News and Notes
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Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2020-2021 Short-term, Dissertation, and Post-Doctoral Fellowships
February 12, 2020
Deadline for applications is March 1, 2020
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RAC Opens Record Group 3 of the Records of the China Medical Board
February 11, 2020
The collection consists of 24 cubic feet of materials, including grant records, board minutes, correspondence, reports and publications
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The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1880–1910
February 7, 2020
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
January 31, 2020
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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Jewish Midwives and Female Agency in Early Modern Europe
January 24, 2020
Bridging historical subfields to bring greater insight into the formation and flow of medical knowledge and authority
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Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles
January 17, 2020
How African Americans mobilized eugenics and racial science to challenge scientific racism
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CFP: Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science
January 9, 2020
Submissions for this two-day conference are due February 3, 2020.
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December 2019 Newsletter
January 7, 2020
Read about the Consortium's newest member, news about fellows and fellowships, working groups, and the collections of member institutions.
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Hope and Human Defect in Progressive America
January 7, 2020
Finding the role of the family in the rise of eugenic institutions
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Homo-Musicus: The Early Modern Sciences of the Human Body
December 17, 2019
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.