birth Control and Abortion Practices in China, 1966-1979.” Brooke Lansing, “With the Strictest Confidence: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth-Century New York City.” 4:00-5:30 p.m. Panel Three: Gender, Racial Capitalism, and Family-Making in Barbados, South Africa, Mexico, India, and Canada Chair: Vincenza Mazzeo Halle-Mackenzie Ashby, “Conscripts of the State: Urban Women in Post-Emancipation Bridgetown Barbados 1864–1890.” Tessa Moll, “Making Laws, Managing Potentials: A Modern History of ART Family-Crafting in South Africa.” April Hovav, “Creating a Global Surrogacy Hub: The Case of Tabasco, Mexico.” Dharashree Das, “Privation, Precaution, and Deliberation: Narratives of Older Women in Delhi, India.” 6:00-8:15 p.m. Documentary Film Screening: Belly of the Beast Panel Discussion and Q&A with: Film Director Erika Cohn Film Producer Angela Tucker Film Participant Kelli Dillon Film Participant Cynthia Chandler Carolyn Sufrin, Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine *El asterisco significa que habrá interpretación simultanea al español *Astrisk denotes simultaneous translation of panel to Spanish For additional information on translations, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/

The conference will be held via Zoom Webinar and will be broadcast via YouTube Live. For more information, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/. Conference Schedule for Wednesday, February 3: 1:30-3:00 p.m. Panel One: Histories and Historical Legacies of Racism on Maternal and Infant Lives in Brazil and the U.S. Chair: Jennifer Stager Emily J. Clark, “Perilous Intimacies: Enslaved Women, White Midwives, and Childbirth in Colonial New England.” Cassia Roth, “Disembodied Reproduction: Enslaved Wet Nurses, Stratified Reproduction, and Commercial Advertisements in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro.” Nic John Ramos, “Managing Working Motherhood: The Reproductive Politics of Black and Brown Labor in 1970s Los Angeles.” Ayodele Foster-McCray, “Racializing Midwifery: A Discussion of Blackness, Gender, and “Alternative” Birth Care in Atlanta, Georgia.” Monica J. Casper: ““BABYLOST: An Infant Mortality Alphabet Book.” 3:00-3:30 p.m. *Opening Remarks Jeremy Greene, Tanjala Purnell, Sasha Turner, Carolyn Sufrin, Jessica Marie Johnson, Elizabeth O’Brien, Darien Colson-Fearon 3:30-5:00 p.m.  *Reverse Keynote Discussion of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (New York: NYU Press, 2019) by Dána-Ain Davis, Professor of Urban Studies & Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Cara Page, Cultural/Memory Worker, Curator & Organizer Karen Scott, Associate Professor and OBGYN Hospitalist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Darien Colson-Fearon, MD Candidate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine *El asterisco significa que habrá interpretación simultanea al español *Astrisk denotes simultaneous translation of panel to Spanish For additional information on translations, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/reproconvo2021/

Dr. Daniel Trambaiolo of the University of Hong Kong will present “Bodies between worlds: Word and image in early modern Japanese anatomy,” as part of our Spring 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. Who: Daniel Trambaiolo When: Feb 2, 2021, 6pm Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “Bodies between worlds: Word and image in early modern Japanese anatomy.”

Elise Mitchell of New York University will present “Smallpox and Enslavement: Morbidity, Medical Intervention, and Black Life in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” as part of our Spring 2021 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. Who: Elise Mitchell When: Jan 28, 2021, 3pm Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “Smallpox and Enslavement: Morbidity, Medical Intervention, and Black Life in the Early Modern Atlantic World.”

