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Addictive Forms: Opium, Physiology, and the Stimulable Empire in the Nineteenth Century

Read about the research of Consortium Fellow Menglu Gao, as she rethinks the conceptual relationship between addiction and empire in the nineteenth century, based on her research in the collections of the Wellcome and Yale University.
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Monday, October 7, 2024 - 12:00pm
History of Medicine Week with the AAHM

Exploring the risks, benefits, experiences, and best practices for making meaningful connections beyond scholarly communities.
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HSS@100: Mining in the history and social studies of science

How are mines sites of producing and contesting knowledge? What can the methods and sources used in studying mines teach us about trends in the history and sociology of science?

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University of Illinois Receives NEH Grant to Amplify Access to the Archives of Women Scientists

The University of Illinois Library has received a $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create digital resources and the foundation for a network of partners that amplifies access to the digitized archives of women scientists, focusing initially on the domestic science movement.
Explore Medicine on Screen from the National Library of Medicine

Medicine on Screen is a curated portal to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) historical audiovisual collections.
Book Launch ~ Challenging Stories: Exploring the Intersections between Health and the Humanities

Join the National Institute of Health to celebrate the open-access publication of Challenging Stories: Exploring the Intersections between Health and the Humanities.
Research Fellowships from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center

Applications are due October 15, 2024.
Elizabeth Coates Paschall Receipt Book Digitized

The book is available in partnership with the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.
Chasing the Magic Bullet: The History and Consequences of Vaccine Research

Consortium Fellow Kirsten Moore-Sheeley discusses the history and consequences of failures and challenges in vaccine research.
Call for Papers: 6th AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences

Celebrating the Physical Sciences and Embracing Diversity:
The 6th AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences
NLM Welcomes Applications to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2025

he National Library of Medicine (NLM) Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10,000 to support research using the NLM collection

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Upcoming Events

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 9:30 am EDT

History and Philosophy of Contemporary Theoretical Physics

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Color Studies

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 2:30 pm EDT

Simplice Ayangma Bonoho

The WHO in Central Africa: History of International Health Colonialism (1956-2000)

Thursday, October 10, 2024 10:00 am EDT

Plants in African and Planetary Entanglements: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and Aesthetics (MMEA)

Thursday, October 10, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Collection Ecologies

Thursday, October 10, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Pratik Chakrabarti

The Naked Pharaohs: Decolonizing the History of Science

Friday, October 11, 2024 11:00 am EDT

Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health

Friday, October 11, 2024 12:30 pm EDT

Energy History

Friday, October 11, 2024 5:45 pm EDT

Michel Janssen

Lucy Mensing: Forgotten Quantum Pioneer

Saturday, October 12, 2024 10:00 am EDT

Stories of Science: Mystery Science

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