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American Association for the History of Medicine
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The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. Celebrating our centennial, 1925-2025! #histmed
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Don't forget today's History of Medicine week event at 3 CT/4 ET - "Teaching as the University Burns: Practical Tips." Remember that this event is for AAHM members only. Registration links were emailed, but if you missed it, email Secretary Sarah H-C or Ed & Outreach Chair Scottie Buehler! #histmed
History of Medicine Week events schedule, October 6-10. Five events listed: Monday - Communicating Beyond the Academy panel and AIDS talk; Tuesday - Federal Regulations podcast and Graduate Degree workshop; Wednesday - Teaching tips session; Thursday - Immigration and Health discussion; Friday - Trans & Intersex Health talk. Visit histmed.org/history-of-medicine-week for details
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Starting today! Join us at 1 pm ET/12 pm CT for the first event of History of Medicine week! Registration links are in your email. Misplaced it? Didn't get it? Email us! histmed.org/history-of-m... #HistMedWeek #histmed
"History of Medicine Week events schedule, October 6-10. Five events listed: Monday - Communicating Beyond the Academy panel and AIDS talk; Tuesday - Federal Regulations podcast and Graduate Degree workshop; Wednesday - Teaching tips session; Thursday - Immigration and Health discussion; Friday - Trans & Intersex Health talk. Visit histmed.org/history-of-medicine-week for details."Retry
October 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Are you ready for History of Medicine week? Join us October 6-10 for a week of conversations & community building for anyone interested in the history of medicine. And there's more - check our website for other events happening online and around the country! #histmed histmed.org/history-of-m...
A promotional flyer for History of Medicine Week Events, October 6-10th. The flyer has a light gray background with dark text and red highlighting for emphasis. It displays five event boxes: Monday, 11 ET/12 CT: "Communicating Beyond the Academy: Historians, the Media, and the Public" with a bonus event at 9 ET/10 CT titled "Faith, Hope, and Science in the Time of AIDS - A Talk by Dr. Catherine Burns" hosted by the University of Nebraska. Tuesday: "Perspectives on Science" podcast release about "Federal Regulations: Progressive Era and Beyond" with hashtag #histdrugregs, plus a bonus at 3 ET/2 CT called "Surviving the Graduate Degree." Wednesday, 2 ET/3 CT: "Teaching as the University Burns: Practical Tips" with a note to check AAHM email for the link. Thursday, 1 ET/2 CT: "Medicine Crossing Borders: Immigration and Health." Friday, 2 ET/3 CT: "Trans & Intersex Health From Past to Future" with a note to check AAHM email for the link. At the bottom, italicized text states "Click on titles for registration links. For details and updates visit the website." The website URL www.histmed.org/history-of-medicine-week/ appears at the bottom.
September 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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The Committee on Student Affairs is hosting Virtual Co-working Hours, held Fridays between 3-5 ET on Zoom. Whether you're working on seminar papers, dissertation chapters, or abstracts, join the Student Affairs Committee on Zoom for some camaraderie in writing! #histmed histmed.org/committee-on...
AAHM Virtual Coworking Hours flyer featuring a spiral-bound notepad design. The main text reads "AAHM Virtual Coworking Hours" with an illustration of hands writing. The flyer advertises weekly virtual writing accountability sessions on Fridays beginning 9/12 from 3-6 p.m. Eastern on Zoom at http://bit.ly/3VVWBT. It invites AAHM members seeking camaraderie while working on academic projects like seminar papers, dissertations, applications, abstracts, or books-in-progress. The sessions include goal setting, muted timed work periods, and end-of-session check-ins for reflection. Contact information shows aahmstudents.slack.com and https://histmed.org/committee-on-student-affairs/. The design uses blue and cream colors with notebook paper styling and small clips along the top edge.
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The Miller Lifetime Achievement Award honors a retired scholar with a distinguished record of scholarly contributions to the field of the history of medicine. This year, our honoree was Jacqueline H. Wolf, author of three books & numerous articles on the history of women's health. Congrats, Jackie!
May 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The Welch Medal honors outstanding scholarly work in the history of medicine. Out of a truly impressive shortlist, Elizabeth A. O'Brien won the Welch Medal for her book "Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940," published by @uncpress.bsky.social. 🗃️
May 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The George Rosen Prize honors a significant contribution to the history of public health or the history of social medicine. This year's honoree was @nursingclio.bsky.social for their "critical service to the profession and to humanity in the present political climate." 🗃️
May 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The Pressman-Burroughs Career Development award aids scholars in transforming their 20th c history of medicine work into a first book. This year's recipient is Marissa Nichols for her project, The Backbone of Rural Health: Nursing and Indigenous Healing in Oaxaca. We can't wait to read!
May 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The Estes Prize is awarded for the best published paper in the history of pharmacology. This year's award went to Michael Stanley-Baker of Nanyang Technological University for his essay, “Mapping the Bencao: Laoguanshan at the Far End of the Yellow River Corridor,”
Asian Medicine 18 (2024): 260-303.
May 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The Shryock Medal goes to the best histmed essay by a history grad student. Emma Wathen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, won the Shryock Medal for her oustanding essay, “These ‘Children Won’t Become Women’: Depo-Provera, Intellectual Disability, and the Indian Health Service." Congrats, Emma!