Dr. Yi-Li Wu of the University of Michigan will present '“Sending men to face blades and arrows”: Morality, medicine, and military wounds in the history of Chinese healing, 8th - 17th centuries' as part of our Fall 2020 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. Who: Yi-Li Wu When: 11/12/2020, 3pm Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: “Sending men to face blades and arrows”: Morality, medicine, and military wounds in the history of Chinese healing, 8th - 17th centuries

Dr. Gabriela Soto Laveaga of Harvard University will present "Beyond Science in the Fields: Hybrid Seeds, Race, and Land in the Making of the Green Revolution" as part of our Fall 2020 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. Who: Gabriela Soto Laveaga When: 10/29/2020, 3pm Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: Beyond Science in the Fields: Hybrid Seeds, Race, and Land in the Making of the Green Revolution

Dr. Graham Mooney of Johns Hopkins University will present "Baltimore's Excremental Politics" as part of our Fall 2020 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. Who: Graham Mooney When: 10/15/2020, 3pm Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu. Title: Baltimore's Excremental Politics

Dr. Ahmed Ragab of Harvard University will present "‘It took away a whole generation’: Epidemics, memory and clinical culture in the medieval Islamic world" as part of our Fall 2020 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. 

Who: Ahmed Ragab
When: 9/24/2020, 3pm
Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: ‘It took away a whole generation’: Epidemics, memory and clinical culture in the medieval Islamic world

Dr. Marcos Cueto and Dr. Gabriel Lopes of the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz will present "Backlash in the Global South: Brazil, AIDS and Bolsonaro’s Chloroquine, 2007-2020" as part of our Fall 2020 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. 

Who: Marcos Cueto and Gabriel Lopes
When: 9/10/2020, 3pm
Where: via Zoom. For more information, contact Marian Robbins at myrobbins@jhmi.edu.
Title: Backlash in the Global South: Brazil, AIDS and Bolsonaro’s Chloroquine, 2007-2020

Dr. Yi-Li Wu of the University of Michigan will present "'Sending Men to Face Blades and Arrows': Morality, Medicine, and Military Wounds in the History of Chinese Healing, 8th - 17th Centuries" on Thursday, April 30th as part of the Program for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology's Spring 2020 Colloquia Series.

Title: "Sending Men to Face Blades and Arrows": Morality, Medicine, and Military Wounds in the History of Chinese Healing, 8th - 17th Centuries
Who: Yi-Li Wu
When: April 30, 2020 at 3pm ​
​Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building

For access to pre-circulated colloquia papers, contact myrobbins@jhmi.edu.

ALL EVENTS ARE CANCLENED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Dr. Gabriela Soto Laveaga of Harvard University will present "Beyond Science in the Fields: Hybrid Seeds, Race, and Land in the Making of the Green Revolution" on Thursday, April 16th as part of the Program for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology's Spring 2020 Colloquia Series.

Title: Beyond Science in the Fields: Hybrid Seeds, Race, and Land in the Making of the Green Revolution
Who: Gabriela Soto Laveaga 
When: April 16, 2020 at 3pm
​Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building

For access to pre-circulated colloquia papers, contact myrobbins@jhmi.edu.

RESCHEDULED ON ZOOM

Michael Healey of Johns Hopkins University will present "Maladjustment and the Milieu: Thomas Rennie, Parergasia, and the Meyerian Origins of Social Psychiatry" on Thursday, April 9th as part of the Program for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology's Spring 2020 Colloquia Series.

Title: Maladjustment and the Milieu: Thomas Rennie, Parergasia, and the Meyerian Origins of Social Psychiatry
Who: Michael Healey
When: April 9, 2020 at 3pm
​Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building

For access to pre-circulated colloquia papers and zoom link, contact myrobbins@jhmi.edu.

ALL EVENTS ARE CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Dr. Lauren Kassell of the University of Cambridge will present the 27th Hideyo Noguchi Lecture with her talk entitled "Medical Encounters in Early Modern England: Magic, Astrology, Science" on March 27th at 4:30pm in the West Reading Room of the Welch Library Building. 

 

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Title: Medical Encounters in Early Modern England: Magic, Astrology, Science
Who: Dr. Lauren Kassell of the University of Cambridge
What: 27th Hideyo Noguchi Lecture
When: March 27th, 2020 at 4:30pm
Where: West Reading Room of the Welch Library Building, 1900 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205

Sarah Zanolini of Johns Hopkins University will present "Assimilating "Foreign Yams" into Early Modern Chinese Diets" on Thursday, March 5th as part of the Program for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology's Spring 2020 Colloquia Series. 

