Are you ready for History of Medicine week? Join us October 6-10 for a week of conversations & community building for anyone interested in the history of medicine. And there's more - check our website for other events happening online and around the country! #histmed histmed.org/history-of-m...

The Committee on Student Affairs is hosting Virtual Co-working Hours, held Fridays between 3-5 ET on Zoom. Whether you're working on seminar papers, dissertation chapters, or abstracts, join the Student Affairs Committee on Zoom for some camaraderie in writing! #histmed histmed.org/committee-on...

The call for papers for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine is live now! We hope you will join us in Buffalo! histmed.org/buffalo-2026/

The Miller Lifetime Achievement Award honors a retired scholar with a distinguished record of scholarly contributions to the field of the history of medicine. This year, our honoree was Jacqueline H. Wolf, author of three books & numerous articles on the history of women's health. Congrats, Jackie!

The Welch Medal honors outstanding scholarly work in the history of medicine. Out of a truly impressive shortlist, Elizabeth A. O'Brien won the Welch Medal for her book "Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940," published by @uncpress.bsky.social. 🗃️

The George Rosen Prize honors a significant contribution to the history of public health or the history of social medicine. This year's honoree was @nursingclio.bsky.social for their "critical service to the profession and to humanity in the present political climate." 🗃️

We're excited to announce our partnership with Gale to offer three digital humanities fellowships to support research or teaching projects using Gale Primary Sources & use digital humanities methodologies. Applications due June 13, so check it out and apply! histmed.org/aahm-gale-di...

The Pressman-Burroughs Career Development award aids scholars in transforming their 20th c history of medicine work into a first book. This year's recipient is Marissa Nichols for her project, The Backbone of Rural Health: Nursing and Indigenous Healing in Oaxaca. We can't wait to read!

The Estes Prize is awarded for the best published paper in the history of pharmacology. This year's award went to Michael Stanley-Baker of Nanyang Technological University for his essay, “Mapping the Bencao: Laoguanshan at the Far End of the Yellow River Corridor,” Asian Medicine 18 (2024): 260-303.

The Shryock Medal goes to the best histmed essay by a history grad student. Emma Wathen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, won the Shryock Medal for her oustanding essay, “These ‘Children Won’t Become Women’: Depo-Provera, Intellectual Disability, and the Indian Health Service." Congrats, Emma!

The honorable mention for the Shryock Medal went to Jingwen Li of Princeton University for her essay, “’Glasses He Made Sent Dr. Rakusen into Court’: Disputing Vision Diagnosis in 1920s Global Shanghai." Great job, Jingwen!

This week, we honor our 2025 award winners! Zoe Kieu Bui Hahn from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine earned the Osler Medal for her exceptional essay, "She Doesn't Understand, She's Afraid, I Don't Think She Cares": The Irrigation Smear from 1962 - 1969." Congratulations! 🗃️

So pleased to see "Starved for Light" among these stellar titles featured by @uchicagopress.bsky.social for the AAHM @aahmhistmed.bsky.social 2025 conference this last weekend!

What a great @aahmhistmed.bsky.social conf! Highlights for me include seeing my @urochestersmd.bsky.social student Bella present her poster, sharing a panel w/ two brilliant art historians (Mary Hunter and @drfijohnstone.bsky.social), and seeing the galley prints of my monograph at the book exhibit!

Even though #AAHM2025 is coming to an end, there’s still time to browse our virtual exhibit! Get 30% off & free domestic shipping on books with promo code EX58000: bit.ly/UCPEXAAHM.

