We are delighted to welcome Brown as the Consortium's newest member.
Consortium NEH Fellow Chelsea Schields explores the legacies of colonialism in Caribbean electrical systems.
Consortium NEH Fellow Catherine Mas uncovers the gender history and cultural history of early primatology.
In Game Changer (2017), Rayvon Fouché argued that modern sports have been radically transformed by scientific and technological advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine. Indeed, from elite professionals to recreational “weekend warriors,” sports technologies can make the difference between victory and defeat, safety and injury, participation and exclusion. Moreover, athletes regularly engage in “user innovation” (von Hippel, 2006) to develop advanced technologies for their own benefit.
The Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that our next six-week course, A History of Surgery, will meet Wednesdays, 5:00-6:00 pm, May 1-June 5. The course will be team-taught by the Program’s faculty.
How did lab animals become "sentient drug factories" with significant influence over the history of health and medicine in China? Read about Peter Braden's research examining the multispecies history of science in modern China.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s HADES (Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources) offers advertisements from health sciences journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, hospital management, laboratory management, and the allied health sciences from 1923 to 2007.
Consortium Fellow Leo Chu examines the tensions between development and sustainability in Taiwan's Green Revolution.
The Consortium is delighted to welcome McGill University as a member.
The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2024-25 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.