May 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The honorable mention for the Shryock Medal went to Jingwen Li of Princeton University for her essay, “’Glasses He Made Sent Dr. Rakusen into Court’: Disputing Vision Diagnosis in 1920s Global Shanghai." Great job, Jingwen!
May 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Lucy Zheng from Duke University School of Medicine received an honorable mention for the Osler Medal with her essay, "Everyone Wants Our Cotton Pickers": Forced Labor, Unwilling Sterilization, and African American Mental Health at the Goldsboro State Hospital, 1910-1955. Congrats, Lucy!
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May 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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This week, we honor our 2025 award winners! Zoe Kieu Bui Hahn from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine earned the Osler Medal for her exceptional essay, "She Doesn't Understand, She's Afraid, I Don't Think She Cares": The Irrigation Smear from 1962 - 1969." Congratulations! 🗃️
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May 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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This slide from Ilana Löwy’s Garrison lecture resonates in the history of medicine, but also across all historical disciplines. #aahm2025
May 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The centennial Garrison Lecture, offered by scholar Ilana Löwy, entitled “What is a Diagnosis? A Tribute to Ludwig Fleck and Charles Rosenberg.” #aahm2025
May 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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If you're here with us in Boston for #aahm2025, you'd better be planning to join us at the Garrison reception after Ilana Löwy's lecture, because it's time to ✨ celebrate✨ AAHM's 100th birthday! 🍾 🥂 🥳
a green and gold image with birthday hats. in the center is the AAHM logo. In the logo, the muse Clio is wearing a birthday hat and holding a birthday cake. the text says Happy Birthday, We're celebrating our 100th birthday at our Annual Meeting in Boston!
May 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Happening tonight, starting at 6 pm est in the Grand Ballroom! There's still time to register for the livestreamed event to join us from afar. Register here: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Important roundtable on how we as historians of medicine can find ways to “do less harm.” Former prez Barron Lerner points out how our positionality affects our historical work - and how that positionality is especially affected by our current political climate. #aahm2025
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May 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Allan Brandt welcomes us to our opening plenary, telling us that we are in a moment of crisis, making AAHM even more vital - we will need each other! #AAHM2025
An older white man stands at the podium in the center of two tables. At the tables are several other panelists, and water bottles and water jugs sit on the tables. In the background on the left is a projector screen with a black logo of a snake winding up a staff, surrounded by scales of justice.
May 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Allan Brandt welcomes us to the opening plenary addressing the “ahistoric” approach of the federal government, telling us this is a moment of crisis, but that AAHM will be all the more vital as we move forward. We need each other!
A photo of an older white man speaking at a podium on a raised stage. On either side of the podium are two tables where other panelists sit. There are water bottles on the tables. In the background on the left is a large projection screen displaying a logo for AAHM with a snake wound around a staff surrounded by weighting scales.
May 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Happy Annual Meeting, #histmed!! If you're posting about your conference adventures here on 🦋 please tag us or use #aahm2025!
the green and black logo of the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine. In the center is a black snake curling around a staff with a clock at the top. at the bottom is the word Boston with a 100 over the year 2025.
May 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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It's meeting week 🥳 Will you be in Boston? It will be a program to remember!
April 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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It's almost Annual Meeting time, #histmed, and this is a special one -- AAHM's 100th birthday! But if you can't be with us in Boston, you can still join us to celebrate. We'll be livestreaming several exciting program events. Registration info in the thread below 👇 #aahm2025
April 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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For our final panel of the day, Medical Knowledge and Images Around the Globe, chaired by @poxygraduate.bsky.social. Register here: unmc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This image shows a conference schedule section displaying "3:30-4:50 pm V4 PAPER/PRESENTATION" titled "Medical Knowledge and Images around the Globe" chaired by Kristin Brig-Ortiz from Washington University in St. Louis. The schedule includes three presentations: 3:30-3:50 pm: "Medical Education and Experimentation: Almshouses and the Production of Knowledge in Antebellum America" by Nicole L. Schroeder from Kean University 3:50-4:10 pm: "Between Aspirin and Chinese herbs: Zhang Xichun 張錫純 and his Transcultural Approach in China during the Early 20th Century" by Wai Chung (Douglas) Cheung from The University of Hong Kong 4:10-4:30 pm: "Portraying Perceptions: Visual Imagery of Medicine in Late Qing Pictorials, 1872-1912" by Dizhen Wu from SOAS, University of London The final time slot 4:30-4:50 pm is designated for "Q&A with V4". Each presenter's email address is included, and the information is presented in a table format with time slots in the leftmost column.
March 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Up next, a roundtable: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, chaired by @cethompson.bsky.social & featuring @disabilitystor1.bsky.social, @ashshalvey.bsky.social, @clairedclark.bsky.social, and Michaela Clark. Join us! Register here: unmc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This image shows a conference schedule section featuring a roundtable session. The header states "1:30-2:50 pm V3 ROUNDTABLE" titled "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" with Chair Courtney Thompson from Mississippi State University (email provided). The schedule shows panelists from 1:30-2:20 pm including Dr. Aisling Shalvey (Maynooth University), Aparna Nair (University of Toronto Scarborough), Claire D. Clark (University of Kentucky), and Michaela Clark (University of Manchester), all with their email addresses. The final time slot 2:20-2:50 pm is designated for "Q&A with V3". The layout is presented in a table format with time slots in the leftmost column.
March 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM