We are pleased to announce that Dr. Alisha Rankin of Tufts University will present “The Skillful Surgeon: Surgical Expertise and Contested Authority in Early Modern Europe” for the 29th Hideyo Noguchi Lecture.

Presented by the Institute for the History of Medicine and co-sponsored by the Department of Medicine and the Department of Surgery, this hybrid event is open to all.

For virtual attendance, please use the zoom webinar link here.

For those attending virtually, please note that you can ask the speaker questions via the Q&A feature and an advocate will ask your question live in the room as time allows.

For those attending in person, the event will begin at 4pm in the Mountcastle Auditorium located in the Pre Clinical Teaching Building with access directly across from the back door of the Welch Library Building. You will need to show your Johns Hopkins badge or be asked to sign in as a visitor to enter the building.

When: 4/3 at 4pm
Where: Mountcastle Auditorium, Preclinical Teaching Building, East Baltimore Campus, JHU
Register: Click to register.

Dr. Alisha Rankin is Professor and Chair of History at Tufts University and a co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Her work focuses on the history of medicine and science in early modern Europe, with a particular focus on questions of experiment, expertise and authority. She is the author of two award-winning books, Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Europe (Chicago, 2013) and The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science (Chicago, 2021), alongside two edited collections and multiple articles. Currently she is co-editing the early modern volume of the Cambridge History of Medicine and working on a project on surgery, expertise, and authority in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and a project on the witches’ brew in early modern Europe and America.