Always great to meet our authors in the wild! Thanks #aahm2025 @mstanleybaker.bsky.social’s book is out in paperback next month manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191120/

Just so proud today to have my Center postdoc and past PhD advisee awarded the Pressman prize at @aahmhistmed.bsky.social #aahm25. It’s been a tough year for us both but so glad to see Marissa’s important work on indigenous healing in Mexico recognised

A lot to process about the ethics of doing health and medical history at #aahm25 @aahmhistmed.bsky.social if you enjoyed the discussions you can pre order #dolessharm from @hopkinspress.bsky.social now. QR in photo. Conference discount code is HAAHM25

Enjoying #aahm2025? Don't miss 30% off our essential #histmed titles throughout the conference - browse the reading list here and use code EVENT30 at checkout:

Had a lovely first time attending the AAHM conference and presenting my poster on the entangled histories of the ICD and the Electronic Medical Record! #aahm2025 @aahmhistmed.bsky.social

We couldn’t be prouder of this honor, especially that it happens in the same year our (first?) book comes out.

AAHM Asia network breakfast meeting. Great to meet everyone! @aahmhistmed.bsky.social

Welcome to Bluesky, @aahmhistmed.bsky.social! We’ve added you to our starter pack of scientific societies and associations in the U.S.

This slide from Ilana Löwy’s Garrison lecture resonates in the history of medicine, but also across all historical disciplines. #aahm2025

The centennial Garrison Lecture, offered by scholar Ilana Löwy, entitled “What is a Diagnosis? A Tribute to Ludwig Fleck and Charles Rosenberg.” #aahm2025

There's still time to register to watch tonight's Fielding H. Garrison Lecture, delivered by Ilana Löwy, on Zoom! The lecture starts at 6 pm est. Register here:

If you're here with us in Boston for #aahm2025, you'd better be planning to join us at the Garrison reception after Ilana Löwy's lecture, because it's time to ✨ celebrate✨ AAHM's 100th birthday! 🍾 🥂 🥳

I know this year's program is 🔥 but everyone needs a break now and then -- if you want to get out and about Boston, the LAC has thoughts! See the Boston Meeting Guide for their best recommendations. histmed.org/boston-2025/ #aahm2025

💖 Susan Reverby appreciation post 💖

Hello again AAHM! Lots of new history of medicine books to show you at the MUP stand. Come say hi 📚 #aahm2025 #histmed

Our @aahmhistmed.bsky.social exhibit is open in the Independence Ballroom on the 2nd floor. Stop by to see books by fellow attendees and a great selection from 17 publishers! #AAHM2025

Happening tonight, starting at 6 pm est in the Grand Ballroom! There's still time to register for the livestreamed event to join us from afar. Register here: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Important roundtable on how we as historians of medicine can find ways to “do less harm.” Former prez Barron Lerner points out how our positionality affects our historical work - and how that positionality is especially affected by our current political climate. #aahm2025

Challenging times for the American Association for the History of Medicine; I'm not sure which is under attack more, history or medicine

Yeah we are! #histmed is ready to WORK

Allan Brandt welcomes us to our opening plenary, telling us that we are in a moment of crisis, making AAHM even more vital - we will need each other! #AAHM2025

Allan Brandt welcomes us to the opening plenary addressing the “ahistoric” approach of the federal government, telling us this is a moment of crisis, but that AAHM will be all the more vital as we move forward. We need each other!

Our deepest apologies, but due to a tech failure at the hotel, we are unable to offer the planned zoom this morning for the opening plenary. Please do join us this evening for the Garrison lecture. So sorry, and thanks for understanding. #aahm2025

So great to be with all our #histmed friends @aahmhistmed.bsky.social in Boston celebrating our book “Do Less Harm: Erhical Questions for Health Historians”. Check it out at the @hopkinspress.bsky.social table or online www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... and use code HAAHM for a conference discount

There's still time to register for tomorrow's welcoming remarks from Pres Fissell & opening plenary, "Ahistoric Administration: The Crisis of Historical Expertise in US Health Policymaking, Politics, and Emergency Response," starting at 8:30 am est. Register here:

Join us for an exciting opening Special Plenary, "Engaging in the Debates about the Uses of Race in Medicine," generously funded by the Doris Duke Foundation and moderated by LAC co-chair David Shumway Jones. This panel is being livestreamed! Register here: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #aahm2025

Happy Annual Meeting, #histmed!! If you're posting about your conference adventures here on 🦋 please tag us or use #aahm2025!