Title: Assimilating "Foreign Yams" into Early Modern Chinese Diets
Who: Sarah Zanolini
When: March 5, 2020 at 3pm
Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building

For access to pre-circulated colloquia papers, contact myrobbins@jhmi.edu.

Please rsvp by email to myrobbins@jhmi.edu. 

 

Title: Rethinking Greek Heritage: Translation, Practice, and the Making of a Medical Archive
Who: Ahmed Ragab, MD, PhD of Harvard University
What: 2020 Joan and Menelaos Aliapoulios Lecture in Hellenic Medicine
When: February 21, 2020 at 4:30pm
Where: West Reading Room, Welch Library Building, 1900 East Monument Street, 21205

Dr. Laura Hirshbein of the University of Michigan will present "Assessing the Conduct of Juveniles: Behavior Disorder Categories, 1900-2013" on Thursday, February 20th as part of the Program for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology's Spring 2020 Colloquia Series. 

Title: Assessing the Conduct of Juveniles: Behavior Disorder Categories, 1900-2013
Who: Laura Hirshbein
When: February 20, 2020 at 3pm
Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building

For access to pre-circulated colloquia papers, contact myrobbins@jhmi.edu. 

Dr. Claire Cage of the University of South Alabama will present "Detecting Deception: Malingering and Legal Medicine in Modern France" on Thursday, February 6th as part of the Program for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology's Spring 2020 Colloquia Series. 

Title: Detecting Deception: Malingering and Legal Medicine in Modern France
Who: Claire Cage
When: February 6, 2020 at 3pm
Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building

For access to pre-circulated colloquia papers, contact myrobbins@jhmi.edu. 

Andrew Hogan of the Creighton University will present "Values Before Evidence? Psychology and Developmental Disabilities in the Late 20th Century"" as part of the Fall 2019 Colloquia Series for the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. 

Title: Values Before Evidence? Psychology and Developmental Disabilities in the Late 20th Century"
Who: Andrew Hogan
When: Thursday, 12/5/19, 3pm
Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building, 1900 E Monument Street, 21205

Dr. David Carey Jr of Loyola University of Maryland will present "Entangled Epidemics: Race, Politics, and Public Health in Guatemala and Ecuador, 1900-1950" at a brownbag lunch talk on November 25th from 12:30 to 1:30pm in the 3rd floor Seminar Room of the Welch Library Building.

Title: Entangled Epidemics: Race, Politics, and Public Health in Guatemala and Ecuador, 1900-1950
Who: Dr. David Carey Jr of Loyola University of Maryland
When: November 25th from 12:30 to 1:30pm
Where: 3rd floor Seminar Room of the Welch Library Building, 1900 East Monument Street, Batlimore, MD 21205

Aimee Medeiros of the University of California San Francisco will present "The Health of the Child is the Power of the Nation”: Patriotic Pediatrics and the Role of the Children’s Hospital" as part of the Fall 2019 Colloquia Series for the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. 

Title: The Health of the Child is the Power of the Nation”: Patriotic Pediatrics and the Role of the Children’s Hospital
Who: Aimee Medeiros
When: Thursday, 11/14/19, 3pm
Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building, 1900 E Monument Street, 21205

​Dr. Javier Galeano of Brown University will present "Deviant Bodies, Deviant Minds: The Medicalization of Homosexuality in Argentina and Spain (1942-1982)" at a brownbag lunch talk on November 11th from 12:30 to 1:30pm in the 3rd floor Seminar Room of the Welch Library Building.

Title: Deviant Bodies, Deviant Minds: The Medicalization of Homosexuality in Argentina and Spain (1942-1982)
Who: Dr. Javier Galeano of Brown University
When: November 11th from 12:30 to 1:30pm
Where: 3rd floor Seminar Room of the Welch Library Building, 1900 East Monument Street, Batlimore, MD 21205

Nicole Nelson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will present "Humans as a model for animals: Patterning preclinical reproducibility reform after clinical research" as part of the Fall 2019 Colloquia Series for the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. 

