Dr. Richard Del Rio will present “The Drug Business in Late Nineteenth Century America,” as part of our Spring 2026 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology on 3/12 at 3pm. hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/c...
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine & Medical Humanities to begin 7/1/2026. For more info & to apply: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j... Deadline to apply is April 5th.
Join this hybrid lecture happening NOW: David S. Jones of Harvard University presents the 30th Hideyo Noguchi Lecture. To join, visit hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/3...
On March 5th at 4pm, David Jones of Harvard University will present the 30th Hideyo Noguchi Lecture. For more information about in person or virtual attendance and to RSVP, visit hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/3...
Julia Cummiskey will be presenting at the Brown Dept of History Workshop "Medical Technology: Science, Medicine, Healing and Global Health in African History" on 2/27-28. For more information, visit events.brown.edu/history/even...
On March 5th at 4pm, David Jones of Harvard University will present the 30th Hideyo Noguchi Lecture. For more information about in person or virtual attendance and to RSVP, visit hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/3...
Dr. Nathaniel Comfort of JHU will present “Not Boring People: James Watson Finds the Limits of His Own Reputation,” as part of our Spring 2026 Colloquium presented by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology on 2/5 at 3pm. hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/c...
We are very excited to launch our new interactive web series - Epidemic//Endemic cohosted by Alexandre White & Marian Robbins. To view our intro video and submit questions for our next guest Poet & Scholar Antoinette Cooper, visit hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/epidemic-end...
Join us for our ongoing speaker series by the Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology!
A hearty congratulations to Julie Lemmon, our newest graduate of the Online Program in the History of Medicine MA! Her thesis is entitled "Dual Missions: The Army Medical Museum as Maker of Medical Knowledge and Site of Memory."
Graduate students in Dr. Mary Fissell's course on Material Histories of Science, Medicine, and Technology practice bandaging on each other, using examples from classical antiquity and a 19th century textbook.
The image shows the London Board of Health search the city for cholera in 1832... by smell!! Over 8 weeks, "Introduction to History of Medicine" will explore some of the early modes of data collection used for public health surveillance and interventions. tinyurl.org/jhophom
Register now for Term 3 courses (1/20-3/16) in the JHU Online Program in the History of Medicine - Deadline: January 7th! For frequently asked questions, visit hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/wp-content/u...
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The Institute of the History of Medicine is closed for the holiday season and will reopen on January 5th. Happy Holidays!
The remains of a temple dedicated to Asclepius on the Greek island Kos — the birthplace of Hippocrates, the father of Western rational medicine. Learn forms of healing like these in our Term 3 course on the history of medicine from classical antiquity to the early middle ages. tinyurl.com/jhophom
What is a day in the life of an ABD graduate student? If you are Leigh Alon, pursuing her MD/PhD in History of Medicine, then you bump into your department director in Harvard's Countway Library Archives in late November. Photo by Jeremy Greene.
Final reminder that Online Program in the History of Medicine MA or Post-Baccalaureate Certificate applications are due by 11:59PM EST on 12/15? For more information visit
TOMORROW: Have questions about the Online Program in the History of Medicine MA or Post-Baccalaureate Certificate applications due 12/15? Join us for a virtual open house on 12/9 at 2pm EST for a chance to ask the program director! hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/o...
Have questions about the Online Program in the History of Medicine MA or Post-Baccalaureate Certificate applications due 12/15? Join us for a virtual open house on 12/9 at 2pm EST for a chance to ask the program director! hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/o...
Have questions about the Online Program in the History of Medicine MA or Post-Baccalaureate Certificate applications due 12/15? Join us for a virtual open house on 12/9 at 2pm EST for a chance to ask the program director! hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/o...
Dr. Genie Yoo of the University at Buffalo will present “Translating for this Life and the Next: Vernacularization, Aphrodisiacs, and Regimes of Value in Early Modern Ambon,” as part of our Fall 2025 HSMT Colloquium on 12/4 at 3pm. hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/c...
Mary Fissell visited the University of Rochester to give Health Humanities & Bioethics Grand
Rounds and a George Washington Corner lecture (co-sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology) and caught up with History of Medicine alum Alex Parry and former CMHSM & OPHOM postdoc Christy Slobogin!
Visiting Scholar Dr. Kudus Adebayo will present “When the Caregiver is the Sick Person: Hospital-Based Informal Caregiving and Health Systems in Nigeria" on Nov. 17th at 6pm in Gilman 50 and via zoom webinar.
For more info and to register, visit hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/dr-kudus-ade...
Register for special event - Power, Privilege, and Public Health in the United States book talk on 11/18 at 6pm: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/b...
The first 30 JHU students to register will receive a free copy of the edited volume including a chapter from our own Graham Mooney!
A hearty HUZZAH to History of Medicine Online Program alumni Paul Child on his new book based on his MA thesis - The Dean Disordered: Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine published by University of Virginia Press! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10133/
In the Work of Healing this week, we’re talking about medical instruments, including the spirometer, shown here in an 1846 image.
For more information on our online program, visit tinyurl.com/jhophom
Inoculation to prevent smallpox was widely known in Africa and Asia; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu brought the practice to England. We’ll be talking about this precursor to vaccination in The Work of Healing this week.
For more information on our online program, visit tinyurl.com/jhophom
This week in The Work of Healing we’re talking about pulse-taking, which has been emblematic of Western medicine for centuries, as in the 17th century Dutch painting.
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This lovely 19th century watercolor depicts Roman surgical tools, the subject of our discussion in The Work of Healing this week.
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On Thursday, September 25th at 3pm, Dominique Tobbell will present to the Class of 1973 Nursing History Lectureship, co-sponsored by the HSMT Fall 2025 colloquia series. Registration is required for this hybrid event. events.jhu.edu/form/class-o...
