Emma Broder examines controversies about psychological causes of 20th-century outbreaks now linked to chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID, and uncovers new opportunities for research in the history of medicine.

Tanya Sheehan uses the collections of the NY Academy of Medicine and the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University to explore the history of artistic depictions of racial inequities in medical care.

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

Matteo Bortolini uses his research for a biography of the anthropologist Clifford Geertz to explore theoretical questions about the historical sociology of ideas, intellectuals, and the social sciences.

Alfredo Escudero analyzes colonial Spanish capture and systematization of indigenous knowledge across the central and Southern Andes.

Greenfield Fellow Al Coppola examines what annotations tell us about the use of eighteenth-century microscopy texts held in Consortium collections.

The grant-in-aid program provides grants of up to $2,500 and applications are due April 15.

The Consortium is delighted to welcome the University of Pittsburgh as a new member.

Apply by May 1 for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.

The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is now accepting applications for two fellowship opportunities to research its extensive collections. The deadline for submissions is midnight, Sunday, April 27.
Heniochus chrysostomus
Heniochus chrysostomus, Julius bifer, from The Zoology of Captain Beechey’s Voyage, 1839. Image courtesy of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.