(Call for applications) Phd opportunity "Spaces of Health: Connecting Past and Present Experiences of Health and Wellbeing in Heritage" histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/les-... #histmed

Today’s Find: “Mercy Street” a PBS medical drama from 2016-17 that focused on two nurses at a hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, during the U.S. Civil War tinyurl.com/mr2nxwjm #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory

Today's Find: Hektoen International series "Famous Hospitals: Hillman Hospital" tinyurl.com/2p8kz49f #BirminghamAlabama #histmed #medicalhistory

1969 Apr 4: Dr. Denton Cooley performs first artificial heart transplant in patient Haskell Karp tinyurl.com/wwmy4rrz & tinyurl.com/2vp5sa25 #histmed #medicalhistory

Relaunch of History of Psychiatry and New Research on Psychiatry under the GDR Dear readers of H-Madness, Two pieces of news that may be of interest to the community: 1) Relaunch of History of PsychiatryFollowing the retirement of German E. Berrios, History of Psychiatry has …

Relaunching the journal History of Psychiatry

#histmed #histpsych

Eroshenko et al., "The Role of the Caspian, Aral and Balkhash Lakes in the Spread and Preservation of Yersinia pestis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in the 20th and 21st Centuries," www.preprints.org/manuscript/2.... NB: this is a modern strain, not "medieval" at all. 3/3 #histmed 🧪

Created a new file in my "Global History of Health" folder today for Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) as a "new" emerging disease. (Friends, it's an ancient disease, and we were just on the verge of getting it under control: link.springer.com/article/10.1...) #histmed #aDNA 🧪🗃️

Today’s Find: “Outlander” season 6 episode “The Hour of the Wolf” in which Claire the time traveler demonstrates the power of ether inhalation in Revolutionary Era America tinyurl.com/4uamj3kx & tinyurl.com/2d7cta8h #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

Today's Patent Medicine Trade Card: George G. Dort & Co, Druggists & Pharmacists of Keene, New Hampshire tinyurl.com/4kpdbvpb Trade cards often used cute animals #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: William Walker [8 May 1824-12 Sept 1860] was an American physician, journalist & mercenary in Mexico & Central America. Briefly President of Nicaragua. Graduate of Univ of Penn Medical School tinyurl.com/3eyuvhcy #histmed #medicalhistory

Today's Find: April 3, 1896, article about two women in Allentown, Penn. chloroformed by burglars tinyurl.com/yc8fsbg9 #histmed #medicalhistory

In early modern Italy many medicines, especially patent ones, came with a little sheet informing patients of how to use them, when, and for what. Medical regulation came out of state offices and guild government #earlymodern #histmed

Forthcoming publication in SSHM's Social Histories of Medicine series published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
Out September 2026!
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Any recent history of laetrile? Thank you! #histmed 🗃️

Today’s Find: Museum at the Medical College of Alabama in Mobile ca. 1890 via UAB Archives tinyurl.com/ycy9xztc #histmed #medicalhistory #alabama

Today's Vintage Book Cover: Jerome Darwin Engel [b. 1909] published at least three medical novels 1940-42; this one in 1941 tinyurl.com/5bskzxmk #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction

1805 April 2: Danish writer Hans C. Andersen was born. He witnessed James Young Simpson & others experimenting w/ether while dining at Simpson's in Edinburgh on 17 Aug 1847 tinyurl.com/uvzxugy #medicalhistory #histmed #anesthesiahistory Died 4 Aug 1875

Portrait of Christopher Merrett, by George Perfect Harding, after an unknown artist. The image shows a white man with long curly light brown hair wearing an orange robe with a white necktie.

In our latest blog the @rcphysicians.bsky.social current Harveian Librarian Anita Simonds explores the career of the RCPs first – Christopher Merrett. With insights into the history of the RCP, medical practice, & social change in 17th century London.

👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/rise-an...

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16 April 2026 1pm GMT Online Seminar, WG1 & WG4 welcome Prof Barry Doyle to speak on the topic 'What is a hospital' Link via bulletin #CA22159 #EuroHistHealth #MedHums #HistMed

Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England - Economic History Society This blog post by Rebecca Wynter (NIAS-KNAW and University of Birmingham) and Len Smith (University of Birmingham) is based on a paper presented to the ‘Women & Entrepreneurship: Agency, Experience, a...

🔔Hear ye, hear ye🔔

New blog post by me & Len Smith: 'Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England'. Hosted by the Economic History Society's The Long Run, we argue that these women open up mental health histories in a whole new way.

#HistPsych #HistSTM #HistGender #HistMed 🗃️

Winners of Fauci Award in STEM and Classics The CAMWS Committee for the Dr. Anthony Fauci Award in STEM and Classics is pleased to announce the results of this year’s award competition. From an extremely impressive pool of 47 applicants (a record for this award), the committee has selected the following awardees: First Prize: Emily Ding (Harvard University), Major: Human Evolutionary Biology, Minor: Classical Civilization First Runner-Up: Kai Lyn Jones (Southeastern Oklahoma State University), Majors (2): History, Biological Health Sciences, Minor: Chemistry Second Runner-Up: Virankha Peter (Johns Hopkins University), Majors (3): Classics, Cognitive Science, Philosophy Honorable Mention: Lily Sobey (Texas Tech University), Majors (2): Classics, Mathematics, Minors (2): Latin, Economics Congratulations to these awardees, and to all of the applicants on their excellent work combining the study of the Classics and STEM disciplines!

Winners of the Dr. Anthony Fauci Award in STEM and Classics have been announced. They report a record number of submissions this year, which is excellent news for #ClassicsSky #histmed and so many other fields that benefit from citizens who are learned in the sciences AND the Humanities! 🧪🗃️

100th speaker! 🥳

Come join the S&T in Asia online seminar series @ Harvard for this talk by Michitake Aso on Agent Orange and dioxin knowledge in postwar Vietnam.

🗓 Tue (4/14)
🕥 10:30 am ET
📍 Over Zoom

Register: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia%E2%...

#histstm #envhist #histmed #histsci

Making invalidity fair: schizophrenia, medical uncertainty and the certification of war disability pensions in post-war Britain | BJHS Themes | Cambridge Core Making invalidity fair: schizophrenia, medical uncertainty and the certification of war disability pensions in post-war Britain

I used archival case files to reconstruct histories of psychotic veterans denied disability pensions in post-WWII Britain; I argue that the idea of stress-induced schizophrenia, popularized later by anti-psychiatry, emerged in tribunals as part of a liberal critique of technocracy. #histmed #histsci

Histories of Medicine: A Workshop in Honour of George Weisz histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/en-l... #histmed

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Today’s Find: Actress & songwriter Grace Worchester Root died of chloroform poisoning in Portland, Maine 15 July 1898 tinyurl.com/4uwbrmh2 Born 25 April 1869 #histmed #medicalhistory

Today’s Find: “The Tuberculosis Nurse” by Ellen La Motte [1873-1961] published 1915 tinyurl.com/evdpf5j6 Also wrote “The Backwash of War” abt her experiences in WWI & several books on the opium trade tinyurl.com/5n82t5c5 #histmed #medicalhistory #histnuring #nursinghistory

1963 April 1: American TV medical soap operas "General Hospital" [ABC] & "The Doctors" [NBC] premiered. "The Doctors" ended 31 Dec 1982 after more than 5000 episodes; "General Hospital" is still going #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv

1578 April 1: William Harvey was born bit.ly/1mCYtwB Published "De Motu Cordis" in 1628. First to describe correctly the circulation of blood & the heart's role in pumping. Died 3 June 1657 #histmed #medicalhistory

#HistNursing #HistMed 💙