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Broader Audiences, Meaningful Engagement
October 7-11, 2024

Historians of medicine often express the desire for their work to reach broader audiences; however, popular platforms—be they television, radio, podcasts, corporate or social media—can reach many but touch few. History of Medicine Week is dedicated to exploring the risks, benefits, experiences, and best practices for historians of medicine to make meaningful connections beyond familiar scholarly communities.

likenessHosted by the American Association for the History of Medicine
Education and Outreach Committee
Adam Biggs, Chair
Rennselaer Ploytechnic Institute

Connecting through Literature, Corporate Media, and the Museum

Closed captioning available on YouTube.

Featuring

Vanessa Heggie, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham

Dana Landress, University of Wisconsin
Moderator

Jessica Martucci, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania 

Lauren Small, Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, Johns Hopkins University 

Beyond the Annual Meeting & History in Therapeutic Spaces

Closed captioning available on YouTube.

Featuring

Katie Dayani, Director of Library Services & Archives, Children’s Mercy Kansas City

 

Sarah Naramore, Northwest Missouri State University & History of Science Society 

Johanna Schoen, History Department, Rutgers University & Advisory Council for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

The Joys and Perils of Relevant History

Closed captioning available on YouTube.

Featuring

Scottie Buehler, Sam Houston State University
Moderator

Jeremy Greene, Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Sarah Handley-Cousins, Executive Editor, Nursing Clio & Department of History, University of Buffalo

Rana Hogarth, Innate project, Science History Institute & History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania 

Conversation with Elena Conis – Author of How to Sell a Poison, 2024 Welch Award Recipient

Closed captioning available on YouTube.

Featuring

Elena Conis, University of California, Berkeley

Insights from around the Consortium

The Consortium offers many opportunities to learn more about the history of medicine.

Join a related Working Group for monthly discussions:

Applied Medical History
Death and Disease in the Islamicate World
Evolution and Heredity in Brazil
Health and the Urban Environment
Medieval European Medical Manuscripts
Objects, Images and Spaces of Health
Reproductive Health Histories
Women, Gender and Sexuality in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

See also work from our fellows:

Susan Brandt, Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830
Emma Broder, The Anatomy of the Epidemic: Contested Illness in Twentieth Century America
Lydia Crafts, “Little Empire”: Medicine, Public Health and Human Experimentation in 20th Century Central America
Cory Gatrall, Race, Racism, and Reproduction in Public Health Nursing, 1900-1940
Jingwen Li, A Phantom History of Phantom Ocular Impairment, 1830-1930
Elizabeth Maher, Building Mechanical Boys: What Autism History Tells us about Constructions of Race, Disability, Gender and Class in the Mid-20th Century United States

Nidia Olvera Hernández, Traditional Uses of Mexican Psychoactive Plants. From the Creation of a National Pharmacopeia to Ethnographical Collections 1900-1957
Tanya Sheehan, After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art
Katherine White, Anatomy and the Search for Natural Man

See the Consortium search hub to find more.