Title: Humans as a model for animals: Patterning preclinical reproducibility reform after clinical research
Who: Nicole Nelson
When: Thursday, 10/31/19, 3pm
Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building, 1900 E Monument Street, 21205

​Dr. Christoph Gradmann of the University of Oslo will present "Before there was DOTS: Controlling Tuberculosis in 1970s Tanzania" at a brownbag lunch talk on October 28th from 12:30 to 1:30pm in the 3rd floor Seminar Room of the Welch Library Building.

Title: Before there was DOTS: Controlling Tuberculosis in 1970 Tanzania
Who: Dr. Christoph Gradmann of the University of Oslo
When: October 28th from 12:30 to 1:30pm
Where: 3rd floor Seminar Room of the Welch Library Building, 1900 East Monument Street, Batlimore, MD 21205

Laura Beers of American University will present "Both Feminist and Practical Politics: The Incorporation of Infertility Treatment into Family Planning in Postwar Britain" as part of the Fall 2019 Colloquia Series for the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. 

Title: Both Feminist and Practical Politics: The Incorporation of Infertility Treatment into Family Planning in Postwar Britain
Who: Laura Beers
When: Thursday, 10/10/19, 3pm
Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building, 1900 E Monument Street, 21205

Paul U. Unschuld of Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin will present "The Ancient Chinese Medical Classics: Neglected Sources, Surprising Modernity, Enigmatic Origin" in a talk sponsored by the Department of the History of Medicine and the Department of East-Asian Studies. The talk will be from 4 to 5:30pm with a reception sponsored by the the Program in East Asian Studies to follow.

Title: The Ancient Chinese Medical Classics: Neglected Sources, Surprising Modernity, Enigmatic Origin
Who: Paul U. Unschuld
When: Tuesday, 10/01/19, 4pm
Where: Mergenthaler 266, Homewood Campus

Dr. Tom Quick of the University of Manchester will present "Once Bitten: Madness, Mosquito Breeding, and Early Ecological Malariology" at a brownbag lunch talk on September 30th from 12:30 to 1:30pm in the 3rd floor Seminar Room of the Welch Library Building.

Title: Once Bitten: Madness, Mosquito Breeding, and Early Ecological Malariology
Who: Dr. Tom Quick of the University of Mahcerster
When: September 30th from 12:30 to 1:30pm
Where: 3rd floor Seminar Room of the Welch Library Building, 1900 East Monument Street, Batlimore, MD 21205

Maya Koretzky of Johns Hopkins University will present "Some Beauty and Meaning from these Ashes": AIDS, Intimacy, and Everyday Experience in 20th C. America" as part of the Fall 2019 Colloquia Series for the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. 

Title: "Some Beauty and Meaning from these Ashes": AIDS, Intimacy, and Everyday Experience in 20th C. America
Who: Maya Kortezky
When: Thursday, 9/26/19, 3pm
Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building, 1900 E Monument Street, 21205

RSVP deadline extended to Monday, March 4th!

Title: Containment: Exploring the History, Politics, and Ethics of Infectious Disease Response in a Post-Genomic World

What: Film Screening of In the Shadow of Ebola & Panel, reception to follow
Who: Featuring Kaci Hickox, formerly quarantined Ebola nurse & JHU Nursing graduate, and Gregg Mitman, Director of In the Shadow of Ebola
When: Monday, March 11th from 3:30 pm to 5:15 pm
Where: Wood Basic Science Building Auditorium 

For more information and to register, visit bioethics.jhu.edu/containment-symposium.

 

​Dr. Shigehisa Kuriyama of Harvard University will present "Toward a Theory of Happy Curioisty" on Monday, November 26th at 4pm in Gilman 308 as part of the History department's Fall 2018 Seminar Series. The Department of the History of Medicine is excited to co-sponsor this event. 

