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Aristotle's Masterpiece: Early Modern Sex Ed

Follow along with Professor Mary Fissell as she discusses her research on a popular late 17th century English sex and midwifery manual.
News and Notes

Propose a New Working Group

The Consortium invites proposals for new online working groups focusing on specialized topics in the history of science, technology or medicine.
News and Notes

Senior & Junior Postdocs, Dissertation Fellowships for 2021-22

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.

News and Notes

CFA: Residential Summer Institute at The Huntington

Applications are open for "Anthroforming the Landscape: A Historical View from Asia"
July 5-9, 2021
New Tenure-Track Position in History of Medicine

The Department of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine invites applications for tenure-track faculty at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.
CFP: Dossier on Science, Knowledge, and Society in Latin America

Deadline for submissions is January 18, 2021
Caltech Finding Aids added to Search Hub

Finding aids for the collections of the California Institute of Technology are now included in the Cross-Institutional Search Hub.
Fall 2020 Working Groups

The Consortium's working groups bring together leading and emerging scholars from around the world.
Explore Consortium Perspectives

Our multimedia library provides discussions with leading scholars, interviews with recent authors, and archival highlights from renowned history of science collections.
A New Woman: Yamei Kin’s Contributions to Medicine and Women’s Rights in China and U.S., 1864-1934

Research on the first Chinese woman to obtain a medical degree in the U.S. leads to some valuable archival discoveries on women in the medical professions in Asia.
Call for Papers: FHNN Virtual Conference

Submit an abstract by July 1, 2020 for Silences in the LAMS: Digital Surrogacy in the Time of Pandemic

Upcoming Events

October 20, 2020
Sonia Wigh, University of Exeter
Sexual Diseases and Medicine in Early Modern South Asia
Wellcome Collection
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 2:00 pm EDT
History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine
October 20, 2020
Guillaume Lachenal, Thomas Dodman
A Medical Disaster and its Aftermaths: The Quest for Sleeping Sickness Eradication in Colonial Africa
Columbia University
October 20, 2020
Sonia Wigh
Sexual Diseases and Medicine in Early Modern South Asia
Wellcome Collection
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 6:00 pm EDT
Technology
October 21, 2020
Dr. Davis Jones and Dr. Nancy Oriol
Historical Perspectives on Race and Disease
Harvard University
October 21, 2020
Alexandra Hui
Tests and Testing: The Case of Hearing and the Making of Modern Aurality in the Long Twentieth Century
American Institute of Physics
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 3:00 pm EDT
Sciences of the Senses
October 21, 2020
Samuel K. Roberts
Persistent Plagues: Race, Space, and Epidemiological Thinking in Illicit Drug Use Research, 1950-1980
Columbia University
Thursday, October 22, 2020 2:00 pm EDT
History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Latin America

Skunk, as illustrated by John James Audubon, in his Viviparous quadrupeds of North America, 1846-1854. Image courtesy of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.