Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins

Also from Bulletin of the History of Medicine:

Nana Osei Quarshie’s article “Psychiatry on a Shoestring” has taken its second award — this time the Walter D. Love Prize in History from the North American Conference on British Studies

Read free thru 14 June
https://ow.ly/FpYl50RZ4Mp

It’s awards season for Bulletin of the History of Medicine!

Congratulations to Lucia Dacome, winner of the Percy G. Adams Prize for “Intimate Connections: Marie Marguerite Biheron and Her ‘Little Boudoir’”

Read free thru 14 June
https://ow.ly/y40r50RZ427

Many congratulations to Dr Alex Parry who successfully defended his dissertation “Injured America: Home Accidents and the Voluntary Safety System, c. 1910–1980.” Well done Alex!

Many congratulations to Dr Michael Healey who successfully defended his dissertation “Measuring Maladjusment: Psychiatry, Paper Machines, and the Economization of Public Mental Health, 1925-1975,” Well done Michael and good luck as you return to Med School!

Many congratulations to Dr Kristin Brig-Ortiz who successfully defended her dissertation "Hydro-Normativity: Water Management and Urban Public Health in the Cape Colony and Natal, 1830-1905." Well done Kristin!

Last chance to register for Term 4 (Mar 25-May 19) courses in our online program including Introduction to the History of Medicine, Survey 2: Medicine from the Black Death to the Scientific Revolution, and Social & Cultural Histories of Disease.

All are open to first time students!

For more information about our program, visit our website at https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/online-program-in-the-history-of-medicine/

For registration instructions, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/online-program-courses-registration-and-payment/

Join us today for Day 2 of the hybrid conference Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society!

Conference: Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society – Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine An international conference to be held March 7-9, 2024 in Baltimore, MD hosted by Johns Hopkins University, organized by the Injuries Studies Research Network of scholars and practitioners, and funded in part through the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Register now for Term 4 (Mar 25-May 19) courses in our online program including Introduction to the History of Medicine, Survey 2: Medicine from the Black Death to the Scientific Revolution, and Social & Cultural Histories of Disease.

All are open to first time students!

For more information, visit our website at

Online Program in the History of Medicine – Department of the History of Medicine The Department of the History of Medicine offers a suite of graduate-level online courses. Students may take individual courses or pursue a Certificate or MA Degree in the History of Medicine. You can register for courses and find out how to apply for the MA or Certificate.

Want to know more about our fully funded on-site MA Critical Approaches in Science, Technology, & Medicine? Applications are due 3/1, but you can join us for a virtual open house tomorrow 2/16 at 9am EST. More details and link at

Critical Approaches in Science, Technology, and Medicine (CAST-M) Masters Program – Department of the History of Medicine CAST-M is a fully-funded MA program which supports paths to further doctoral study for emerging scholars from backgrounds that are traditionally marginalized in STEM-adjacent humanities fields. We aim to help CAST-M students develop incisive analytical skills for research in fields such as science s...

We are hiring a 2-year postdoctoral fellow for the Dept of the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine set to start July 2024. For more information and to apply, visit

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We are accepting applications for our Critical Approaches to Science, Technology, and Medicine (CAST-M) Master's program until March 1, 2024. For more details, to visit one of our virtual open houses, and to apply, visit

Critical Approaches in Science, Technology, and Medicine (CAST-M) Masters Program – Department of the History of Medicine CAST-M is a fully-funded MA program which supports paths to further doctoral study for emerging scholars from backgrounds that are traditionally marginalized in STEM-adjacent humanities fields. We aim to help CAST-M students develop incisive analytical skills for research in fields such as science s...

Register now for “Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society,” an international conference organized by the Injuries Studies Research Network of scholars and practitioners. The conference will be hosted at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on March 7-9, 2024 and via Zoom. The event will bring together scholars, researchers, and policymakers from the humanities, social sciences, public health, and medicine to chart how individuals and communities live with and make meaning out of injuries.

For more information, the preliminary schedule, and to register, visit https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/rethinkinginjuriesconf/

Inquiries: [email protected]

Celebrating another award for Nana Quarshie’s Psychiatry on a Shoestring!

The Bulletin of the History of Medicine article won the Walter D. Love Prize in History from the North American Conference on British Studies
https://ow.ly/gu5g50Qf2Nb

Read free on Project MUSE thru Dec 31
https://ow.ly/95zi50Qf2N9

Call for Papers

“Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society,” an international conference organized by the Injuries Studies Research Network of scholars and practitioners.

The conference will be hosted at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on March 7-9, 2024. The event will bring together scholars, researchers, and policymakers from the humanities, social sciences, public health, and medicine to chart how individuals and communities live with and make meaning out of injuries.

