March 15, 2023
1:00 pm
New “For the Medical Record” Mini Episode with Alexandre White Released
A new episode of “For the Medical Record” will be published March 15!
In one of our mini episodes based on colloquium talks given here at Hopkins, we speak to Alexandre White about his book Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease (Stanford University Press, 2023). The launch of this book was presented on February 7, 2023 as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series.
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12:00 pm
New “For the Medical Record” Episode Released
A new episode of "For the Medical Record" will be published February 28!
Join us in our conversation with Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, and Jason Chernesky, PhD, about the Opioid Industry Documents Archive. Both based at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Alexander is a practicing internist and epidemiologist, and Dr. Chernesky is a historian of medicine and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Opioid Industry Research Postdoctoral Fellow. Taking the OIDA's collection of documents as the starting point, we discuss commercial determinants of health, geographies of empathy across American drug epidemics, what litigation documents can tell us about public health, and writing the “second draft” of the story of the opioid epidemic.
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October 21, 2022
10:00 am / 6:00 pm
Conference: Achieving Health Equity in a World of Data
For more information and to join us live, or to watch a replay, visit https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/events/achieving-health-equity-data-conf/
Read MoreJune 2, 2022
Making Space for Social Medicine in Medical School Curricula: Transnational Perspectives and Pedagogy
Title: Making Space for Social Medicine in Medical School Curricula: Transnational Perspectives and Pedagogy
What: Online Global Social Medicine Workshop
When: June 1-2, 2022
For more info: https://globalsocialmedicine.org/online-workshop-making-space-for-social-medicine-inn-medical-school-curricula-transnational-perspectives-and-pedagogy/
Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-social-medicine-network-online-workshop-tickets-319707332237
Focus: Illness and healing can never fully be separated from social context. Yet while medical education around the world has legible standards for bioscientific subject materials, we are far more uneven in how we teach the social sciences necessary for the study of health and medicine. This event, sponsored by the Global Social Medicine Network, brings together educators from four continents on the challenges and opportunities for teaching social medicine in the 21st century.
Read MoreJune 1, 2022
Making Space for Social Medicine in Medical School Curricula: Transnational Perspectives and Pedagogy
Title: Making Space for Social Medicine in Medical School Curricula: Transnational Perspectives and Pedagogy
What: Online Global Social Medicine Workshop
When: June 1-2, 2022
For more info: https://globalsocialmedicine.org/online-workshop-making-space-for-social-medicine-inn-medical-school-curricula-transnational-perspectives-and-pedagogy/
Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-social-medicine-network-online-workshop-tickets-319707332237
Focus: Illness and healing can never fully be separated from social context. Yet while medical education around the world has legible standards for bioscientific subject materials, we are far more uneven in how we teach the social sciences necessary for the study of health and medicine. This event, sponsored by the Global Social Medicine Network, brings together educators from four continents on the challenges and opportunities for teaching social medicine in the 21st century.
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