This working group explores the application of medical history in clinical medicine, health education, medical science, health policy, and global/public health. It aims to create a transdisciplinary conversation that focuses on active engagement. By bringing together scholars, learners, archivists, healthcare professionals, and activists, the working group strengthens existing connections and creates networks committed to translating insights from the history of medicine and health into tangible interventions addressing pressing medical and societal challenges. Recent historical events have provided a new urgency to not only expose historically entrenched structures of health-related disparities, discrimination, and systemic harm, but to work actively towards their dismantling. Building on a long history of engaged scholarship in the history of medicine, the group provides a space for new ways of thinking about medical history as an applied discipline.

 

Conveners
Lisa Haushofer
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Marco Ramos
Carolyn Roberts

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Past Meetings

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Reproductive Justice
 

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Teaching History of Medicine to Future and Current Medical Professionals
 

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Emerging Priorities in Applied Medical History
In this panel discussion, current and former Nursing/MD-PhD students will reflect on their professional trajectories, consider the relationship between health care practice, research, and teaching, and discuss emerging priorities in Applied Medical History.
Confirmed panelists are:
Ravenne Aponte
Sydney Green
Marco Ramos
 

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‘Applied Medical History:’ Taking Stock
In this session, we will look back at scholarship that has been particularly influential to 'Applied Medical History.' In a panel discussion, we will hear from pioneers doing translational social sciences and humanities research as well as activist work in the field of healthcare and health policy. This will be followed by general discussion and questions.
Confirmed panelists are:
Prof. Jacalyn Duffin
Prof. Julie A. Fairman
Prof. Helena B. Hansen
Prof. Beatrix Hoffman
The (optional) readings provided offer snippets of each panelist's voluminous work; we encourage you to explore more of their scholarship on their respective websites.
We look forward to hopefully seeing you there!
 
 

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