Deadline for Abstracts: Friday, October 15, 2023
Notification of Acceptance: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Deadline for Final Presentations: Wednesday, February 28, 2024

For more information and to submit visit:
https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/rethinkinginjuriesconf/

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, & Public Health, 1890–1930."

Delivering Bacteriology to the American Homemaker: Correspondence Education, Kitchen Experiments, and Public Health, 1890–1930 | Isis: Vol 114, No 2 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 bacteriology regarded de...

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 | American Association for the History of Medicine 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...

Join us 5/16 @ 4pm at Bird in Hand for a book talk with Dr. Lisa Haushofer discussing her recent book, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition, in conversation with Anne Kveim Lie and others. https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/book-talk-with-dr-lisa-haushofer/

Psst... 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.

Learn more, spread the word, or apply now: https://apply.interfolio.com/125130

Congratulations to for her successful Discovery Award "Find the Midwife" along with Noelene Jeffers (Nursing), Annette Porter (Arts & Sciences) & Bernadette Wegenstein (Arts & Sciences)!

Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards: 2023 Awardees | VPR at JHU In 2023, 35 Discovery Awards were given to interdisciplinary faculty teams across twelve units of Johns Hopkins. From minimizing cancer cell polyploidy and maximizing cancer cell death with low dosage stochastic treatment to reimagining Johns Hopkins’ midcentury science television show, these Disc...

The Spring issue of the Bulletin is now available, featuring a forum on the history of abortion in the wake of the Dobbs decision, as well as articles on malaria therapy, asylums in disability history, and 1970s "he**in mothers." The issue also includes book reviews – and debuts a new look on the cover: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24

Come learn more about how to do research in the Opioid Industry Documents Archive on Friday, May 5th. Details: tinyurl.com/oida-sp23

TODAY, May 1st at 4pm for the 48th Hideyo Noguchi Lecture in the History of Medicine featuring Dr. Stephen T. Casper presenting "Punch Drunk Slugnuts: A Cultural History of Violence, Stigma, Sport, and Concussion. "
For in-person details & webinar link: https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/noguchi-lecture2023/

Check out Dr. Nathaniel Comfort’s recent essay in Nature re-evaluating the legacy of Rosalind Franklin! This essay also had detailed coverage in the New York Times about the piece and its significance. Congrats Nathaniel!

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

Join us on Monday, May 1st at 4pm for the 48th Hideyo Noguchi Lecture in the History of Medicine featuring Dr. Stephen T. Casper presenting "Punch Drunk Slugnuts: A Cultural History of Violence, Stigma, Sport, and Concussion. "
For more details, visit: https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/noguchi-lecture2023/

Kudos to PhD Candidate Alex Parry for his essay in Nursing Clio this week on “Bags O’Glass & Bayonet Eyes: Toy Safety & Consumer Protection, 1968-1976.” It’s a timely glimpse into Alex’s broader dissertation work & a great read with your morning coffee.

Bags O’ Glass and Bayonet Eyes: Toy Safety and Consumer Protection, 1968–1976 On December 11, 1976, Saturday Night Live aired its first “Consumer Probe” sketch on the sale of unsafe toys. Drawing on print and broadcast safety warnings from organizations like Consumer Reports…

Huge congrats to Dr. Jeremy Greene on this incredible accomplishment: he has been named one of the 2023 Guggenheim Fellows in History of Science, Technology & Economics!

But wait, that’s not all; Adjunct Professor Projit Mukharji, has also been awarded the fellowship this year!

Online program MA student Dr Abbie Zuger has an essay in the most recent issue of the Hastings Center Report. Abbie is an infectious disease specialist based in New York City and has had decades of clinical experience in HIV care. The essay comes from work Abbie did on the history of HIV home testing in our Healing Spaces research seminar, under the guidance of postdoc Dr Jacob Moses who is now at UTMB. Congratulations Abbie!

Zuger, Abigail, “ Public Health at the Kitchen Table: Lessons from the Home HIV Test's Long Road to Approval,” Hastings Center Report 53, no. 1 (2023): 10– 16.

Public Health at the Kitchen Table: Lessons from the Home HIV Test's Long Road to Approval Home diagnostic testing is becoming part of the modern medical landscape, but many ethical and policy questions remain unresolved. Most of them first surfaced during the long regulatory deliberations...

Check out our very own PhD candidate SJ Zanolini’s recent book review featured in H-Sci-Med-Tech! Congrats SJ!

Zanolini on Menzies, ‘Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China’

H-Net Reviews Nicholas K. Menzies. Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. xx + 288 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74946-4.

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Congrats to our own Anna Weerasinghe, whose recent Nursing Clio essay was highlighted in the AHA’s newsletter!

Read the blog post here:

Have Leprosy, Will Travel: A Case of Early Modern Medical Tourism On the tropical beach of a remote island, a group of ailing Europeans was spread across the white sands. Some lay soaking in medicinal baths assisted by local attendants; others dined on a special …