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The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1880–1910

The history of how medical training came to dematerialize the human body offers lessons for how we understand health and the body today
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University of Oklahoma Collections Added to Consortium Search Hub

Listings for more than 61,000 published works from the University's History of Science Collections are now included in the Consortium's search hub.
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December 2019 Newsletter

Read about the Consortium's newest member, news about fellows and fellowships, working groups, and the collections of member institutions.

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Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2020-2021 Short-term, Dissertation, and Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Deadline for applications is March 1, 2020
RAC Opens Record Group 3 of the Records of the China Medical Board

The collection consists of 24 cubic feet of materials, including grant records, board minutes, correspondence, reports and publications
Jewish Midwives and Female Agency in Early Modern Europe

Bridging historical subfields to bring greater insight into the formation and flow of medical knowledge and authority
Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles

How African Americans mobilized eugenics and racial science to challenge scientific racism
CFP: Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science

Submissions for this two-day conference are due February 3, 2020.
Hope and Human Defect in Progressive America

Finding the role of the family in the rise of eugenic institutions
Homo-Musicus: The Early Modern Sciences of the Human Body

Early modern philosophers from across western Europe found in music tools to connect the physical and even mechanical processes of the body with the more abstract phenomena of thought, cognition, health, and pleasure.
Wellcome Collection Makes Papers of the UK Health Education Council and Health Education Authority Available for Research

A remarkable archive that richly documents British health promotion campaigns in the late twentieth century is now available for researchers at Wellcome Collection.

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February 20, 2020

Alain Touwaide

Historia Plantarum

The Huntington

February 20, 2020

James R. Akerman

Time, Travel, and Mapping the Landscapes of War

Newberry Library
February 20, 2020

David Richeson

Geometric Constructions using a Compass and Marked Straightedge

Villanova University
February 21, 2020

Stephen Casper

The Vernacular Economy of Disease: Trauma, Concussion, and Dementia in Modern American Culture, 1900-2012

Yale University
February 24, 2020

Wendy Simonds

Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization

University of Pennsylvania
February 24, 2020

Lauren Kassell

Inscribed, Coded, Archived: Lessons from the Casebooks Digital Edition

Yale University
February 26, 2020

Research Seminar – February

University of Toronto
February 26, 2020

Lisa Ruth Rand

Neocolonial Space: Orbital Allocation in the Age of the New International Economic Order, 1971–1979

Science History Institute
February 27, 2020

11th Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night

New York Academy of Medicine
February 27, 2020

Bess Williamson

Accessible America: A History of Disability & Design

Hagley Museum and Library

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