Mastodon feed- Untitled April 7, 2026"Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians"Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith bring together historians and scholars to confront one of the most pressing questions in health history: How can we ethically approach stories of medicine and health without perpetuating harm? https://www.chstm.org/perspectives/do-less-harm-ethical-questions-health-historians
- Untitled April 7, 2026The Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health April 17th meeting hosts Briana Brightly, who has shared a chapter from their doctoral dissertation titled "How to Draw the Buddha and Dissect a Corpse: Iconometry and Anatomy in Early-Modern Tibet". #histmed #histstm https://www.chstm.org/group/objects-images-and-spaces-health
- Untitled April 7, 2026The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine is opening proposals for a new working group. The call is for groups that will meet during the 2026-2027 academic year.https://www.chstm.org/news/propose-new-working-group-2026-2027#histmed #histstm
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NEW PUBLICATION: First nations knowledge on health
The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges; the eighth book in the series, by Shawana Andrews, Sandra Eades and Fiona Stanley and edited by Margo Ngawa Neale, focuses on health. First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture … Continue reading
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Warning About Book Club Scams:
Our G. Geltner, sharing a few words of warning about a recent experience with publishing-related scams, which seems to be targeting academics, see: https://guygeltner.net/blog/from-predatory-publishing-to-the-book-club-scam
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Conference Announcement and New Pre-Print: History of Food and Medicine
The Colloquia Ceranea conference will take place in a hybrid format at the University of Łódź, Poland from 7-9 May. The forthcoming symposium will be organized around the following thematic focuses: See the link for more details: https://www.ceraneum.uni.lodz.pl/colloquia-ceranea A study … Continue reading
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PhD Studentships // The Early History of Smallpox and Measles
Two PhD studentships are available for the Wellcome Discovery Project on the history of smallpox and measles at the University of Exeter; One is Classics/Ancient History facing and the other will focus on Arabic texts/Islamic world. For more information on … Continue reading
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