Title: "Toward a Theory of Happy Curiosity"
Who: Dr. Shigehisa Kuriyama 
What:History Department Seminar 
When: Mon, Nov 26, 2018 from 4-5:30pm
Where: Gilman 308, Homewood Campus

Dr. Timothy Walker of University of Massachsetts Dartmouth will present "Portuguese Parallels: Comparing the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (Amsterdam, 1648) to Analogous Efforts toward Codifying Indigenous Brazilian Medicinal Knowledge in Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries" as part of the Program for the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology's Fall 2018 Colloquia Series. 

Title: Portuguese Parallels: Comparing the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (Amsterdam, 1648) to Analogous Efforts toward Codifying Indigenous Brazilian Medicinal Knowledge in Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries
Who: Dr. Timothy Walker
When: Thursday, 11/15, 3pm
Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building, 1900 E Monument St, 21205

 

​In collaboration with the Arrighi Center for Global Studies and the Department of Sociology, we invite you to attend a talk featuring Dr. Alondra Nelson, author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination and The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations and Reconciliation After the Genome. Dr. ​Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and professor of sociology at Columbia University with a focus on science, technology, and social inequality. 

Who: Dr. Alondra Nelson
When: October 31st, 12-1:30pm
Where: Mergenthaler 526, Homewood Campus

Dr. Sara Ritchey of the Univeristy of Tennessee will present their paper entitled "Caring by the Hours: the Psalter as a Source of Gendered Healthcare" as part of the Program for the History of Science, Medicine, & Tecnhnology's Fall 2018 Colloquia Series. Dr. Ritchey's talk will occur on Thrusday, October 25th at 3pm in the 3rd Floor Seminar Room of the Welch Library Building on the East Baltimore campus. 

Title: Caring by the Hours: the Psalter as a Source of Gendered Healthcare
Who: Dr. Sara Ritchey, University of Tennessee
When: October 25, 2018 at 3pm
​Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Welch Library Building at 1900 E. Monument Street, 21205

Dr. Hans Pols of the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, Australia, will present their upcoming book "Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies" on Tuesday, October 23rd at 12pm in the Welch Library Building, 3rd Floor Seminar Room. 

For more information about Dr. Pols' upcoming book, find the abstract as well as author's blogs below.

Through their studies, their medical practice, and their participation in the Association of Indonesian Physicians, Indonesian physicians in the Dutch East Indies developed and articulated a strong professional identity. The promises of modern medicine were important elements of this professional identity and motivated these physicians to develop critical perspectives on colonial society. They participated in social and cultural movements as well as political activities. In this paper, I discuss the political views and nationalist activities of several generations of Indonesian physicians. At various times, Indonesian physicians criticised traditional culture, advocated public health measures and increases in funding for health, criticised income disparities between Indonesian and European physicians, defended traditional culture and embraced it as a model for an alternate modernity for Indonesia. During the process of decolonisation, they transformed colonial medicine into a modern approach to maintain health, inspired by examples and connections all over the world.

http://www.cambridgeblog.org/author-profile/hans-pols/

http://www.newmandala.org/breaking-colonial-hypnosis-radical-physicians-medical-nationalism-dutch-east-indies/

Title: Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies
Who: Dr. Hans Pols
When: Tuesday, October 23rd at 12pm
Where: Welch Library Building, 3rd Floor Seminar Room

 

Join us for an exhibition in our gallery on the 2nd Floor of the Welch Library Building. See below for details. 

Featuring many of our professors, postdocs, and students, the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology & co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Media Studies and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will host a workshop entitled The Work of Diagnosis: Medical Concepts in Social Life. 

Title: The Work of Diagnosis: A Workshop on Medical Concepts in Social Life 
Date: October 19, 8:30am to 4pm
Place: Welch Library Building, Room 303, JHU East Baltimore Campus

Any questions or special requests, please direct them to afilipp6@jhmi.edu.

Our very own professors Dr. Marta Hanson (left) and Dr. Gianna Pomata (right) of the History of Medicine department at Johns Hopkins University will present on Thrusday, October 11th at 3pm as part of the 2018 Fall Colloquia Series sponsored by the Program for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. Their paper is entitled "Travels of a Chinese Pulse Treatise: the Latin and French Translations of the Tuzhu maijue bianzhen 圖註脈訣辨真 (1650s-1730s)" and their talk will take place in the Welch Library Building Room 303. 

