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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
In this podcast, Melanie Kiechle answers questions about her book on urban environments, public health, and senses of smell in the nineteenth century.
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Sickness and the City
How have diseases and urban development interacted in history and contemporary societies? Watch video presentations by leading scholars, read other expert commentaries, and add your perspective in our discussion forum.
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Shopping for Health: Medicine and Markets in America
How has medical consumerism contributed to the challenges of our current healthcare system, including the opioid epidemic? Watch video presentations by leading historians, read other scholars' expert commentaries, and add your perspective in our discussion forum.
Upcoming Events
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February 19, 2019
Alex Mazzaferro
The Innovation Prohibition and the New Science of Politics in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Science History Institute
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February 19, 2019
Kim TallBear
Molecular Death, Desire, and Redface Reincarnation: Indigenous Appropriations in the USA and Canada
Precision Medicine & Society, the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University's Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality (IRWGS); Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER); the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
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February 21, 2019
Kimberly TallBear (University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada)
Harvard University History of Science Seminars: Kimberly TallBear
Harvard University
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February 21, 2019
Harold Edwards
Are Complex Numbers as Important as Modern Mathematics Makes Them?
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February 22, 2019
Vanessa Agard-Jones, Lisa Gitelman, Orit Halpern, Julie Livingston, Joseph Masco, Tiago Saraiva
Year Zero: More-Than-Human-Worlding After 1945
New York University Abu Dhabi Institute
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February 23, 2019
Informational Images and the Legacy of Humanism: an Interdisciplinary Workshop
University of Pennsylvania
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February 25, 2019
Daniel Francis Zizzamia
STS Circle at Harvard
Harvard University
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February 25, 2019
Alondra Nelson
History of Science and Medicine Colloquia: Alondra Nelson
Yale University
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February 26, 2019
Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
Creative Construction: The Integral Importance of Froth, Fraud and Fear in Emerging Technologies
Dexel University
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February 26, 2019
Monique A. Guishard, Susan M. Reverby, Moderated by Aletha Maybank
Could Tuskegee Happen Today
New York Academy of Medicine
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