News and Notes
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Sweet Captivity: A History of Primate Science from Cuba to the United States
May 1, 2024
Consortium NEH Fellow Catherine Mas uncovers the gender history and cultural history of early primatology.
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Smithsonian Institution CFP: Sports Technology and Innovation Symposium
April 30, 2024
In Game Changer (2017), Rayvon Fouché argued that modern sports have been radically transformed by scientific and technological advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine.
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Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine: A History of Surgery
April 26, 2024
The Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that our next six-week course, A History of Surgery, will meet Wednesdays, 5:00-6:00 pm, May 1-June 5. The course will be
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Propose a New Working Group
February 28, 2024
The Consortium invites proposals for new online working groups focusing on specialized topics in the history of science, technology or medicine. The deadline for proposals is May 1.
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Collateral Killing: Humans, Rodents, and the Making of the Life Sciences in China, 1940-1980
January 24, 2024
How did lab animals become "sentient drug factories" with significant influence over the history of health and medicine in China? Read about Peter Braden's research examining the multispecies history of science in modern China.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison has launched HADES (Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources)
January 16, 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s HADES (Health Advertisements Database from Ebling Sources) offers advertisements from health sciences journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, hospital management, laboratory management, and the allied health sciences from 1923 to 2007.
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Harvesting Diversity: Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the Transformation of the Green Revolution, 1950–2000
January 11, 2024
Consortium Fellow Leo Chu examines the tensions between development and sustainability in Taiwan's Green Revolution.
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McGill University Joins Consortium
December 21, 2023
The Consortium is delighted to welcome McGill University as a member.
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Fellowship Opportunities at the Linda Hall Library
December 18, 2023
The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2024-25 fellowship program.
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Fellowship Opportunities at Duke University
December 18, 2023
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University in Durham, N.C., is now accepting applications for their 2024-2025 research travel grant program.