(Call for papers) Studying Midwifery Work and Workers in Global Africa across Time, Spaces, and Disciplines histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/le-m... #histmed
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@alexandreklein.bsky.social(Call for papers) Studying Midwifery Work and Workers in Global Africa across Time, Spaces, and Disciplines histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/10/le-m... #histmed
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Vintage Book Cover: First published 1964, this edition 1968. Rachel Cosgrove [ 11 Dec 1922-10 Oct 1998] also wrote fantasy & romances tinyurl.com/9ru4w4c4 & tinyurl.com/mw735x28 & tinyurl.com/95wendzm #histmed #medicalhistory #medicalfiction
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Find: This issue of the "Saturday Evening Post" is dated Oct 10, 1914. The long-running American magazine began publication as a weekly in 1897; it currently appears six times a year #histmed #histnursing tinyurl.com/s5dmrysc #medicalhistory #nursinghistory
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: Physician Ernest M. Poate [10 Oct 1884-1 Feb 1935] wrote novels & stories featuring two detectives, a psychiatrist & the other a NY pathologist. Beginning in 1931 he held the new chair in neuropsychiatry at Duke Univ tinyurl.com/bwnw3x7u #histmed #medicalfiction #medicalhistory
@prosanitate.bsky.socialCheck out our G. Geltner’s new chapter, “L’igiene pubblica,” in Comuniter et concorditer: Lo Statuto di Todi del 1275, ed. Enrico Menetò (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 2026), 159-72.
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday’s Find: A.J. Wright, “Humphry Davy’s Small Circle of Bristol Friends” in the “Middle East J Anesthesiology” 13(3):233-279, 1995 tinyurl.com/knnc7mnv #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #humphrydavy #thomasbeddoes
@ajwrightmls.bsky.socialToday's Patent Medicine Card: Phenyo-Caffein Company operated late 19th-early 20th centuries tinyurl.com/26425y4t #histmed #medicalhistory
@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 🗃️
@kingschostm.bsky.social
@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
