likenessBroader Audiences, Meaningful Engagement
October 7-11, 2024
 
Historians of medicine often express the desire for their work to reach broader audiences; however, popular platforms—be they television, radio, podcasts, corporate or social media—can reach many but touch few. History of Medicine Week is dedicated to exploring the risks, benefits, experiences, and best practices for historians of medicine to make meaningful connections beyond familiar scholarly communities.
 
 
 
 
 
 
likenessHosted by the American Association for the History of Medicine
Education and Outreach Committee
Adam Biggs, Chair
Rennselaer Ploytechnic Institute

 

Jump To: 
Episode 1 - Connecting through Literature, Corporate Media, and the Museum
Episode 2 - Beyond the Annual Meeting & History in Therapeutic Spaces
Episode 3 - The Joys and Perils of Relevant History
Episode 4 - Conversation with Elena Conis – Author of How to Sell a Poison, 2024 Welch Award Recipient

 

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Insights from around the Consortium
The Consortium offers many opportunities to learn more about the history of medicine.
 
Join a related Working Group for monthly discussions:
Applied Medical History
Death and Disease in the Islamicate World
Evolution and Heredity in Brazil
Health and the Urban Environment
Medieval European Medical Manuscripts
Objects, Images and Spaces of Health
Reproductive Health Histories
Women, Gender and Sexuality in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
 
See also work from our fellows:
Susan Brandt, Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830
Emma Broder, The Anatomy of the Epidemic: Contested Illness in Twentieth Century America
Lydia Crafts, “Little Empire”: Medicine, Public Health and Human Experimentation in 20th Century Central America
Cory Gatrall, Race, Racism, and Reproduction in Public Health Nursing, 1900-1940
Jingwen Li, A Phantom History of Phantom Ocular Impairment, 1830-1930
Elizabeth Maher, Building Mechanical Boys: What Autism History Tells us about Constructions of Race, Disability, Gender and Class in the Mid-20th Century United States
 
Nidia Olvera Hernández, Traditional Uses of Mexican Psychoactive Plants. From the Creation of a National Pharmacopeia to Ethnographical Collections 1900-1957
Tanya Sheehan, After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art
Katherine White, Anatomy and the Search for Natural Man
 
See the Consortium search hub to find more.
 

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Exploring the risks, benefits, experiences, and best practices for historians of medicine to make meaningful connections beyond familiar scholarly communities.
 

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