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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
In this podcast, Melanie Kiechle answers questions about her book on urban environments, public health, and senses of smell in the nineteenth century.
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Sickness and the City
How have diseases and urban development interacted in history and contemporary societies? Watch video presentations by leading scholars, read other expert commentaries, and add your perspective in our discussion forum.
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Shopping for Health: Medicine and Markets in America
How has medical consumerism contributed to the challenges of our current healthcare system, including the opioid epidemic? Watch video presentations by leading historians, read other scholars' expert commentaries, and add your perspective in our discussion forum.
Upcoming Events
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February 18, 2019
Marcy Norton
HSS Workshop: "Ontological Entanglements: Animals and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica"
University of Pennsylvania
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February 18, 2019
Richard McKay
History of Science and Medicine Colloquia: Richard McKay
Yale University
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February 19, 2019
Alex Mazzaferro
The Innovation Prohibition and the New Science of Politics in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Science History Institute
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February 21, 2019
Kimberly TallBear (University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada)
Harvard University History of Science Seminars: Kimberly TallBear
Harvard University
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February 25, 2019
Daniel Francis Zizzamia
STS Circle at Harvard
Harvard University
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February 25, 2019
Alondra Nelson
History of Science and Medicine Colloquia: Alondra Nelson
Yale University
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February 26, 2019
Monique A. Guishard, Susan M. Reverby, Moderated by Aletha Maybank
Could Tuskegee Happen Today
New York Academy of Medicine
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February 26, 2019
Caroline Rusterholz
Teens and Sex, the History of Brook Advisory Centres
Wellcome Collection
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February 27, 2019
Alisha Rankin
Research Seminar: Alisha Rankin
University of Toronto
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February 27, 2019
Dagmar Schäfer
Dagmar Schäfer - Charted Territories and Unmapped Science: How Good Ideas Come Without a Place and Originator, a Mid-Ming Historian's View
Columbia University
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