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- Humans: A Monstrous History is a year old today! Here’s a 🧵 of some spinoff writings and interviews. 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
- Reposting this query for the #HistMed lunchbreak crowd in the UK and the breakfast crowd across the Atlantic. Would be grateful for reposts.
- A query for #HistMed colleagues: is anyone aware of good histories of ALS? I know Barron Lerner's chapter on Lou Gehrig in his book When Illness Goes Public (2006), but can't think of anything else.
- A query for #HistMed colleagues: is anyone aware of good histories of ALS? I know Barron Lerner's chapter on Lou Gehrig in his book When Illness Goes Public (2006), but can't think of anything else.
- cc: @levostregc.bsky.social Thankfully, there's a quite huge corpus of medical texts in Middle English. I'll have to look around, though, to find the specialized pediatric texts. (Ob/gyn is well covered.) mdr-maa.org/resource/voi... #histmed
- My daughter's pediatrician updated their patient portal and they allow "English, Middle (1100-1500)" as one of the options for "Primary Language." #medievalsky
- Come work with us! Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin. The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions. Deadline 28 Feb 2026 #histmed genderinsight.eu
- (Appel à communications) Avorter au XIXe siècle (lois, expériences, récits) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/02/avor... #histmed
- Sarah Parker Remond, American physician, abolitionist, orator. A prominent free-born black female abolition leader who traveled the U.S. and U.K. lecturing on slavery. Member of the American Anti-Slavery Society #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #woc #MedSky #HistMed
- 🎉My first peer reviewed article just published in Urban History as FirstView! Following on from my thesis, it covers privy pails & ashpits, the fly problem, public health, mortality & sanitation investment A smooth & stress free publishing experience @urbanhistory.bsky.social #OpenAccess #histmed
- 🎉My first peer reviewed article just published in Urban History as FirstView! Following on from my thesis, it covers privy pails & ashpits, the fly problem, public health, mortality & sanitation investment A smooth & stress free publishing experience @urbanhistory.bsky.social #OpenAccess #histmed
- The Canadian Museum of Health Care was awarded silver in the Community Votes Kingston contest for Best Museum. Thank you to everyone who voted for us! #Histmed #CanadianMuseumofHealthCare
- 📣New Issue 📣 With 9 articles (7 #OpenAccess) plus book reviews. Explores Greco-Roman medical tradition; medieval medical manuscripts; 19th c public health in Greek State; Japanese colonial policy for Ainu health; the women's health movement in India; and Leprosy control in colonial Nigeria #histmed
- Unbelievable to finally see it in print! #skystorians #histmed #histsci #philsci #drugsky #medsky #scisky @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- Thanks to 101.9 CFRC for featuring our name change! Listen below👇 #CaandianMuseumofHealthCare #Histmed
- #Job #PhD #Vienna Check out potential supervisors in #HistSTM #HPS #HistMed here careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... Deadline for application: 2 March 2026. 40 fully funded 4y PhD positions across various doctoral schools @univie.ac.at
- Doctorate SSH Call 2026! 40+ fully funded doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities, and cultural studies @univie.ac.at #PhD #PhDposition #Phdsky Join and international research community at one of Europe’s leading universities & apply now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
- Excited to share a new paper in Lancet Planetary Health! Our analysis of UK #pharmaceuticalpollution highlights growing environmental and health risks & identifies 37 intervention points for technical & structural reform: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #IDSky #STS #HistMed #HistSci #AMR
- Call for Papers - Space, Place, and Patients 2nd Annual Virtual Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers - @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social February 19-21, 2026, via Zoom Abstract Deadline: January 23, 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/c... #envhist #histmed #histnursing
- Very excited for the @cshhh.bsky.social upcoming seminar series. #HistMed & #HistSex folks should come along if they can! Keep an eye on the page as we've to come! www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...
- One for the #HistMed crowd. Great #OpenAccess article with 15 colour images.
- New article by Margaret Carlyle & Marcia Nichols on early 19thC anatomical flap books. It argues that their resurgence both signalled the stabilization of men's authority in childbirth and fuelled concerns around their tactile engagement with the female body. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Job at my beloved undergrad alma mater: VAP in #histsci #histmed at UW-Madison, due Jan 28. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/visitin...
- #job #HistMed #HistSTM #Vienna 3 fixed-term positions in the ERC project "Beyond Thalidomide" are open at University of Vienna. Deadline February 9, 2026. 1x PhD (3 ys) jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... 2 x Postdoc (each 2 ys) jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
- Deadline to submit your proposals is 11 January! #SSHM2026 Histories of health and medicine will explore what ‘in’ & ‘out’ can reveal about the impact of different gateways, routes, breaks, and barriers on people’s experiences of health, disability, illness, and healthcare in the past. #histmed
- As we welcome in the New Year 🎉 and things to look forward to in 2026…… A reminder of the deadline for proposals for #SSHM2026 (University of Leeds, 30 June- 3 July 2026) Deadline for abstracts: 11 January
- Deadline approaching for 'In/Out' SSHM2026 at University of Leeds! Submit your paper or panel proposals by 5pm GMT, 11 Jan 2026 to sshm2026leeds@leeds.ac.uk More details at: sshm.org/sshm-2026-in... @sshmedicine.bsky.social @historynerdess.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social #histmed
- Leuven Centre for Health Humanities organises a yearly lecture series. Join online (or on campus, at KU Leuven) This series explores entangled relations between nature and health with perspectives from medical history, psychology, disability & colonial studies, & environmental humanities. #histmed
- I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
- Today we have "Finding Black Lung in the Archives" by @drheathergreen.bsky.social and Kaley MacMullin This post is part of the Mining Danger Project niche-canada.org/2026/01/02/f... #envhist #histmed #mininghistory #cdnhist
- This Holiday season, we would like to introduce our collection of ‘Christmas Seals’, stamps you could attach to any letters or gifts. For a small cost, you could purchase a stamp and have the proceeds go to charity. The chosen cause was fighting the infectious disease tuberculosis. #Histmed
- New article out 🎉 Drawing on my PhD research, I explore the construction of the 'prostitute' and the 'client' within England's AIDS Policy in the late 1980s. Published with the @sshmedicine.bsky.social and now available to read here (though sadly not open access!): #histmed #histsex #AIDShistory
- After 30 years of exploring medical history, the Museum of Health Care looks back on its own. This intervention will disperse images from the Ann Baillie building’s long history to provide perspective on its roots as a nursing school and how far the Museum of Health Care has come. #histmed
- 🌟 PhD Opportunity in History of Health 🌟 Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950 to 1970 with Prof Catharine Coleborne Newcastle (or Sydney-based) Domestic students only Applications close 30 January 2026 ❗ More information ⬇️ www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear... #histSTM #histmed
- Our final online seminar for 2025 ⬇️ Next week, we have the wonderful Prof Alison Downham Moore and PhD candidate Michaela Malmberg presenting on "Women in Gynaecology" 🩺 When: Wednesday 17 December 7pm AEDT Where: email anzshm@anzshm.org.au for Zoom link #histmed #history #histSTM
- ✨SSHM Mid-Career Online Writing Retreat✨ funded by Wellcome Over 2 days: Friday 9th and Monday 12th January 2026 10am-5.30pm GMT This event is for SSHM members. To sign up and for more details see website Deadline for sign-up: 17 December 2025 (23:59 GMT) #histmed
