News and Notes
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"Experiment and Good Sense Must Direct You": the Social Relations of Health, Healing and Knowledge-Making in Eighteenth-Century Plantation America.
January 19, 2012
Claire Gherini, Johns Hopkins University
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Call for Papers: 47th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar
December 13, 2011
The 47th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, beginning with an opening reception and plenary the evening of Friday April 20th, f
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Fellow Update: Karin Eckholm
December 8, 2011
Karin Eckholm, 2008-2009 Dissertation Research Fellow, has sent us an update on her activities since leaving PACHS.
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Support the Center
December 6, 2011
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Call for Papers: Environmentalism, Health, and Policy: New Perspectives
December 6, 2011
The Department of History of Science & Technology at Johns Hopkins University invites proposals that explore new themes and perspectives on environmental problems, both past and present.
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Call for Papers: Life Sciences, Agriculture, and the Environment
December 6, 2011
The Department of History of Science & Technology at Johns Hopkins University is soliciting proposals for a volume of essays that will explore the relationship between the life sciences, agricu
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Fall 2011 Newsletter
December 5, 2011
The Center's recent newsletter has news of our fellowships, events and collections.
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The Library Company's William H. Helfand Collection of Proprietary Medicine Pamphlets
December 2, 2011
The Visual Culture Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia recently held a reception at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where Trustee William H.
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Phrenology at Princeton
November 8, 2011
Elizabeth Bennett Library for History and History of Science Princeton University Library Princ
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Engineers’ Club of Philadelphia Records, 1877-1988
November 8, 2011
Tamara Gaskell Historian & Director of Publications and Scholarly Programs Historical Society of Pennsylvania The Historical Society of Pennsylvania holds the records of the Engineers’ Club of