The concept of madness presents a challenge. What sorts of perceived deviant behavior indicated that a person was mad? How have societies understood the assumed underlying conditions that caused that behavior? How have societies responded to — tried to control or treat or help or ostracize — those thought to be mad? This course will examine some of the ways past societies identified, explained, and reacted to behavior they considered deviant and evidence of madness.
Judith Kaplan has started a blog about her NSF-funded project at the Consortium. She is producing a comprehensive history of modern linguistics while simultaneously exploring the ways in which scientific disciplines are shaped and negotiated over time.
Apply by August 25 for a NYAM Fellowship.
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow Bethany Johnson explores the social legacies of the 1918 influenza epidemic in Philadelphia.
Propose a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion at one of the Consortium's working groups.
Join an online working group for exciting monthly discussions on specialized topics in history of science, technology and medicine.
The Consortium invites proposals for its next institutional host, which would place it at the center of a vibrant community including leading and emerging scholars from around the world.
The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10,000 to support research in the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine.
The research project “Socialist Medicine: an Alternative Global Health History”, funded by the ERC Starting Grant SOCMED, invites us to rethink the emergence of global health in the 20th century. The project aims to broaden the scope of global health history by redirecting the focus of research in terms of place, people, and institutions to the socialist world. Demarcated as a fluctuating constellation of Eastern European, Asian, Latin American and African countries connected through political ideology, expert networks, economic development, aid, and military interventions, the project centres socialist countries in the Cold War.
