News and Notes
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Strange Beauty: Botanical Collection, Preservation, and Display in the 19th Century Tropics
August 14, 2019
A materialist examination of tropical plants gives an understanding of the intersection of art and science at the center of modern ways of using and understanding tropical nature.
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Caltech Special Collections Added to Consortium Search Hub
August 13, 2019
Listings of more than 1,000 rare books on the history of science are now integrated into our multi-institutional catalog.
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Cyberdreams of the Information Age: Machines for Learning in the Cold War United States and the Soviet Union
August 6, 2019
Examining software and psychological models as a front in the Cold War
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Leishmaniases of the New World in a Historical and Global Perspective
July 31, 2019
The history of a tropical disease, often neglected by researchers and policy makers, suggests global connections of disease and healthcare.
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Wellcome Collection Makes Papers of Dr. Joshua Bierer Available for Research
July 31, 2019
The papers of the pioneering psychiatrist are fully cataloged and available for research at the Wellcome Library.
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Faculty position in History of Modern Life Sciences
July 25, 2019
The Department of the History of Science and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University invites applications for the position of tenure-track assistant professor in the history of the modern life s
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CFP: New Working Groups
July 24, 2019
Propose a new online working group to study a specialized topic in the history of science, technology or medicine.
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"The People who Need Us Read Between the Lines": Eugenic Ideology in the Post WWII United States
July 17, 2019
How eugenics became "population genetics," and maintained influence into the late twentieth century
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CFP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine
July 3, 2019
Submissions are due July 15, 2019.
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Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglophone Atlantic
June 27, 2019
Research on the cultural context of the relationship between ideas about climate and race offers new insight into debates over slavery and the development of scientific racism.