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Southeast Asia and the Beginnings of the Primary Health Paradigm, 1948-1978

Actors in Southeast Asia influenced local Cold War malaria eradication programs as well as the rise of a broader global health paradigm
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US Naval Observatory Joins Consortium

The Consortium is delighted to welcome the United States Naval Observatory as its newest member.
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CFP: Working Groups Papers

Propose a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion at one of the Consortium's working groups.

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Wellcome Collection Makes the DrugScope Collection Available for Research

The collection includes nearly 300 archive boxes of documents related to drugs and drug policy
Citizenship and Gender in the Correspondence of Technoscience Activists

Exploring how the home became a space to express new ecological epistemologies in the late twentieth century
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
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
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.
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

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