A lot has changed recently at McGill-Queen’s University Press. On the first day of Spring, we are excited to share what we've been working on with our authors, partners, colleagues, and supporters. Check out our Spring 2026 Newsletter!
AAFP Foundation Center in Leawood, Kansas.
AAFP-CHFM Foundation Center Presentation to the Board of Curators on April 9, 2026.
I was delighted to address the Board of Curators of The Center for the History of Family Medicine in Leawood, KS on Thursday, to report on my project: Healing, Wellness, and Family Medicine Resources, 1870-2020."
[The CHFM offers essay contests and grants: www.aafpfoundation.org/our-programs...
The Center for the History of Family Medicine is excited to welcome Dr. Frank W. Stahnisch to the archives as the 2025 recipient of the Sandra L. Panther Fellowship to research his project, “Holism and Integration: Healing, Wellness and Family Medicine Resources,1870–2020.”
Thank you very much to the PR and Media Team at the American Academy of Family Physicians for allowing me to talk about my research at the Center for the History of Family Medicine in Leawood, KS. We covered the curiosity and openness of family physicians to broader holistic concepts of care.
Practicing family medicine isn't easy on a good day, but it can be easier—and more fulfilling—with the right systems in place. Learn more about how the Whole Health Summit can help you thrive as a family physician: https://bit.ly/4qW7apv
AMF/Hannah Student Lectures in the History of Medicine and Health Care at the Calgary History of Medicine Society on April 13, 2026
The Calgary History of Medicine Society features the Student Lectures in the History of Medicine and Healthcare on April-13th, 2026 @ 5pm (MST).
Cal Wenzel Precision Health Bldg
3280 Hospital Drive NW
3rd Floor – Rose Rm
RSVP to marcia.garcia@ucalgary.ca
ZOOM Reg.:
ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Stahnisch: "Great Minds in Despair" (2025), review in Neuroforum (January, 2026).
Glad to share here that "Great Minds in Despair (2025)" has received three more positive reviews in "Neuroforum," "DG Neurologie," as well as in "Social History of Medicine."
[Please see: www.nwg-info.de/en/news/16262; www.springermedizin.de/dgneurologie...; academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...
Thank you so much to Canada Council for the Arts for continuing to fund the critical Public Lending Rights program.
Once an author or illustrator registers for the program, they start receiving a check every February to compensate for books that have been checked out from the library.
35th-Annual-History-of-Medicine-Days-Conference-University-of-Calgary-Full-Program-19-21-3-2026
Next Thursday will see the beginning of the 3-day-long annual and nation-wide History of Medicine Days Conference at the University of Calgary (March 19th-21st, 2026). 46 oral presentations and 46 posters on wide aspects from the global History of Medicine are given. Please earmark your calendars:
It was so fun to work with @rebeccasky.bsky.social on this video about the life and work of pioneering neuroscientist Marcelle Lapicque! Check it out here:
Amid shrinking tenure-track faculty positions, we must think creatively to keep early-career scientists afloat, writes @lucinauddin.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...
Keynote lecture by Professor Ahmed Ragab, MD, PhD at the forthcoming 35th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine on March 20th, 2026.
On March 20th, 2026, Professor Ahmed Ragab from Johns Hopkins University presents the keynote at the 35th Annual History of Medicine Days in Calgary. His talk is entitled "Rhythms of Care: Temporality in Medieval Islamic Medicine".
[For the conference program and information see: lnkd.in/ebsq_bKA]
Chances are you have not heard her name, but Marcelle Lapicque may have been the first Black woman neuroscientist in Europe.
By @avaskham.bsky.social, @rebeccasky.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/history-of-n...
Dr. Emmanuel Delille's (now: Nagoya University, Japan) guest presentation in the Calgary History of Medicine Society on Monday (Feb-23, 2026): "A Case Study from the History of Psychiatric Epidemiology".
