The research project “Socialist Medicine: an Alternative Global Health History”, funded by the ERC Starting Grant SOCMED, invites us to rethink the emergence of global health in the 20th century. The project aims to broaden the scope of global health history by redirecting the focus of research in terms of place, people, and institutions to the socialist world. Demarcated as a fluctuating constellation of Eastern European, Asian, Latin American and African countries connected through political ideology, expert networks, economic development, aid, and military interventions, the project centres socialist countries in the Cold War.
The Consortium's Emanuel Fellows for 2023-2024 are working on exciting new projects at the intersection of animal history and history of science, technology and medicine.
Read about Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow Nicole Welk-Joerger's research into the history of ruminology, and how a niche corner of animal science helped shape agribusiness and the role of beef and cattle in American food culture.
As part of its efforts to increase communications between the United States and Latin America, the Red de Estudios de Ciencias y Saberes en Latinoamérica y el Caribe (RECSLAC) is pleased to co-sponsor the VII Escuela Doctoral de Estudios Sociales y Políticos sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESOCITE), which will be held 17-21 July 2023 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The ESOCITE doctoral school brings together advanced PhD students and faculty in STS and the History of Science for in depth discussion of dissertation chapters and articles.
The Cedars-Sinai Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MHGS) invites applications for the 2023–2024 Strauss Fellowship from early-career scholars: ABDs, postdocs and assistant professors (or the equivalent professional stage).
The Consortium has completed another upgrade of the Collections Search Hub. Among other enhancements, the search now incorporates finding aids.
The collection will provide materials for research in history of medicine and public health.
The Consortium is delighted to welcome the University of Toronto as its newest member.
The Consortium is delighted to welcome the National Library of Medicine as a new member.
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow Michael McGovern weaves together history of science and the history of civil rights in his examination of the rise of data-driven litigation surrounding issues of racial equality.
