Adam Biggs
@adambiggsphd.bsky.social
Historian of race, civil rights, and medicine. Assistant Professor in the Dept of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. #RacialJusticeLab
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Y’all! My book is available for pre order now from @uncpress.bsky.social So excited! uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press
There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Cro...
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April 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Y’all! My book is available for pre order now from @uncpress.bsky.social So excited! uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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A bit late announcing it, but delighted to say the project I worked on @leopoldina.org funded by @maxplanck.de is now available online! The database of the victims of biomedical research under National Socialism is open access, including biographies ns-medical-victims.org/mpg-project
Victims of Biomedical Research under National Socialism
ns-medical-victims.org
June 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A bit late announcing it, but delighted to say the project I worked on @leopoldina.org funded by @maxplanck.de is now available online! The database of the victims of biomedical research under National Socialism is open access, including biographies ns-medical-victims.org/mpg-project
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I wrote this recently as part of the new Emergency Response series at @nursingclio.bsky.social being edited by my friend and colleague @cethompson.bsky.social Read more here: nursingclio.org/2025/05/21/i...
May 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I wrote this recently as part of the new Emergency Response series at @nursingclio.bsky.social being edited by my friend and colleague @cethompson.bsky.social Read more here: nursingclio.org/2025/05/21/i...
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Graduate students: looking to hone your writing skills? Apply by April 21 to be an #AHAPerspectives summer columnist! Columnists will write about a theme of their choosing in two related columns. Columnists will receive a 1-year AHA membership and honorarium. 🗃️
Want to Write for the AHA?: Apply to Become a Perspectives Summer Columnist
Submit your application by Sunday, April 21!
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April 19, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Graduate students: looking to hone your writing skills? Apply by April 21 to be an #AHAPerspectives summer columnist! Columnists will write about a theme of their choosing in two related columns. Columnists will receive a 1-year AHA membership and honorarium. 🗃️
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🚨 POSTDOC in #histmed 3+ years!🚨
📍 in beautiful Zürich
🌾 open field
✉️ only cover letter and CV to apply
💰 generous Swiss salary
👥 with wonderful colleagues @fcondrau.bsky.social Yvan Prkachin
(don't be put off by the "60-80%", that's just the Swiss way of calculating salary)
📍 in beautiful Zürich
🌾 open field
✉️ only cover letter and CV to apply
💰 generous Swiss salary
👥 with wonderful colleagues @fcondrau.bsky.social Yvan Prkachin
(don't be put off by the "60-80%", that's just the Swiss way of calculating salary)
Postdoc in #histmed at @UZH_en - 3 years initially, open search, any topic. Check us out and talk to me or
#YvanPrkachin via mail if interested. Details:
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
#YvanPrkachin via mail if interested. Details:
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
April 20, 2024 at 5:25 AM
🚨 POSTDOC in #histmed 3+ years!🚨
📍 in beautiful Zürich
🌾 open field
✉️ only cover letter and CV to apply
💰 generous Swiss salary
👥 with wonderful colleagues @fcondrau.bsky.social Yvan Prkachin
(don't be put off by the "60-80%", that's just the Swiss way of calculating salary)
📍 in beautiful Zürich
🌾 open field
✉️ only cover letter and CV to apply
💰 generous Swiss salary
👥 with wonderful colleagues @fcondrau.bsky.social Yvan Prkachin
(don't be put off by the "60-80%", that's just the Swiss way of calculating salary)
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Postdoc in #histmed at @UZH_en - 3 years initially, open search, any topic. Check us out and talk to me or
#YvanPrkachin via mail if interested. Details:
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
#YvanPrkachin via mail if interested. Details:
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
April 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Postdoc in #histmed at @UZH_en - 3 years initially, open search, any topic. Check us out and talk to me or
#YvanPrkachin via mail if interested. Details:
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
#YvanPrkachin via mail if interested. Details:
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
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Grateful for the opportunity to contribute this short reflection on the place of emotions in the history of science and medicine classroom to this special section of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences on pedagogy.
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?
In The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Sara Ahmed argues that Enlightenment and modernity are not just about reason’s triumph over emotion but also about the ability to have the “appropriate” emotions (...
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March 12, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Grateful for the opportunity to contribute this short reflection on the place of emotions in the history of science and medicine classroom to this special section of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences on pedagogy.
December 13, 2023 at 12:51 AM
50 hires in African American studies… 🤯
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December 13, 2023 at 12:49 AM
50 hires in African American studies… 🤯
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My book is available at a 30% discount from UNC Press! @uncpress.bsky.social Discount code 01UNCP30
October 12, 2023 at 3:00 PM
My book is available at a 30% discount from UNC Press! @uncpress.bsky.social Discount code 01UNCP30
It’s a great time to donate to the AAHM. Check out Barron’s presidential message… histmed.org/newsletters/...
September 24, 2023 at 8:24 PM
It’s a great time to donate to the AAHM. Check out Barron’s presidential message… histmed.org/newsletters/...
Katherine Carroll will be sharing her work at RPI tomorrow connecting the architectural design of medical schools with the racial politics of “modernizing” medicine!
September 19, 2023 at 10:19 PM
Katherine Carroll will be sharing her work at RPI tomorrow connecting the architectural design of medical schools with the racial politics of “modernizing” medicine!