(Call for papers) 29th Annual Meeting Southern Association for the History of Medicine & Science histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/coll... #histmed #histSTM
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@alexandreklein.bsky.social(Call for papers) 29th Annual Meeting Southern Association for the History of Medicine & Science histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/coll... #histmed #histSTM
@ajwrightmls.bsky.social1883 Oct 9: Ralph M. Waters was born. With his work at the Univ of Wisconsin he became known as the "Father" of academic anesthesia in the U.S. tinyurl.com/bjgl9de He died 19 Dec 1979 tinyurl.com/27nh4pt2 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Newspaper article 9 Oct 1887 "Burglars & Chloroform" tinyurl.com/wzqxl8d "Burglars Do Not Use It" #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory
@descarteslab.bsky.socialThe event is planned on
Tuesday 27 October - 3 pm (Italy time)
attendance is free - the event is in Italian
Discussants will be Roberto Evangelista and Giulio Gisondi
@drninastuder.bsky.socialAnd 2) "Tracing Narratives of Decay in Nineteenth-Century French Colonial Medicine: Aphrodisiacs, Masculinities and Colonial Algeria", in the Journal of European Studies, published just yesterday: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... - so exciting! 🗃️ #histmed #Colonialism #ColonialMedicine
@drninastuder.bsky.socialAnd I wrote two articles for our "Wet Dreams"-project at the University of Geneva: 1) "Imperial Masculinities: Involuntary Losses of Semen as Markers of White Virility (France, 1830s–1880s)", in the European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health (2025): doi.org/10.1163/2666... #histmed 🗃️
@drninastuder.bsky.socialA few more things to add to my list: Last year, my article on "Female Agents of Colonialism: Medical Reports on Muslim Women in Algeria in the 1890s" was published in the Maghreb Review: muse.jhu.edu/pub/457/arti... #histmed #ColonialMedicine #Colonialism #WomensHistory 🗃️
@amshealthcare.caLand acknowledgements can teach us about the relationships and responsibilities that come with the history of a place. Dr. Lucy Vorobej shares two examples and asks readers to consider the actions we can take for reconciliation.
Read it here: buff.ly/Bt4WbZg
@dohertyta.bsky.socialOh my giddy aunt!!
Hosprec - the database that allows you to search by hospital name & find out if any archives survive is finally back!!
💙🎉💙🎉💙🎉💙🎉
#HistNursing #HistMed #Hospitals @rcnhistory.bsky.social #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: Arlene Hale [1924-1982] wrote more than 100 novels, many medical tinyurl.com/bdh2c6m5 This title published 1975 #histmed #histnursing #medicalhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: Ad for Drs. Dozier & Dozier Medico-Surgical & Electro-Therapeutic Institute at 117 & ½ 21st St in Birmingham #Alabama Bham Age-Herald 8 Oct 1907 tinyurl.com/y7ukh6kk #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: Cliffbourne Hospital in Washington, DC, during the Civil War tinyurl.com/y74syzkz Drawn by cartoonist Clifford Berryman for a Washington Post article published 8 Oct 1902 #histmed #medicalhistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Gunsmoke” episode “Home Surgery” on radio 13 Sept 1952 & TV 8 Oct 1955. Rancher has gangrenous leg & Marshall Dillon has to amputate. Surgery not shown, just preop prep—boiling water, bandages, horse tail hair to tie off arteries & liquor consumption. Patient dies #medicaltv #histmed
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: “Empty Nest” American TV comedy centered on pediatrician Harry Weston in Miami that ran for seven seasons on NBC from Oct 8, 1988, to April 29, 1995. First 5 seasons featured his work in a hospital & his Southern nurse Luverne tinyurl.com/45wy9nwe #histmed #medicalhistory #medicaltv
@monicamedhist.bsky.socialYeah, here's the study that 1st announced the discovery of the sole known copy (then in Wrocław [Breslau], Poland, now in Warsaw): A. W. Henschel, “Document zur Geschichte des schwarzen Todes, mitgetheilt und eingeleitet,” Archiv für die gesammte Medicin. v.2 1842, 26-59. #histmed
![Opening page of A. W. Henschel, “Document zur Geschichte des schwarzen Todes, mitgetheilt und eingeleitet,” Archiv für die gesammte Medicin. v.2 1842, 26-59 ["Document on the History of the Black Death, presented and introduced"].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:twqucin7jqhlteuk37lqltr7/bafkreiabvig7xxekztdubismxqfoji72lsrdwp4opevlgt4isigxdnlwl4@jpeg)
@mqassiti.bsky.socialArchived on the Slow Disaster Podcast here:
soundcloud.com/scott-knowle...
#histmed
@prosanitate.bsky.socialEveryone should go read Paige’s article!
@stemfem.bsky.social10/7/1845 — b. Marie Heim-Vögtlin, Swiss physician, author, suffragist. The first female doctor in Switzerland; co-founder of the first Swiss gynecological hospital (1899). Transformed medical edu for wmn, Univ of Zürich; Swiss postal stamp (2016) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistMed #EduSky
@alexandreklein.bsky.social(New Book) Hippocrates. Man, Medic, Myth histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/hipp... #histmed
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