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.
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University in Durham, N.C., is now accepting applications for their 2024-2025 research travel grant program.
More information here: https://duke.is/rltg-2024
Research travel grants of up to $1500 are offered by the following Centers and research areas:
The Program in the History of Medicine at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in partnership with The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, announces a search for one post-doctoral fellow for a two-year appointment in the Program in the History of Medicine.
The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Science History Institute is now accepting applications for our 2024–2025 fellowships. Scholars from any field whose research would benefit from the use of their collections are invited to apply for one of their programs by January 15, 2024.
The Institute offers dissertation, distinguished, short-term, and postdoctoral fellowships, including their new National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) postdoctoral fellowship.
