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Jacob Steere-Williams

@steerewilliams.bsky.social

Historian of disease and the environment. College of Charleston. New book in the works on all things disinfection and the Anthropocene

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Absolutely fantastic book !

28.07.2025 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great to have a glimpse of my new book, How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic coming soon @hopkinspress.bsky.social (no cover yet, but working on it) in new book series on epidemic histories edited @doravargha.bsky.social & @steerewilliams.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

23.07.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Medicine on a Larger Scale Cambridge Core - Global History - Medicine on a Larger Scale

in the fabulous anthology *Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine*, edited by Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene, and Ann Kweim Lie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). The whole volume is #OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1017/9781...

13.05.2025 08:08 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Same! Incredible resource launching

13.05.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Directory of Experts on the History of Medicine and Public Health Membership expertise Directory of Experts on the History of Medicine and Public Health We’re building a database of our members’ expertise – for networking, collaboration, and to serve as a resource…

It's Annual Meeting Eve! Get yourself hyped - add your info to our new Directory of Experts! Thanks to the Ed & Outreach & Diversity & Inclusion Committees, we will use this new database to help connect the experts in our field with the media. histmed.org/membership/e... #aahm2025

30.04.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you have responses to late breaking stories related to health, medicine, disability and/or gender, we want them! We can get timely essays out quick. Great way to provide vital context while venting your rage.

17.04.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YES!

08.04.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The ink is dry, the AAHM celebrations are being planned: I will be joining Towson University's history department this fall as a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of medicine. I can't believe it finally happened. I am so happy and so lucky.

08.04.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 144    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t forget: this is the same death cult that refused common sense pandemic protocols- the shuttering of public health rn was always the plan. We’re still living pandemic politics.

29.03.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is in 2 days: "How Genetics Has Changed the History of the Black Death, And How History Has Changed Genetics." www.mcgill.ca/ssom/upcomin.... Looking forward to a lively discussion of how a #histsci approach to on-going research can capture a paradigm shift in the act. πŸ§ͺ

10.03.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

In these times we need a hero like Frederick the mouse (ala Lionni)

08.03.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just a reminder of this brilliant special issue of JHMAS on new pandemic histories eds @steerewilliams.bsky.social & Claire Edington

29.01.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Issues | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...

New special issue of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Science is now finalized. "Re-Writing Pandemic Histories," edited by @steerewilliams.bsky.social & Claire Edington, academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue. B/c #histmed has no public funder in the U.S., only 3 entries are #OpenAccess. πŸ§ͺ

25.09.2024 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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