We were delighted to have Dr. Emmanuel Delille (now: Nagoya University, Japan) as our guest speaker in the Calgary History of Medicine Society on Monday (Feb-23, 2026): "A Case Study from the History of Psych. Epidemiology." Thank you, Dr. Delille, for a lively presentation and engaging Q&A period!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for COEE2025, presented by @umontreal.ca, @polymtl.bsky.social & @hec.ca! We’re thrilled to bring COEE2026 to Ottawa, hosted by @uottawa.ca, from Nov 12-15. Registration opens in May. 🎉
HISTORY OF MEDICINE DAYS 2026 (University of Calgary) 35th Annual Calgary Conference - March 19, 20, & 21, 2026 Our Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Ahmed Ragab, MD, PhD who is currently an Associate Professor with the Institute of the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (United States).
Dear History of Medicine Community,
please earmark your calendars
HISTORY OF MEDICINE DAYS
35th Calgary Conference (19.-21.3.2026)
Keynote Speaker is Dr. A. Ragab (Johns Hopkins)
[www.ucalgary.ca/live-uc-ucalgary-site/si...
Emmanuel Delille (PhD) -- CHOMS Talk on February 23, 2026: A Historical Case Study from Psychiatric Epidemiology
Monday's (Feb-23th, 2026) talk in the Calgary History of Medicine Society features a presentation by Dr. Emmanuel Delille (Humboldt University, Berlin) on "A Historical Case Study from Psychiatric Epidemiology". The talk starts at 5 pm (MST). Register in advance:
ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
CHOICE connect - A publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Division of the American Library Association.
A first review by A. K. Ackerberg-Hastings of my recent book has appeared in CHOICE connect:
"Stahnisch complements and extends [previous historians’] work on German-speaking neuroscientists [... .] 'Great Minds in Despair' should be on the shelf of every research library."
MQUP: lnkd.in/eS8xCj69
📢 Événement demain!
Glad to share here that my new chapter on "Eugenics" has just been published in Thomas Teo's (York University, Toronto) edited collection, entitled "The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology" -- with Springer Nature: Stahnisch, F.W. (2026). Eugenics. In: Teo, T. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70581-6_447-1
Glad to share the publication of my new chapter on "Eugenics" in T. Teo's "The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology" (2026): Eugenics. In Teo, T. (ed) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Monday's (Jan-26th, 2026) online talk in the Calgary History of Medicine Society features a presentation by Dr John Jarrell (Dept of OBGYN, UCalgary) on "Dr. Earle P. Scarlett (1896-1982) - Biography and Humanistic Writing". The hybrid talk starts at 5 pm (MST).
[Register at: lnkd.in/e9KCcyJs ]
On January 15th, 2026, the Huntington Library and Southern California Society for the History of Medicine kindly hosted a history of medicine colloquium, in which I could share some perspectives from my recent book "Great Minds in Despair" (MQUP, 2025). Thank you to Prof. Manning for the invitation!
Thank you to the Huntington Lib. & Southern Calif. Soc. for the HoM for their invitation to present (Jan. 15th, 2026) my recent book "Great Minds in Despair". The start time was confirmed as 12 pm -- PST. Please see also: "Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine" www.chstm.org
Stahnisch Talk @ Huntington Library, January 15, 2026
I’m looking forward to talking next month to The Huntington Library & Southern California Society for the Hist. of Med. about my new book, Great Minds in Despair. What can we learn from the neuroscientist refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s? Please join us on Thurs., Jan. 15th, 2026 @ noon (PST)
McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, PQ and Kingston, ON, Canada):
Great Minds in Despair:
The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America
Examining the impacts and fates of the émigré researchers who helped to build biomedical science.
www.mqup.ca/Books/G/Grea...
Stahnisch Talk @ Huntington Library, January 15, 2026
I’m looking forward to talking next month to The Huntington Library & Southern California Society for the Hist. of Med. about my new book, Great Minds in Despair. What can we learn from the neuroscientist refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s? Please join us on Thurs., Jan. 15th, 2026 @ noon (PST)
