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 Study: Black Death burials in Ta\rrega (Catalonia)
There is a new study on the Black Death burials in Ta\rrega (Catalonia) that offers the first genetic analysis of the victims “Uncovering a Medieval Pogrom: Genetic History of a Jewish Community in Catalonia (Spain)” by by Laura Pallarés-Viña, Daniel … Continue reading
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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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NEW PUBLICATIONS // Investigations of Czech Skeletal Remains and Plague Policies in the Low Countries
ARTICLE: An study from investigations of the skeletal remains at Kutná Hora-Sedlec in Czechia. “Influence of early life environment on later life mortality in catastrophic and non-catastrophic medieval skeletal series from Kutná Hora-Sedlec (Czech Republic, 13th–16th century)” by Hana Brzobohatá, … Continue reading
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Publications // Early Medieval Medicine in Context & Annotated bibliography on Byzantine medicine
“Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation” edited by Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, and Lea Olsan. This text is part of York Medieval Press’s series ‘Health and Healing in the Middle Ages’. The edited volume gives new perspectives … Continue reading
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