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.

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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.

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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

 

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.

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

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.

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 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

Anne M. Lovell of Columbia University will present "Specific Intellectuals, Partial Publics and Other Advocates: an Anthropological Peregrination across Public Psychiatry, Pharmaceuticals and Global Mental Health" as part of the speaker series entitled Engaged Scholarship, Learning Through Health Activism, which is sponsored by the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine.

When: 2/13
Where: Mergenthaler 431 (AGHI conference room), Homewood Campus, JHU

Find out more information about the "Engaged Scholarship, Learning Through Health Activism" speaker series here.

​Myles Jackson of New York University will present "Physicists, Physiologists, and the Standardization of Musical Performance and Musicians’ Bodies" as part of our Spring 2018 Colloquia Series! 

When: 2/1, 3pm
Where: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU

New online CME modules in the History of Medicine available now: tinyurl.com/jhhomcme!

Michael Liu of Academia Sinica will present their colloquia paper entitield "The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Cold War East Asia."

Join us in the Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building on the East Baltimore Campus at 3pm!

For more information on the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia Series, see the full list here. 

Daniel Todes of Johns Hopkins University, left, and Eleonora Filippova of the Archive of Russian Academy of Sciences will present "Prayer as Paradigm: Aleksei Ukhtomsky, Old Belief Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Physiology of Attention."

Join us at 300 Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus at 3pm!

For more information on the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia Series, see the full list here. 

Monica Azzolini of University of Edinburgh will present "Skirting Disaster: The Making of Patron Saints of Earthquakes in Early Modern Italy and Beyond" in a talk co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe.

Join us at Arellano Theater, Levering Hall, Homewood Campus at 3pm!

For more information on the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia Series, see the full list here. 

The Institute of the History of Medicine & the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute present: 

Media Medica: Medicine & the Challenge of New Media

Medicine never takes place in a vacuum - the spaces between patient, doctor, and scientist have always been mediated by a set of paper, analog, and digital technologies. Join an international group of scholars in humanities and social sciences, physicians and medical educators to explore the changing role of new media in medicine.

When: October 27-28, 2017

Where: Johns Hopkins Medical and University Campuses

For program & registration information, see:  www.mediamedicasite.wordpress.com.

Victor Braitberg of University of Arizona, far left, and Jeremy Greene of Johns Hopkins University, just left, will present their colloquia paper entitield "Innovation on the Reservation: Information Technology and Health Systems Research in the Tohono O’odham Nation."

Join us in the Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building on the East Baltimore Campus at 3pm!

For more information on the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia Series, see the full list here. 

George Weisz of McGill University will present their colloquia paper entitield "International Research Policy and the Emergence of the New Global Health 1974-1997."

Join us in the Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building on the East Baltimore Campus at 3pm!

For more information on the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia Series, see the full list here. 

Helen Rozwadowski of University of Connecticut will present their colloquia paper entitield "Frontiers of Discovery:  Changing Meanings of “Frontier” from Frederick Jackson Turner to John F. Kennedy and Beyond."

Join us at 300 Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus at 3pm!

For more information on the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia Series, see the full list here. 

​Jennifer Tucker of Wesleyan University will present their colloquia paper entitield "Chemical Exposure: The Victorian Alkali Industry through the Camera's Lens."

Join us in the Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building on the East Baltimore Campus at 3pm!

For more information on the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia Series, see the full list here. 

Ivano Dal Prete of Yale University will present their colloquia paper entitield "On the Edge of Eternity: Thinking of an Ancient Earth in Pre-modern Europe."

Join us at 300 Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus at 3pm!

For more information on the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia Series, see the full list here. 

Elise Burton of Cambridge University will present their colloquia paper entitield "The Presence of Absence: G6PD Deficiency and “Medical Archaeology” in the Middle East."

Join us in the Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Welch Library Building on the East Baltimore Campus at 3pm!

For more information on the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia Series, see the full list here. 

Yulia Frumer, PhD is a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the department of the History of Science and Technology. Her colloquia paper is entitield "Humanoid Robotics in Japan: A Case for the Cognitive Approach."

Join us at 300 Gilman Hall, Homewood Campus at 3pm!

