pec-events

Find the Midwife Project Launch

by Marian Robbins • March 28, 2024

Join us as we use documentary film to connect midwifery’s past and today’s maternal health crisis. You are invited to join us for project launch events on Tuesday, April 9th across two Baltimore campuses. 12pm – Homewood Campus – Clipper Room, Shriver Hall 3pm – East Baltimore Campus – Room N431, School of Nursing, with […]


HIV/AIDS Education & Messaging Exhibits @ the Welch Medical Library

by Marian Robbins • February 8, 2024

The Welch Medical Library is hosting two complementary exhibitions highlighting the illustrated history of public health messaging as a response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. These exhibitions will be on display in the second floor gallery of the Welch Medical Library building. The building is open form 9-5, M-F. National Library of Medicine Exhibition: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/aids-posters/index.html  AIDS, […]


CFP: New Perspectives in the History of Child Health

by Marian Robbins • September 7, 2023

**2024 Workshop and Special Issue: Call for Proposals** Call for paper proposals for an international workshop on child health history hosted at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, on June 21-22, 2024. There is support available for travel and lodging. The workshop is sponsored by: The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the University of Fribourg In […]


Visual Histories of Humor and Health: A Virtual Symposium

by Marian Robbins • July 20, 2023

Register here for this virtual event! Join us for this virtual symposium exploring visual histories of humor and health, organized by Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow, and Laura Cowley in collaboration with Johns Hopkins’s Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine. These discussions of medically adjacent art will examine the role that visual humor has had […]


New “For the Medical Record” Mini Episode with Zubin Mistry

by Christy Slobogin • July 5, 2023

A new episode of “For the Medical Record” will be published July 14! In one of our mini episodes based on colloquium talks given here at Hopkins, we speak to Zubin Mistry about the paper that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series titled “The […]


New “For the Medical Record” Mini Episode with Rana Hogarth

by Christy Slobogin • June 13, 2023

A new episode of “For the Medical Record” will be published June 15! In one of our mini episodes based on colloquium talks given here at Hopkins, we speak to Rana Hogarth about the paper that she presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series titled “The Science of […]


New “For the Medical Record” Episode with Jessica Leigh Hester

by Christy Slobogin • April 21, 2023

A new episode of the Center’s podcast “For the Medical Record” will be published on Friday, April 28! In this episode, we talk to science journalist and Johns Hopkins History of Medicine PhD student Jessica Leigh Hester about her recent book Sewer (Bloomsbury, 2022). We discuss the medical, social, and structural intricacies of sewers – and […]


New “For the Medical Record” Mini Episode with Courtney Thompson

by Christy Slobogin • April 10, 2023

A new episode of “For the Medical Record” will be published April 14! In one of our mini episodes based on colloquium talks given here at Hopkins, we speak to Courtney Thompson about the paper that she presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series titled “A […]


Exploring the Opioid Industry Documents: Research Communities, Educational Opportunities, and Community Data

by Marian Robbins • March 24, 2023

**See the “Schedule for May 5th” (below) for links to the Webinar recordings** The Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) invites you to Exploring the Opioid Industry Documents: Research Communities, Educational Opportunities, and Community Data. This event will feature a webinar where scholars will discuss how they successfully used OIDA and other Industry Documents Library (IDL) […]


New “For the Medical Record” Episode with Walker Magrath

by Christy Slobogin • March 22, 2023

A new episode of “For the Medical Record” will be published March 31! Join us in our conversation with medical student Walker Magrath about his recent work as a scholarly concentrator in the history of medicine. In 2022, Walker published an article in Annals of Internal Medicine titled “The Fall of the Nation’s First Gender-Affirming Surgery Clinic.” In this […]