 

Title: Travels of a Chinese Pulse Treatise: the Latin and French Translations of the Tuzhu maijue bianzhen 圖註脈訣辨真 (1650s-1730s)
Who: Professors Marta Hanson & Gianna Pomata
When: Thursday, October 11, 2018
Where: 3rd Floor Seminar Room (Room 303), Welch Library Building: 1900 E. Monument St, 21205

For information on our 2018 Fall Colloquia Series, please see our poster here. If you would like to join our mailing list to recieve colloquia papers and learn about our events, please our Program Coordinator at email myrobbins@jhmi.edu. 

Presented in collaboration with the Office of Public Health Practice & Training and featuring a panel moderated by our own Professer Jeremy Greene. Please see below for details. 

 

A webcast on October 11, 2018 from 4-5:30 p.m.

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2018 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Sommer Hall
Wolfe St Building

 

Introduction:

• Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD
  Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement
  Professor of the Practice
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Panel: A Landmark Protest, 30 Years Later

Moderator:​

• Chris Beyrer MD, MPH
  Desmond M. Tutu Professor
  Director, Center for Public Health and Human Rights
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Panelists:

• Peter Staley
  AIDS Activist
   
• Ann Northrop
  Veteran journalist and Activist
  Longtime member of ACT UP (New York)
  Co-host of news program Gay USA

Panel: Legacy of “Seize Control of FDA” for Public Health

Moderator:

• Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD
  Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine
  Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine
  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Panelists:

• Susan S. Ellenberg, Ph.D.
  Professor of Biostatistics
  Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy (secondary)
  Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
  Perelman School of Medicine
  University of Pennsylvania

• Gregg Gonsalves, PhD
  Assistant Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
  Yale School of Public Health

• Mark Harrington
  Executive Director
  Treatment Action Group

• David Kessler, MD, JD
  Former Commissioner
  US Food and Drug Administration

For more information, please contact the Office of Public Health Practice and Training at publichealthpractice@jhu.edu or at (443) 287-8541.

Presented in collaboration with the Berman Institute of Bioethics, our own Professor Graham Mooney will speak on the panel following Laura Spinney's talk. For more details, please see below. 

You are cordially invited to the 125th Anniversary of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine event presented in collaboration with the History of Medicine Department on Tuesday, October 2nd at 2pm. “Living History: 125 Years of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine” will feature graduates of our program, courses, and affililates with the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine in a series of talks and panels, detailed below, clikc the images to see a pdf.

We hope to see you there!

What: Living History: 125 Years of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
When: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2pm Where:
West Reading Room, Welch Medical Library, 1900 East Monument Street, 21205

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Dr. Warwick Anderson of the University of Sydney will present "From Racial Types to Aboriginal Clines: The Illustrative Career of Joseph B. Birdsell" as part of our Fall 2018 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology. 

Who: Warwick Anderson
When: 9/27/18, 3pm
Where: Welch Library Building, 3rd Floor Seminar Room (1900 E. Monument Street, 21205)
Title: From Racial Types to Aboriginal Clines: The Illustrative Career of Joseph B. Birdsell

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens of Queens College, CUNY will present "Exploring Hapticity, Slavery and the Emergence of American Gynecology" as part of our 2018 Fall Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology. Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens' visit is co-sponsored with the Sex and Slavery Lab, with whom they will be particiapting in more events on the Homewood Campus.

Who: Deirdre Cooper Owens
When: 9/20/18, 3pm
Where: Welch Library Building, 3rd Floor Seminar Room (1900 E. Monument Street, 21205)
Title: Exploring Hapticity, Slavery and the Emergence of American Gynecology

For more information and to see our Fall 2018 Colloquia Poster, visit hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/content/spring-2018-colloquia-schedule. 

