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Christine Slobogin
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Art historian of medicine
Asst Prof, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ Uni of Rochester
plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor
Book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/
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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · Jun 24
It's publication day!!

Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.
Happy author (me) holding a bunch of hardcover copies of _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_. I am a white blonde woman with short hair wearing a white top and in an office with bookshelves visible in the background. Holding the hardcover version of _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_ up in front of two framed posters. The cover of the book shows a face being surgically reconstructed, in six steps, drawn with pencil on beige paper. The title (in caps) is backed by a dark red (the full title is Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain). The back of the book, held in front of the same two framed posters. The text isn't super visible, but it includes the blurb of the book from the publisher's website, and the bio of the author, Christine Slobogin, as well as the press's logo and the barcode. The beige text box is outlined in dark red. The dedication page of the book reads "For my dad"
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cobioethics.bsky.social
Join the next NCHED webinar: “Case Studies in Dental Research Ethics” with Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross
🗓️ Nov 11 | 🕐 11-12 MT via Zoom Earn 1 ADA CERP CE credit
Register: urmc.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DentalEthics #Bioethics #NCHED @urochestersmd @mattwynia #dentalethics
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
slobogin.bsky.social
Looking forward to our next event for the National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry event!

Next Tuesday, Lainie Ross will be speaking on "Case Studies in Dental Research Ethics."

See below flyer for more information!
Case Studies in Dental Research Ethics Lainie Ross MD, PhD November 11 2025 via ZOOM 1 - 2 pm EST To register: https://urmc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9MfL2P0dTRSH0bkINwE2EQ#/registration LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. To familiarize oneself with the history of human subjects protections and compare a medical and dental case study. 2. To examine the ethical issues raised by fluoride toothpaste studies. 3. To examine the ethical and equity issues raised by community water fluoridation programs.
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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slobogin.bsky.social
Episode 3 of this season of "In the Same Vein" is out! Both my co-host and our interviewee were fabulous here - med student Priya Mandava and physician-author Jay Baruch.

We talk about Dr. Baruch's 2022 book "Tornado of Life" - and so much more!

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S2 Ep3: On Narrative and Emergency Medicine with Jay Baruch, MD
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November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
slobogin.bsky.social
Episode 3 of this season of "In the Same Vein" is out! Both my co-host and our interviewee were fabulous here - med student Priya Mandava and physician-author Jay Baruch.

We talk about Dr. Baruch's 2022 book "Tornado of Life" - and so much more!

open.spotify.com/episode/50mx...
S2 Ep3: On Narrative and Emergency Medicine with Jay Baruch, MD
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November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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cethompson.bsky.social
Had an absolutely fantastic visit at Rochester! Many, many thanks to @slobogin.bsky.social for the invitation, and to the entire community for being so welcoming. Feeling invigorated from the lively discussions. What a wonderful program filled with brilliant people!
A picture of a woman giving a talk from behind a podium. The room is a library with wood paneling, a fireplace, books, and a coffered ceiling. The slides for the talk can also be seen.
October 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:

1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
slobogin.bsky.social
THIS WEEK!

@cethompson.bsky.social is going to be speaking to us about emotions, ethics, and the history of medicine - on both Wednesday evening and Thursday afternoon.

