We are pleased to announce this year?s Paterson Lecture: Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya, ?Ideas, Adaptive Implementation and Smallpox Eradication: Reorienting Notions of Value and Worth in Global Health.? Sanjoy Bhattacharya is Professor of Medical and Global Health Histories within the School of History at the University of Leeds in the UK, where he also serves as …
The fourth seminar in the Pandemic Histories seminar series is happening July 23rd at 4 pm EST. This roundtable seminar “Public(s) and their Health,” features Mitchell Hammond, James Hanley, and Sarah Isabelle Wallace. Registration available here through Zoom. The CSHM is happy to sponsor Pandemic Histories! What defines the public(s) in ?public health?? Three historians explore the …
Date: June 29, 3PM EST. Duration 1 hour. Title: The Second Wave?: Looking ahead to this fall, through the lens of history and science. An interdisciplinary panel discussion on Covid-19 with public health physician and scientist, Dr. Doug Manuel, and historians Dr. Esyllt Jones and Dr. Christopher Rutty. Hosted by: Ingenium: Canada’s Museums of …
Beyond Borders: Health and Medicine in Historical Context Date: 3-7 December 2019 Venue: Auckland New Zealand This conference is located in Auckland New Zealand. Whilst New Zealand is far removed geographically from the epicentre of many significant past medical developments, we believe it is important to view the history of health and medicine in a …
Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine Biennial Conference 2019 Read More »
Dr. Nick Busing, Chair of the Board, Associated Medical Services Inc., is pleased to announce the appointment of Shelley McKellar as a Member of the Board of Directors. Dr Shelley McKellar is the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and Associate Professor of History in the …
Registration for The Inaugural Jacalyn Duffin Health & Humanities Conference, organized by Queen’s School of Medicine is now open! The conference aims to create a space where students and educators of all disciplines can come together to discuss the intersections of health, medicine, arts and the humanities. Our conference is held in honor of Dr. …
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Oct 2 ?The Medical Report on the Halifax Explosion? Dr. Jock Murray ?The Scene of a Triumph of Surgery, the Response of Nova Scotia Doctors to the Halifax Explosion? Dr. Allan Marble Nov 6 ?Role of Pharmacists in the Halifax Explosion? Mary MacCara ?Meaningful Hope in Medicine? Dr. Ian Cameron Dec 4 ?Amputations and the …
DR. NICHOLAS CAMBRIDGE TJ (JOCK) MURRAY VISITING SCHOLAR From Mr. Pickwick to Tiny Tim: Charles Dickens & Medicine Dr. Nicholas Cambridge Honorary Research Fellow in Humanities & Medical History University of Buckingham, UK Nicholas qualified as an electrical engineer in 1970 and then decided to become a doctor. He graduated from The Middlesex Hospital, London …
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Please join us for our 2017 Visiting Speaker Lecture, to be delivered by Dr Jeffery Baker, Director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke University, on Tuesday, Oct 3, 2017. Dr Baker will be talking about his work on the history of autism. Historians have generally described autism as …
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Quarantine Tent on July 1, 2017 Meet time-travellers from the past who are each recovering from a disease that was once common. Discover the amazing history of diseases, vaccination, and prevention. All ages are invited to drop in between 10 am and 6 pm. Location: At ArtFest Kingston in City Park (just steps away from …
