News and Notes
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University of Oklahoma Collections Added to Consortium Search Hub
January 31, 2020
Listings for more than 61,000 published works from the University's History of Science Collections are now included in the Consortium's search hub.
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Jewish Midwives and Female Agency in Early Modern Europe
January 24, 2020
Bridging historical subfields to bring greater insight into the formation and flow of medical knowledge and authority
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Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles
January 17, 2020
How African Americans mobilized eugenics and racial science to challenge scientific racism
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CFP: Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science
January 9, 2020
Submissions for this two-day conference are due February 3, 2020.
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December 2019 Newsletter
January 7, 2020
Read about the Consortium's newest member, news about fellows and fellowships, working groups, and the collections of member institutions.
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Hope and Human Defect in Progressive America
January 7, 2020
Finding the role of the family in the rise of eugenic institutions
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Homo-Musicus: The Early Modern Sciences of the Human Body
December 17, 2019
Early modern philosophers from across western Europe found in music tools to connect the physical and even mechanical processes of the body with the more abstract phenomena of thought, cognition, health, and pleasure.
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Wellcome Collection Makes Papers of the UK Health Education Council and Health Education Authority Available for Research
December 12, 2019
A remarkable archive that richly documents British health promotion campaigns in the late twentieth century is now available for researchers at Wellcome Collection.
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The College of Physicians of Philadelphia adds Silas Weir Mitchell papers to digital collections.
December 12, 2019
The Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia is pleased to announce a major new addition to its digital collections with the online publication of much of our primary source material related to the life and work of Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914).
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Adler Planetarium announces new Chicago's Night Sky exhibit
December 12, 2019
In a corner of the Adler Planetarium’s new Chicago’s Night Sky exhibit, a display containing two iPads invites guests to “help us learn about constellations across cultures and centuries.”