Join us either in person or online!
slobogin.bsky.social Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · Oct 17
We've got @cethompson.bsky.social coming to Rochester to give *two* exciting talks this month
On Oct 29, she'll speak on her current project, "A Calculus of Compassion"
On Oct 30, for our health hums & bioethics grand rounds, she'll give a talk titled "Becoming an Ethical Historian"
Looking forward!
George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine Wednesday, October 29 A Calculus of Compassion: Medicine, Emotion, and Identity in Nineteenth-century America 5:30 p.m. Lecture 6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering Rochester Academy of Medicine 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY Healthcare access and outcomes in the contemporary United States are intimately connected to questions of identity. This presentation examines the historical development of health inequities influenced by the affective component of the doctor–patient relationship, particularly how white, male physicians of the past encountered and reacted to their patients, who were often non-white, female, or of non-normative gender or sexual identity. How did physicians feel about their patients? And how have patient identities— whether age, class, gender, race, disability, or sexuality—inflected this calculus of compassion as it was tallied across time and place? To explore these questions, this talk will discuss emotions in medical history and their implications for current healthcare disparities through a case study of one physician’s life and work in the late nineteenth-century South and West. Courtney E. Thompson is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Mississippi State University, where she also chairs the Medical Humanities Minor program. Her first book is An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-century America (Rutgers University Press, 2021); her most recent publication, co-edited with Dr. Kylie M. Smith, is Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025). Her current book project focuses on the influence of identity and emotion on the doctor/patient relationship in nineteenth-century America. Register here: https://www.raom.org/event-6358851 For more information or to become a Corner Society member, please contact Christine Slobogin, PhD, at Christine_Slobogin@URMC.Rochester.edu HEALTH HUMANITIES GRAND ROUNDS FALL 2025 Courtney E. Thompson, PhD Associate Professor, Mississippi State University Becoming an Ethical Historian: Lessons from and for the History of Medicine Thursday, October 30th, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET In-person / 1-9675 Ryan Case Method Room Physicians and other health professionals are expected to be conversant with the principles of bioethics, but what about historical ethics? This talk will explore the recent attention within the history of medicine to ethical concerns about methodology and best practices for writing about patients and practitioners in the past. What lessons can historians of medicine learn from bioethics, and what can clinicians learn from historians of medicine taking new approaches to ethics around health? This talk explores some lessons from and for the history of medicine for reconsidering approaches to ethical research and practice.
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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slobogin.bsky.social
We've got @cethompson.bsky.social coming to Rochester to give *two* exciting talks this month
On Oct 29, she'll speak on her current project, "A Calculus of Compassion"
On Oct 30, for our health hums & bioethics grand rounds, she'll give a talk titled "Becoming an Ethical Historian"
Looking forward!
George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine Wednesday, October 29 A Calculus of Compassion: Medicine, Emotion, and Identity in Nineteenth-century America 5:30 p.m. Lecture 6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering Rochester Academy of Medicine 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY Healthcare access and outcomes in the contemporary United States are intimately connected to questions of identity. This presentation examines the historical development of health inequities influenced by the affective component of the doctor–patient relationship, particularly how white, male physicians of the past encountered and reacted to their patients, who were often non-white, female, or of non-normative gender or sexual identity. How did physicians feel about their patients? And how have patient identities— whether age, class, gender, race, disability, or sexuality—inflected this calculus of compassion as it was tallied across time and place? To explore these questions, this talk will discuss emotions in medical history and their implications for current healthcare disparities through a case study of one physician’s life and work in the late nineteenth-century South and West. Courtney E. Thompson is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Mississippi State University, where she also chairs the Medical Humanities Minor program. Her first book is An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-century America (Rutgers University Press, 2021); her most recent publication, co-edited with Dr. Kylie M. Smith, is Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025). Her current book project focuses on the influence of identity and emotion on the doctor/patient relationship in nineteenth-century America. Register here: https://www.raom.org/event-6358851 For more information or to become a Corner Society member, please contact Christine Slobogin, PhD, at Christine_Slobogin@URMC.Rochester.edu HEALTH HUMANITIES GRAND ROUNDS FALL 2025 Courtney E. Thompson, PhD Associate Professor, Mississippi State University Becoming an Ethical Historian: Lessons from and for the History of Medicine Thursday, October 30th, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET In-person / 1-9675 Ryan Case Method Room Physicians and other health professionals are expected to be conversant with the principles of bioethics, but what about historical ethics? This talk will explore the recent attention within the history of medicine to ethical concerns about methodology and best practices for writing about patients and practitioners in the past. What lessons can historians of medicine learn from bioethics, and what can clinicians learn from historians of medicine taking new approaches to ethics around health? This talk explores some lessons from and for the history of medicine for reconsidering approaches to ethical research and practice.
October 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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In this video blog, Christine Slobogin tells us about her book, Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper, which is available to read for free online. Watch the blog > buff.ly/kWAZMzN #openaccess #URPress @slobogin.bsky.social
Illustrating Recovery: The Making of Plastic Surgery’s History
Christine Slobogin shares insights into her book and explores the connection between plastic surgery and art during the Second World War.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
slobogin.bsky.social
We've got @cethompson.bsky.social coming to Rochester to give *two* exciting talks this month
On Oct 29, she'll speak on her current project, "A Calculus of Compassion"
On Oct 30, for our health hums & bioethics grand rounds, she'll give a talk titled "Becoming an Ethical Historian"
Looking forward!
George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine Wednesday, October 29 A Calculus of Compassion: Medicine, Emotion, and Identity in Nineteenth-century America 5:30 p.m. Lecture 6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering Rochester Academy of Medicine 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY Healthcare access and outcomes in the contemporary United States are intimately connected to questions of identity. This presentation examines the historical development of health inequities influenced by the affective component of the doctor–patient relationship, particularly how white, male physicians of the past encountered and reacted to their patients, who were often non-white, female, or of non-normative gender or sexual identity. How did physicians feel about their patients? And how have patient identities— whether age, class, gender, race, disability, or sexuality—inflected this calculus of compassion as it was tallied across time and place? To explore these questions, this talk will discuss emotions in medical history and their implications for current healthcare disparities through a case study of one physician’s life and work in the late nineteenth-century South and West. Courtney E. Thompson is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Mississippi State University, where she also chairs the Medical Humanities Minor program. Her first book is An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-century America (Rutgers University Press, 2021); her most recent publication, co-edited with Dr. Kylie M. Smith, is Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025). Her current book project focuses on the influence of identity and emotion on the doctor/patient relationship in nineteenth-century America. Register here: https://www.raom.org/event-6358851 For more information or to become a Corner Society member, please contact Christine Slobogin, PhD, at Christine_Slobogin@URMC.Rochester.edu HEALTH HUMANITIES GRAND ROUNDS FALL 2025 Courtney E. Thompson, PhD Associate Professor, Mississippi State University Becoming an Ethical Historian: Lessons from and for the History of Medicine Thursday, October 30th, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET In-person / 1-9675 Ryan Case Method Room Physicians and other health professionals are expected to be conversant with the principles of bioethics, but what about historical ethics? This talk will explore the recent attention within the history of medicine to ethical concerns about methodology and best practices for writing about patients and practitioners in the past. What lessons can historians of medicine learn from bioethics, and what can clinicians learn from historians of medicine taking new approaches to ethics around health? This talk explores some lessons from and for the history of medicine for reconsidering approaches to ethical research and practice.
October 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Click here to listen to a *phenomenal* interview from Marsha Wittink on med-psych units, patient perspectives, and the health humanities. Co-hosted with our med student and hist med PhD Michael Healey

