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
Excited to announce that registration for the 'Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity' conference (University of Glasgow, 15 June) is now open. See the draft programme and book a space here: figments2026.eventbrite.co.uk/
#medhums #madstudies
👇 This looks like a cracking session for #Skystorians and #Archivists #MedHums #HistMed #HistNursing #HistMidwifery #ReproHist #Archives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-wi...
'What's the point? Medicine needs the Humanities' - fantastic new podcast episode from @bmj.com Medical Humanities. #medhums #medicaleducation
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-hbcfs-...
📣New Event 📢
'Teaching Mental Health Humanities', feat. @harbottlestores.bsky.social & Grace Lucas. Come, think, & share methodologies with us & leave with new ideas!
Online, Wed 29 April, 3-4.30pm UK time
For the link, email/DM me, @stinaface.bsky.social or Cheryl McGeachan
#MedHums
This blog is part of @torchoxford.bsky.social The Public's Health project, which looks at the history and ethics of moving images in public health, in partnership with the British Film Institute (BFI)
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/bfi-collabor...
#mentalhealth #fim #skystorian #medhums #publichealth
For those who may be interested, the eventual introduction of the 1994 Stillbirth Act means that if you experienced a #stillbirth in #Ireland before 1995, you are still able to retrospectively register your baby's birth. #ReproHist #HistMed #MedHums #HistMidwifery #ReproductiveLoss #Miscarriage
Program is now out for #HSTM2026 24 April 2026 hstmnetworkireland.org/2026/03/16/h... @unioflimerick.bsky.social #Skystorians #Speirgorm #HSTM #HistMed #MedHums
Then there's Christy's, @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social and Iro Filippaki's agenda-setting article on injury studies! A truly interdisciplinary emergent field (and a powerful network, check them out!) that has the potential to disrupt some of the most established concepts in #medhums and #histmed
There is still time to send applications!
#histmed #photohist #medhums #photo #ethics
Excellent review in @medindonews.bsky.social of A Cultural History of Vertigo: Unbalanced by @dranindyar.bsky.social
www.medicalindependent.ie/life/book-re...
#medhums
Woman in white dress with small boys standing in tunnel - early Victorian era
#SaveTheDate for #HSTM #HSTMIreland #HSTMNetwork Annual Meeting 24 April 2026 hosted by our lovely colleagues @unioflimerick.bsky.social Convenor Dr José M Moreno - Theme *** The History of Knowledge in Ireland - Where do we Stand Today? *** #HistMed #MedHums #TechHist #SciHist #Skystorians
Hybrid Workshop 12 May 2026 #CFP The Child Patient and Medical Expertise in Times of War, Crisis and Transformation (20th century). The full call 👉 shorturl.at/sylPI 👉 Abstracts Due by 27 March 2026 #HistMed #MedHums
Delighted to share our fascinating blog post on #rhubarb as a medicine within #Chinese and #European pharmaceutical traditions by
@kingsenglish.bsky.social
doctoral researcher Lin Yan Wong herbalhistory.org/home/a-tale-... #histherb #earlymodern #medhums
Happy to say I'm now an associate editor for @the-polyphony.bsky.social. I'm particularly interested in pitches on the intersections between health and the built environment, but would love to hear from anyone who wants to write about their #medhums work! More info: thepolyphony.org/get-involved/
Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event!
@durhamimh.bsky.social
#histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts
This looks like a brilliant role with the #MedHums team at Durham (2 year postdoc, 28 hours/week) ‘Amplifying the mental health of Black university students: A Black, Mad and Disability Studies Intersectional Inquiry’: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ154/p...
WG4 Seminar : Socialist Tropical Medicine:
Of Pathologies, Bodies & Geopolitics by Dr Bogdan Cristian Iacob 1PM GMT - 5 March 2026 ONLINE link in bulletin #Skystorians #HistMed #MedHums #TropicalMed #EuroHistHealth #CA22159
Lunctime Seminar: How the cobalt bomb did change the cancer services at the Hospital in 1950s-1960s Barcelona by Dr Alfons Zarzoso *** RESCHEDULED to 26 Feb 2026 *** at 12.30pm CET - link via email. #Skystorians #HistMed #MedHums
WG5 Seek Papers: Ethical Considerations in Medical Museums & GLAM Sector - Cluj, Romania 7-8 May 2026 Workshop - see email for details #MedHums #HistMed #GLAM #Museums #Skystorians
Lunchtime Seminar: Making (up) healthy people: A German-German history of health education, 1945–1967 by Dr Christian Sammer - link via email. 27 Feb at 1pm CET #Skystorians #MedHums #HistMed
Deadline for abstracts: February 6th!
#histmed #histsci #medhums #histmaths #histphi #histpsych
P.s. Our Weather, Climate and Health research theme co-led by @hepach.org, me, Jed Stevenson (Geog, Soci, Anthro) has a webpage and our event line-up can be found here: mhep.github.io/wch/#events
Inc. webinars+ in-person workshops + hybrid roundtables
#medhums #envhums #sociology #climate
Working Group 1 seminar 23 January 2026 1pm CET
Known and trusted’: Treating patients in secret during the Irish War of Independence by Kevin Finnan (Dublin City University, Ireland) - zoom link via the news bulletin #EuroHistHealth #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians
#Spain is where all the action is in 2026!! Following our Madrid event, our University of Granada hosts welcome #ReproHist scholars to #HistMed #MedHums workshop. Zoom link will issue to registered attendees only. #HistNursing #HistMidwifery #Skystorians #GenderHist #WomensHistory #HistHealth
This image is the cover of Donaghy's book, which features a 17th century Dutch oil painting of a doctor inspecting a pregnant woman's urine.
Returning from holidays to the delightful news that my book, based on my PhD, has just been published 🌟
Mola, False Conception, and False Pregnancy in British Medicine, 1550–1850
Buy from Boydell & Brewer for 35% off with code BB135 ⬇️
boydellandbrewer.com/book/mola-fa...
#earlymodern #medhums
Continuity and Change in Southern European and Mediterranean Healthcare (1850–2000) hosted at Facultad de Medicina Alcalá de Henares university by WG1 this Fri & Sat - this is hybrid so check bulletin for link if you can't join in person #HistMed #Skystorians #MedHums
I didn't make it to this last year but what a great theme! #CFP extended 22 Jan for any #speirgorm #historians who write on knowledge, science, tech, philosophy, medicince and #medhums
Coming along to #HSTM2026 is José Moreno #UL a #historian of Maritime History #MeetUp #Speirgorm #CFP #Skystorians #MarineHistory #Limerick #EarlyModern
#HSTM2026 link👉 shorturl.at/2c6KW
👉 The History of Knowledge in Ireland: Where do we Stand Today? #CFP closes 22 Jan 2026 #MedHums #Ireland