Bulletin of the History of Medicine

I'm thrilled that my new article has been published in @BHMjournal. It explores how Mao-era China responded to major epizootic/zoonotic diseases. Please find the article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

The Top 20 most-read Hopkins Press Journal articles are tallied! Featuring: @JoDemocracy @World_Pol @BrookingsPress @BHMjournal @SocResJournal @kiejournalgu @ACPAJCSD @StudiesInRom @theory_event @philpsychpsy @JournWomensHist & more! press.jhu.edu/newsroom/top-2…

Hey #histmed! Registration and hotel info is now available for #AAHM2024 in Kansas City! histmed.org/kansas-city-20…

Congratulations (again!) to Nana Osei Quarshie, recipient of the @TheNACBS Walter D. Love Prize in History for “Psychiatry on a Shoestring.” Now in front of the paywall: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… #histmed

Do you need a little more reading for your holiday season? Catch up on the top ten most-accessed journal articles from October, including pieces from @JoDemocracy, @ACPAJCSD, @BHMJournal, @PoeStudies, and much more! ow.ly/ukns50Q8u8S

Have you submitted your paper, panel, roundtable, workshop, or poster proposal for #AAHM2024 yet? We want to see you in Kansas City! Proposals are due Oct 2.

Nana Osei Quarshie’s “Psychiatry on a Shoestring: West Africa & the Global Movements of Deinstitutionalization” in @BHMjournal is co-winner of the Forum for the History of Human Sciences’ 2023 Article Prize #histmed Open access thru Oct 13 ow.ly/Mtsu50PQivj

Congratulations to Nana Osei Quarshie, co-winner of the Forum for the History of Human Sciences’ 2023 Article Prize for “Psychiatry on a Shoestring: West Africa & the Global Movements of Deinstitutionalization.” Now in front of the paywall: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… #histmed

In “Prenatal Care in the Rural United States, 1912–1929,” Nicole Holding discusses programs catalyzed by the Shephard Towner Act & details the challenges of the Children’s Bureau efforts to improve maternal/neonatal outcomes. #histmed muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

In our latest issue, @katariinaparhi and @m_myllykangas examine the history of psychiatric epidemiology in "The History of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Finland: From National Needs to International Arenas, 1900s–1990s" (open access). #histmed muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

What does an 1830s US vaccination campaign reveal about the role of Indigenous people in protecting their communities against variola? Find out in Seth Archer's "Vaccination, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Interior." #histmed muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

In “’When I Think of It I Awfully Dread It’: Conceptualizing Childbirth Pain in Early America, Nora Doyle examines med texts & personal writings to trace how women’s descriptions of pain influenced the use of obstetric anesthesia. #histmed muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Natalie Köhle examines how a little-known Yuan period treatise was key to understanding the rise of phlegm as a major cause of illness in late Imperial China in "The Many Colors of Excrement: Galen and the History of Chinese Phlegm." #histmed muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

"I think I lucked into cholera; it was a doable subject, an effective sampling device. But the next subject I was going to do didn't work out at all, so I want to throw that in for balance." -Charles Rosenberg talks with Allan Brandt in BHM: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… #histmed

The call for papers for #AAHM2024 is live! Proposals due Oct 2. We hope to see you in KC! Find all details here: histmed.org/call-for-paper…

We'd love to hear your ideas, #AAHM2023! Eds @jgreene2, @gabrielasotolav, and @ProfRankin will be near the @JHUPress table at the book exhibit tomorrow morning after the plenary. Stop by and see us!

Pregaming #AAHM2023 with the ⁦@BHMjournal⁩ eds ⁦@gabrielasotolav⁩ ⁦@ProfRankin⁩

Headed to Ann Arbor for the @aahmhistmed meeting this week? Have questions about journal publishing? Find us along with JHMAS & SHM eds @steerewilliams, @Dr_C_Thompson, @HarryYJWu, & Janet Greenlees, at the Meet the Editors roundtable Friday afternoon. #histmed

"Once Bitten: Mosquito-Borne Malariotherapy & the Emergence of Ecological Malariology within/beyond Imp. Britain" by Tom Quick makes a case for the central role that malariotherapy played in the dev of an ecological approach to malaria research/control: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/….

In “‘Heroin Mothers,’ ‘Methadone Babies,’ & the Med Controversy over Methadone Maintenance in the Early 1970s”, Ulrich Koch breaks down how pregnant narcotic addicts & their infants became part of the politically charged debate over MMT. #histmed muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…