When: May 4th & 5th
Where: Welch Library Building, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Register here: https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/health-medicine-civil-unrest/

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Our own graduate student Emily Clark will present "'Such a Monster as I, May be Saved': Unnatural Mothers and Child Murder in New England Print Culture, 1693-1772" as part of our Spring 2018 Colloquia Series! 

When: 5/3, 3pm
Where: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU

Erika Dyck of University of Saskatchewan will present "Dying under the Skies with Diamonds: A Historical Look at Psychedelics and Palliative Care" as part of our Spring 2018 Colloquia Series! 

When: 4/17, 3pm
Where: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU

Mark Jenner of University of York will present "The Polite and the Excremental: Work, Commerce and Sanitation in Eighteenth-Century London " for the John J. Gilbride Memorial Lecture! 

When: 4/17, 4pm
Where: West Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Welch Library Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU

Our own graduate student Anna Weerasinghe will present "'Por serem peritas na arte': Witnessing Women's Medicine in Portuguese Goa, 1608-1611" as part of our Spring 2018 Colloquia Series! 

When: 4/12, 3pm
Where: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU

Our own postdoctoral fellow Rebecca Wilbanks, also a Hecht-Levi fellow at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, will present "Biology is Technology: Science Fiction, Artificial Life, and the Emergence of Synthetic Biology" as part of our Spring 2018 Colloquia Series! 

When: 3/15, 3pm
Where: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU

We are pleased to announce that Samuel K. Roberts, Jr. of Columbia University will present "Drugs, Politics, and Pariahs; Or How to Think About Race & Harm Reduction in an Opioid Epidemic" for the XXVIth Noguchi Lecture! Open to the public, but please RSVP to myrobbins@jhmi.edu. 

When: 3/12, 4pm
Where: West Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Welch Library Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU

Dr. Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr. will present “Drugs, Politics, & Pariahs: Or, How to Think About Race & Harm Reduction in an Opioid Epidemic” for the XXVIth Noguchi Lecture in the History of Medicine. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of the History of Medicine, the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, the Program in Racism, Immigration, & Citizenship, and the Department of Health Policy & Management.

Dr. Roberts is the former Director of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), and is Associate Professor of History (School of Arts & Sciences) and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (Mailman School of Public Health). He writes, teaches, and lectures widely on African-American history, medical and public health history, urban history, issues of policing and criminal justice, and the history of social movements. His book, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (UNC Press, 2009), demonstrates the historical and continuing links between legal and de facto segregation and poor health outcomes. In 2013-14, Dr. Roberts served as the Policy Director of Columbia University’s Justice Initiative, where he coordinated the efforts of several partners to bring attention to the issue of aging and the growing incarcerated elderly population. This work led to the publication of the widely-read landmark report, Aging in Prison Reducing Elder Incarceration and Promoting Public Safety (New York: Columbia University Center for Justice. November 2015. http://centerforjustice.columbia.edu/policy/aging-in-prison/).

Dr. Roberts currently is researching a book project on the history of drug addiction policy and politics from the 1950s to the 1990s, a period which encompasses the various heroin epidemics between the 1950s and the 1980s, the development of therapeutic communities, radical recovery movements, methadone maintenance treatment, and harm reduction approaches. He serves on a number of organizational advisory and executive boards and is a founding member of the Black Harm Reduction Working Group. He is also the host of the public health and social justice podcast PDIS: People Doing Interesting Stuff, available on iTunes and SoundCloud.

Dr. Roberts tweets from @SamuelKRoberts.

Julie Livingston of New York University will present "Cattle/Beef – Health, Desire, and the Problem of Self-Devouring Growth in Botswana" as part of our Spring 2018 Colloquia Series! 

When: 3/1, 3pm
Where: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU

David Carey, Jr. of Loyola Univeristy will present "Tropical Diseases in Mountainous Environments: Malaria and Highland Indians in Guatemala and Ecuador, 1900-1950" as part of our Spring 2018 Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series! 

When: 2/27, 12pm

Where: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU

Ramah McKay of University of Pennsylvania will present "Conditions of care in Maputo: Health and the gendered relations of life in the city" as part of our Spring 2018 Colloquia Series! 

When: 2/15, 3pm
Where: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU