Journal of the Hist. of Medicine & Allied Sciences

HAGS!!!!!! xoxo <3

We were here for a good time if not a long time! -Olivia <3 (CWRU)

okay ATM moment you're still here and I'm still here, juggling grad school + prelims + life + the impending demise of this beautifully weird online corner of the world. if this is it, it's been a treat to share brilliant work and learn from and with all of you -mk (umn, hstm)

Wondering about prenatal care's evolution and how it shaped popular ideals of pregnancy in the 20th c. US? Dr. Agnes Howard writes about this and more in “Changing Expectation: Prenatal Care and the Creation of Healthy Pregnancy” tinyurl.com/y2dy6tnn #hmed #ICYMI #hstm #WCW

Happy November! Up first - “The Case Against the Doctors” by @KellyODonn (Oct 2020 issue). How did the emerging critical science writing of the 1960s challenge popular deference to the authority of US science and medicine? Find out at tinyurl.com/yjma24r6 #WCW #ICYMI #histmed

And if you really want to "take Charles Atlas by the...hand," follow up by watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show!

#ThrowbackThursday to @lucyclio and @jgolden08’s article “‘Live Clean, Think Clean, and Don't Go to Burlesque Shows’: Charles Atlas as Health Advisor” from our January ‘02 issue. Read it here! bit.ly/3DibUhk

All the articles for our @JournalHMAS special issue have been accepted! "Healthcare Practitioners’ Emotions + the Politics of Wellbeing in Post-War Anglo-America" will have fab articles on House of God, community health practitioners, hospital administrators + abortion providers.

Skeletons: spooky or scientific?☠️ #ThrowbackThursday to @mattlavine’s article “The Early Clinical X-Ray in the United States: Patient Experiences and Public Perceptions.” Read it here! bit.ly/3fYWJlb

We're happy to announce a new podcast from the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, "For the Medical Record" The trailer is available now, with full episodes coming soon! open.spotify.com/show/3Syg2TBKA…

Call for papers for the 2023 CSHM/CAHN Joint Conference! The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing will hold their joint annual meeting in person at York University on May. Deadline: Dec. 15. cshm-schm.ca/cfp-2023-cshm-…

Picking up an Rx soon?💊Read this week’s #ThrowbackThursday, @jgreene2’s “What's in a Name? Generics and the Persistence of the Pharmaceutical Brand in American Medicine” from our October ‘11 issue. Read it here! bit.ly/3V7b1QQ

@writingback @ChiaraBcc sorry about that, copyright can be tricky! if it's helpful - Chiara Beccalossi, "Female Same-sex Desires: Conceptualizing a Disease in Competing Medical Fields in Nineteenth-century Europe," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2012

@JournalHMAS @ChiaraBcc cannot access 🥲

We’re throwing it back a decade for our #wcw! Join us in revisiting this fantastic article by @chiaraBcc that contributes to our historical understanding of sexuality, "sexual inversion," medicalization, the 19th century...tinyurl.com/2p89shtn #hstm #histsci #histmed #histsex

Been procrastinating about sending in an abstract for @aahmhistmed 2023? You're in luck! Deadline is now Oct 10. Choose in person in Ann Arbor, May 11-14 '23 or online a week later. See here: histmed.org/cfp2023 for details. #historyofmedicine #histmed

Fall (and football season) is here! 🍂🏈 #ThrowbackThursday to @bachyns’s "'The Duty of Their Elders' – Doctors, Coaches, and the Framing of Youth Football’s Health Risks, 1950s–1960s," in our January 19 issue. Read it here: bit.ly/3UOWVmV

Today’s #wcw is Merit Ptah, "The First Female Physician," as inspired by Jakub M Kwiecinski’s article in our January 2020 issue...#icymi check it out here: tinyurl.com/5n8rdye2 #histmed #histsci #WomenInSTEM #History

It’s booster and flu shot season!💉#ThrowbackThursday to @MBresalier’s article “Fighting Flu: Military Pathology, Vaccines, and the Conflicted Identity of the 1918–19 Pandemic in Britain” from our January '13 issue. Read it here! bit.ly/3S4Gv8n

#ICYMI here's an advance article from our upcoming issue...thanks to Emily Gordon for an insightful and brilliant piece! #histmed #MedTwitter #histSTM tinyurl.com/2p858brh

Timothy N DeVita’s article “Fighting a Plague: Doctors' Stories of Challenge and Innovation Combatting the AIDS Epidemic in 1980s New York City" shares 8 experiences and highlights the complex - and unique - challenges faced in providing HIV/AIDS care bit.ly/3Rw7l8I