History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
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Founded in 1929, we are the oldest academic department of the History of Medicine in the English-speaking world. We are dedicated to scholarship on the histories of medicine, disease, the health sciences, and their relationships to society.
History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
1M ago
Sharing the good news that History of Medicine postdoc Dr. Antoine Johnson has been selected as one of only ten scholars inducted into the inaugural postdoctoral class of the Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society.
The selection committee commented that Antoine exemplified “the five Bouchet qualities of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy for those traditionally underrepresented in the academy.” Those of you who have had the good fortune to work with Antoine during his postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins know how true these words are, and how lucky we have been to hav ..read more
History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
2M ago
Postdoctoral Fellowship, History of Medicine & the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine
Johns Hopkins University: School of Medicine: Department of the History of Medicine
The Department of the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (CMHSM), Johns Hopkins University, seeks applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in history of medicine and medical humanities. The fellow will have teaching and administrative responsibilities in the department’s online program in the history of medicine (OPHOM) which offers Certificate and MA de ..read more
History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
5M ago
We are thrilled to both present and celebrate PhD candidate Jessica Hester’s latest publication in Nursing Clio titled “In 19th-Century Philadelphia, Female Medical Students Lobbied Hard for Mutual Aid”. It’s a brilliant article on an under-researched area. Congratulations Jessica on a fantastic article!
In 19th-Century Philadelphia, Female Medical Students Lobbied Hard for Mutual Aid
By JESSICA LEIGH HESTER • October 11, 2023 ..read more
History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
7M ago
Check out Dr. Jeremy Greene’s article published today in The Atlantic on his new research project. Congrats Jeremy!
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/hypodermic-needles-disposable-syringes-washed-up-beaches/675167 ..read more
History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
8M ago
Congrats to PhD Candidate Emily Clark, runner-up for the William and Mary Quarterly New Voices award!!! It recognizes a distinguished article by an author in graduate study at the time of final submission.
Emily Clark (Johns Hopkins University) received an Honorable Mention for “‘Their Negro Nanny Was With Child By A White Man’: Gossip, Sex, and Slavery in an Eighteenth-Century New England Town” (October 2022 ..read more
History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
9M ago
On June 23, 2023, our very own Dr. Mary Fissell was featured on CNN Health chatting about the history of abortion!
Check it out – https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/23/health/abortion-is-ancient-history-and-that-matters-today-scn/index.html
Abortion is ancient history: Long before Roe, women terminated pregnancies
“This whole innocent unborn life that is the language of the American right today, that’s only (in recent) decades. Sometimes abortion was something people didn’t like because it pointed to illicit sex. Women have always terminated pregnancies, for as far back in the historical record we ..read more
History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
10M ago
Check out our very own Dr. Jeremy Greene at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) Nostros Conference 2023 in Athens, Greece tomorrow! This 4-day global conference focuses on Mental Health, and features the likes of former President Barack Obama, Glenn Close, and Goldie Hawn (just to name a few…).
Jeremy and our former visiting PhD student Ketil Slagstad will present a panel on “The power of diagnostic labels: History, psychiatry, and the pathologization of sexual and gender minorities”. This panel will go live at 9:00AM ET, so be sure to tune in!
In the past 150 years ..read more
History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
11M ago
Please join us in congratulating PhD Candidate Alex Parry on publication in the latest issue of ISIS of his article, “Delivering Bacteriology to the American Homemaker: Correspondence Education, Kitchen Experiments, and Public Health, 1890–1930.”
Congrats Alex!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/725048
Abstract
Over the course of the Progressive Era, revised scientific accounts of the connections between dust, germs, and disease recast debates over public health. The American School of Home Economics and other institutions affiliated with the emerging subfield of household bac ..read more
History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
11M ago
Congratulations to HoM Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Antoine Johnson, who just won the 2023 Pressman-Burroughs Award from the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM)! This well-deserved early career award recognizes Antoine’s exceptional promise!
Pressman Award Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development
Award in 20th Century History of Medicine or Biomedical Sciences
This award honors Jack D. Pressman, Ph.D., a distinguished historian of medicine and Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the ..read more
History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University
11M ago
We’re Hiring!
The Department of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine invites applications for tenure-track faculty at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.
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The Department of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine invites applications for tenure-track faculty at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. The Department seeks to hire a historian of health and modern medicine in geographical or thematic areas not covered by existing Department faculty. We ..read more