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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Category Archives: Events
December 2025/ ANZAMEMS Conference: “Possibilities”
Next week several of our team members will be presenting at the annual conference for ANZAMEMS or the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. See the programme here. See below for details of our researchers’ papers, which will be presented across three panels. Presenters include both chief investigators of the ARC-funded Discovery Projecy Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World 1100-1800, and their former and current students. Continue reading
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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August 2024/ Luisa Dallai et al.: “From lab to field, from vertical to horizontal. New approaches to the use of portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) in archaeology”
This year’s Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA2024) takes place in Rome. One of our dear colleagues, Luisa Dallai, will be presenting on the use of portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) in archaeology. Her and her colleagues’ abstract … Continue reading
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Virtual Book Launch: Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World
13 January 2023, 12pm EST/ 6pm CET/ 10.30pm IST/ 4am + 1 AEDT Online, zoom Begin the new year with a virtual book launch for the fourth title in the “Health and Healing in the Middle Ages” series by publishers … Continue reading
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