For more information on the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology Fall 2017 Colloquia Series, see the full list here. 

Registration is now open for our Online Program in the History of Medicine! Click here to register for Term 1 by August 18. Please note term information and registration deadlines below. For additional information, see our Courses page.

Term 1: Monday, August 28–Friday, October 20, 2017 (registration deadline: Friday, August 18)

Course: 150.726 Survey of the History of Medicine 3: Science and the Practice of Medicine

Term 2: Monday, October 23–Tuesday, December 19, 2017 (registration deadline: Friday, October 13)

Course: 150.727 Survey of the History of Medicine 4: Biomedicine in Context

 

 

Image: The benefits of using quinine and a mosquito net, illustrated by the homecoming of a soldier. Source: Wellcome Library, London. Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Biomedical Objects in Africa:
Production, Testing, and Distribution
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, W5030
3/3/2017
7:30am-12:30pm

Global health interventions in the 21st century have become increasingly reliant on the use of biomedical objects—vaccines, artemisinin combination therapies, antiretroviral drugs, insecticide impregnated bednets, vitamin A capsules, and ready-to-use therapeutic foods like “plumpy-nut”—to improve the health of peoples living in resource-poor countries across the globe, and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. At first glance, the use of these technologies has resulted from a linear process of development and production, testing in the field, followed by their adoption by global health institutions and distribution through networks involving manufacturers, donor organizations, and NGOs. Yet a closer examination of each stage of this pipeline reveals a more complicated narrative. This narrative raises multiple questions. Where are biomedical objects produced and who gets to produce them? How do biomedical objects move from being validated in local settings to being accepted as universally applicable technologies?  How are decisions regarding the distribution of biomedical objects shaped by wider economic policies related to the role of markets versus public sector organizations in the provision of health care? How has the need to “market” interventions contributed to the reliance of global health organizations on the application of biomedical objects? What happens when biomedical objects become consumer goods? These and related questions will be explored in this workshop. The panels include researchers from the U.S., England, and South Africa who have studied global health from the perspectives of history, anthropology, sociology, medicine, public health, and sciences and technology studies.  

Precirculated papers. Registration (by email only) is required to attend. Contact Heidi Morefield. ***REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 24th.***

Biomedical Objects in Africa: Production, Testing, and Distribution

A Joint Tele-Workshop with the Johns Hopkins Critical Global Health Seminar, the Johns Hopkins Africa Seminar, the Institute of the History of Medicine,  and the Stellenbosch University Transdisciplinary Health and Development Studies Programme

Breakfast 7:30-8:00

Introduction: 8:00-8:15 Randall Packard, Johns Hopkins, Lindsey Reynolds, Stellenbosch University

Panel 1 (8:15am to 10:00am) What Makes a Biomedical Object?

Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, Johns Hopkins, Making Susceptible to research: The history of an insecticide-treated bednet trial in western Kenya.

Marissa Mika, University College London, Where There is No Incinerator: The Thin Line Between Disposability and Reuse of Protective Gear in African Health Work.

Thomas Cousins, Stellenbosch University and Michelle Pentecost, University of Cape Town, 'Digestion, immunity and vitality': nutriceuticals, ready-to-use-therapeutic foods, and the temporary as the Future.

.Discussants: Michael Degani, Johns Hopkins, and Anna Versfeld, University of Cape Town

 

Panel 2: (10:15 am to 12:00 pm) The Production, Testing and Distribution of Biomedical Objects

Nitsan Chorev,  Brown University,  Making Medicines in Kenya

Anne Pollock, Georgia Tech, Materializing Pharmaceutical Information in South Africa

Lindsey Reynolds, Stellenbosch University and Brown University, “Can Biomedical Objects be Universal? Testing, Adopting and Adapting ‘Universal test and treat’ for HIV Prevention in South Africa

Discussants: Reshma Ramachandran, Johns Hopkins; TBA

 

Sum Up Discussion: (12:00-12:30) Kris Peterson, University of California-Irvine

 

Working Lunch: 12:30 to 2:00 (limited to workshop panelists) at Institute of the History of Medicine: Round table on critical global health studies.

 

 

 

Coming soon! Our CME program will launch 1/3!