New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist

A little retrospective of the past year to close out Anniversary Week: envhistnow.com/2025/09/19/e... #envhist #envhum

CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health' A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 13 October #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

🎉 Congratulations to the winner of the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 (Small Exhibition): Capturing the Stars: The Untold History of Women at Yerkes Observatory @University of Chicago Library. An inspiring exhibition revealing the hidden contributions of women in astronomy from 1900–1933. 🧵

🏆 Joint Winner of the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 (Large Exhibition): Breaking Ground @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Exploring fossils, palaeontology networks, and the hidden contributions of women, labourers and miners in 19th-century science. Learn more below 🧵

🎉 Congratulations to the joint winner of the BSHS Exhibiting Excellence Prize 2024 (Large Exhibition Category): Measuring Difference @ Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. A bilingual exhibition showing Latin America as a space of scientific innovation, 🧵

Happy to share the launch of the new, hybrid African History Seminar @ihr.bsky.social . Check out our fall program here: history.ac.uk/news-events/... If you're in London and want to present new research on Africa, get in touch!

News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) founded in 1918 as the Firemen's Trade Union began as a body based around the London area, but soon expanded to include provincial brigades. #EmergencyServicesDay Copies of the FBU journal 'Firefighter' can be viewed here: cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

One for #histnursing ?

Save the Dates in your planners! The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed. Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026 University of Leeds @sshmedicine.bsky.social Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed

The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome). 'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 📅Monday 6 October [Online] 🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time) Register via the link on the webpage #histmed #histSTM

We’re hiring! We are currently recruiting for a 3-year Lecturer in Nature, Environment and Society to join our Department from January 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit:http://bit.ly/45MipZl Closing Date: 5th October 2025 #nature #environment #society #WeAreSTS

Big congratulations 🎉 to Jorinde Wels from KU Leuven for winning the #eahmh25 Pieter van Foreest Prize 🏆 for best student presentation!

Medicine on a Larger Scale launched with an inspiring conversation and…. that’s a wrap for #eahmh25! Thanks to all who made this conference a truly wonderful affair. See you in two years in Prague! @eahmh.bsky.social #histmed

Join us this evening to the book launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale with many #eahmh25 participants, our keynote Projit Mukharji and drinks, of course! Lettretage, 18:00 today! @eahmh.bsky.social

#EAHMH25 very interesting panel on Disease Ecologies with excellent papers on Malaria, Dengue, Influenza and Rabies. Reflections on health education, environment and industry.

if you liked #eahmh25 in Berlin, you'll love EAHMH27 in Prague! Congratulations to the new President of @eahmh.bsky.social, Katerina Liskova!

And.... after a terrific conference in Berlin, the next #eahmh25 conference will be in Prague. See you all in Czech at #eahmh27!

@hanspols.bsky.social finishes the panel by putting the focus on the civil sector involvement in 1980s #eahmh25

Elsa Richardson on Battle Creek Sanatorium's historical push for good germs & (often bland) diets! #eahmh25

@pederclark.bsky.social is telling "an emotional history of Ecstasy before rave" so also before this song #eahmh25

Eric Engstrom uses the panel chaired by Catherine Coleborne on deinstitutionalisation to announce the reboot of the journal "History of Psychiatry" (@journals.sagepub.com) who has structured the field since 1990 #eahmh25 #histpsych #histmed #newcovertocome

Catherine Coleborne opens the panel by talking about early post-institutional care (1907-1930) #deinstitutionalisationbeforedeinstitutionalisation #movingthechronology #eahmh25

River swimming… but is it safe? Crocodiles, E. Coli and how we understand the environment by Claas Kirchhelle at #eahmh25 #histmed @eahmh.bsky.social

I can't believe this idea that's been in my head for ten years is finally a thing in the world. @uchicagopress.bsky.social #histmed #EAHMH25 #sts #histsci press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Now onto @institutpasteur.bsky.social 's Jules Villa on field-based perspectives on the Zaire monkeypox project (1981-1986)! #eahmh25

Chris Sandal-Wilson uses the #eahmh25 conference to move from his book on Palestine to his new project on politics of mental illness in state of collapse #histpsych

Thomas McDow on 'The Lives and Afterlives of Project Sida' on tracing and emphasizing the careers and major contributions of Congolese researchers in AIDS research #eahmh25

Julia Cummiskey on 'Ugandan Virus Researchers and the Localities of Global Health' at #eahmh25

Birgit Nemec introduces the panel discussion "Health Beyond Medicine": it's also a discussion on moving beyond medical historians with the participation of Edmund Bolger, Edina Nagy and Eszter Lazar #eahmh25

Getting ready for a second #histpsych panel at #eahmh25: this one about mental health in postcolonial settings, chaired by @hanspols.bsky.social

With Ernest Mangesho we are moving to Tanzania. The project "After the Single Use" comprises eigth countries #eahmh25 wellcome.org/research-fun...

Maxime Guttin argues that notions of degeneracy in brain studies were linked to the development of racialized categories of difference between 1750 and 1840 #EAHMH25

Safe melted plastic syringe blocks? Unsettling presentation on single disposables in medicines by Jeremy Greene at #eahmh25

Frightening title: Medical Megastructures and Care Architecture @davidfreis.bsky.social on architectural German dystopias in the second 20th century #eahmh25

This is just mind-blowing: Poul Gernes' work inside a concrete grey 120 metres high teaching hospital in Danemark #herlev #eahmh25

Very nice paper on 'How Prevention Became Social - public health atomism & assemblage in Dutch Immunization Programmes' - in #eahmh25 panel on prevention & preparedness by Martin van der Meer!

Essential training for any conference organiser #eahmh25!

How transporting patients in the 2000s was imagined in the 1970s: hospitals as a machine inspired by the US space industry @davidfreis.bsky.social #eahmh25

Fascinating presentation by Jorinde Wells on "Pandemic over-preparedness: Japanese Public Health Preparedness and 1944 Influenza" #Eahmh25

Victoria Bates and Clare Hickman kick off the panel on Therapeutic Spaces, Hospital Architecture by presenting on more-than-human approaches followed by papers by @davidfreis.bsky.social (Medical Megastructures) and Michael Baers (The Social Democratic Carnivalesque). #EAHMH25

The traditional boat trip of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health is happening. Andreas Jüttemann is guiding us through Berlin’s medical history. Make sure to join the association not to miss out on the next boat trip in two years! #EAHMH25

And now for the traditional boat tour of @eahmh.bsky.social ! Special guided tour through Berlin by historian of medicine Andreas Jüttemann #eahmh25 #histmed

The wonderful @historyelaine.bsky.social on paper technologies, advertisements and bringing together media studies and history of early modern medicine through an impressive archive project in her keynote lecture #eahmh25 #histmed

#EAHMH25 Bogdan C. Iacob concludes the panel by presenting on the introduction of medicinal plants in Romania during the late Cold War and how the embracing of traditional medicine forged cooperation with the Global South.

Check out our brand new special issue “Socialist Health: of Shortages and Solidarity” at the Brill book stand of #eahmh25 ! also fully OA at brill.com/view/journal... #histmed

Lu Chen gives a paper on the expansion of vaccine programs in China in the second half of the 20th C arguing that health decision making shifted from the clinical gaze to the economic gaze.

Moving from Yoga in the United States to the Medicalization of the Unconscious in the Late Soviet Union, by Roman Main #joyofdiversityintopics #eahmh25

Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez-Díaz present on social experiments and applied anthropology in post-revolutionary Mexico. #EAHMH25