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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Book Launch! / Public Health in the Premodern World
Please come along to our book launch of Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances, edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, published by Oxford University Press. Find the book at this link. Three of its chapters … Continue reading
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Book Preview Talk / Public Health in the Premodern World
“Public Health in the Premodern World” edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is coming out on the 29th with Oxford University Press! The edited volume illustrates the rich history of public health, showing how communities across the … Continue reading
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New Volume: Disability and War in the Late Middle Ages, eds. Ninon Dubourg and Christophe Masson
Ninon Dubourg and Christophe Masson’s edited volume, Disability and War in the Late Middle Ages: Becoming, Surviving, Managing, is out with the ARC Humanities Press. The volume gathers specialists across history, modern medicine, literature, and archeology to bring new considerations … Continue reading
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Kick-off Event: SCARCE Research Project
SCARCE (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850) is a new five-year project at the University of Vienna. It aims to provide a history of today’s stakeholder conflicts by showing how contradictory principles of resource management … Continue reading
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