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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Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World
The ERC project Premodern Healthscaping hosted its final conference ‘Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World’ at the University of Amsterdam on 29-30 September. During this two-day conference, the team members presented the findings of five years of research in … Continue reading
Calling Some Public Health Initiatives “Medieval” is Harmful
The “Middle Ages” have been making the headlines since the recent outbreak of COVID-19 and its presence in at least 29 countries around the globe. As the list of the dead and infected grows worryingly long, observers seem eager to … Continue reading
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Book Review – The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
Written by Claire Weeda Heng, Geraldine. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Every discipline is in many intimate ways intimately connected to its object of study. In pre-modern historical sciences, the question of … Continue reading
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Marking and Badges: Exploring Premodern Schools, Discipline and Communal Health from a Global Perspective
A Report by Claire Weeda In June 2019, I hesitantly fastened my conference badge to my blouse in attendance of the conference ‘The Pursuit of Global Urban History’ in Leicester. How to address global commensurability, the impress of environment and … Continue reading