Second episode of the this season of "In the Same Vein" now live!
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S2 Ep2: On Med-Psych Units with Marsha Wittink, MD, MBE
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October 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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October 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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MW correctly reading the room
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Oct 1
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
slobogin.bsky.social
New season of "In the Same Vein" has launched!!

My wonderful (graduated) master's student Jan and I interview @agnesjuliet.bsky.social about surgical myths and stereotypes & why a historian's perspective is vital in health policy and practice, among other topics!

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S2: On Surgical Stereotypes with Agnes Arnold-Forster, PhD
Podcast Episode · In the Same Vein · 10/01/2025 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
slobogin.bsky.social
TOMORROW!

You can still register for this event taking place on Zoom tomorrow at 1 pm.

Bronwen McVeigh will be speaking about the "toothache blues" as part of our NCHED (Nat'l Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry) series of online events.
September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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renfro.bsky.social
My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️
September 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social
CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
September 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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unirdg-artcol.bsky.social
⭐ Our Curator of Art Collections has contributed three new biographies on women artists for this month's #ODNB update.

Read her Introduction and new entries in the link below! 👇

#ODNB #WomenInArt
oxfordacademic.bsky.social Oxford Academic @oxfordacademic.bsky.social · Sep 18
🌟 This month’s ODNB update celebrates women artists in Britain across 3 centuries!

Discover 9 new biographies, including Isabella Beetham, Laura Alma-Tadema, Anna Airy, and Averil Burleigh.

Explore their stories ➡️ oxford.ly/4mnkfVG

#ODNB #WomenInArt
Isabella Beetham, Laura Alma-Tadema, Anna Airy, and Averil Burleigh
September 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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slobogin.bsky.social
Please join us on September 30 for a *fascinating* talk from historian / musicologist Bronwen McVeigh! (Also a Medical Humanities master's grad from @urochestersmd.bsky.social !)

She'll be discussing the "toothache blues" and different media (including the musical) for public health messaging.

🦷🎶🦷
Rockefellers, Root Canals, and "Race Records": The Toothache Blues and the Story of Dentistry Reform in Interwar Harlem Bronwen McVeigh, PhD September 30, 2025 via Zoom 1 pm EST RSVP: https://rochester.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w4fbd4c2SnuzBVC-xphh6g Dental Professionals can earn 1 ADA CERP Credit.
September 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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helengoodman.bsky.social
Forthcoming events on objects in the history of healthcare #HistMed:
1) 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900' @unibirmingham.bsky.social (5 Dec, free, online. CFP deadline 6 Oct. Organised by @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social): www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Here's the teaser for Season 2 of "In the Same Vein" - the health humanities and bioethics podcast that I co-host with students.

If this sounds like it'll be of interest to you (or your students), make sure that you follow / subscribe so that you don't miss any eps!
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"In the Same Vein" Season 2 Teaser
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September 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
My book-in-progress has a chapter that deals, in part, with eugenic euthanasia and the quest to relieve "social suffering." But until it's out, might I recommend an oldie but a goodie? (by one of my dissertation committee members)
September 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
slobogin.bsky.social
Last week I got to do a fun & cool thing and sign my books that are being sold at the @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social gift shop at the Royal College of Surgeons!
Me (white woman with a blonde bob) sitting at a wooden table with a pen held over the title page of my book _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_. There are two gold-framed paintings behind me, and two more of my books at my side. I (white woman with blonde bob) am sitting smiling in a green long sleeved shirt, jeans, and white tennis shoes at a wooden table in front of two portraits of white men in gold frames. Three copies of my book _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_ sit on the table in front of me.
September 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM