I know it sounds Luddite, but I want to be able to click something and have NO AI AT ALL in my computer. Not anywhere in any program unless I so choose (?photo editing maybe?). Mostly I'll get by with my own real intelligence.
23.11.2025 01:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
LOL it is quite the setting, no?
23.11.2025 00:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Female professor at a lectern in an ornate wood panelled library
Honored to have given a George Washington Corner lecture at the Rochester Academy of Medicine -- what a setting!
22.11.2025 00:32 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
and you get to find out an answer or 2!
22.11.2025 00:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks, Kaitlin!
20.11.2025 14:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stitched letter U from a sampler
New post on A is for Abortion Substack! Today we go to drugstores, not blacksmiths, but we are not so very different from medieval and early-modern people, testing urine to ascertain pregnancy. Local experts included blacksmiths, female healers, and doctors.
19.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to come to Rochester! thx!
17.11.2025 18:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine
Wednesday, November 19
5:30 p.m. Lecture
6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering
Rochester Academy of Medicine 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY
Savin, Sex and Scandal: Rethinking Abortion in Early Modern Anglo-America
Abortion only rarely went to court in early-modern England or the American colonies. Before 1803, there was no English criminal statute prohibiting it. Yet the 2022 Dobbs decision declared that abortion had always been perceived as wrong in England and early America. This talk explores a few unusually-detailed legal cases as well as medical sources to explore how seventeenth-century people understood ending a pregnancy.
Co-sponsored by the Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Liberal Arts
Mary E. Fissell is the Inaugural J. Mario Molina Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, with additional appointments in History and in History of Science and Technology. She is president of the American Association of the History of Medicine and edited the Bulletin of the History of Medicine for 15 years. Her fellowships include the NLM, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Princeton’s Davis Center. Her books include Vernacular Bodies (Oxford, 2004) and Pushback (Seal, 2025), a
history of abortion from antiquity to antibiotics.
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HUMANITIES AND BIOETHICS
GRAND ROUNDS
Bluejays and Footballs: Vernacular Abortion Knowledge in 1950s Baltimore
Mary Fissell, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, November 20, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Large SMD Auditorium 2-6424 & ZOOM
This presentation explores the wide range of abortion options in 1940s and 50s Baltimore, including self-managed abortions (before they were called that!) and those provided by MDs and by informally-trained providers. I argue that a 1940s crackdown had the effect of making abortion more dangerous but not reducing its incidence.
It's Corner Society week! Join us in person or online to hear @maryfissell.bsky.social give a talk titled "Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Rethinking Abortion in Early Modern Anglo-America."
She'll also be giving grand rounds this Thursday!
17.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
SO TRUE!!! its like he lived on Holywell Street for a year!
17.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
17th century map of Barbados with images of animals
New post on #FindTheMidwife today. Sasha Turner talks with us about a 17th century enslaved Barbadian midwife. www.findthemidwife.com/sasha-turner. Thanks Dr. Turner!
12.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to read this! pre-pub congrats!
12.11.2025 13:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Visiting Scholar Dr. Kudus Adebayo will present “When the Caregiver is the Sick Person: Hospital-Based Informal Caregiving and Health Systems in Nigeria" on Nov. 17th at 6pm in Gilman 50 and via zoom webinar.
For more info and to register, visit hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/dr-kudus-ade...
11.11.2025 23:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yeah it's like an onsite department "retreat" = daylong faculty meeting with a few snacks, & a sandwich thrown in.
11.11.2025 13:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Taking bets on Mike Johnson's new excuse for not swearing in Grijalva:
a) it's raining out
b) I can't seem to find a Bible
c) who?
It's not working, Mike, we still remember WHY you are avoiding this.
10.11.2025 13:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of Pushback on a bookshelf
Delighted to hear that Pushback is on the shelf @ www.staygoldbooks.com! If you are in Pittsburgh, be sure to catch this lovely indy bookshop in Regent Square. Not in Pgh? bit.ly/4iwTsoL
08.11.2025 17:04 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Embroidered letter T from a sampler
New post on A is for Abortion! It's about a 15th c French woman who provided reproductive health care (including abortion care) to her community.
06.11.2025 01:13 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats! great stuff.
05.11.2025 12:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Banner for APHA annual conference against blue sky
Beautiful day to have given a talk @ annual @apha.org annual conference! Thanks so much Spirit of 1848 Caucus for inviting me.
04.11.2025 13:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The comments to this article are also interesting
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a bat, with a lightly deranged expression, very tall ears.
This cheerful little fella wishing you a funtastic All Hallows Eve.
(From an account of Cooke's voyage, 1712. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc)
31.10.2025 10:24 — 👍 87 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0
It's a really special joy to get a book in the mail by a former student that started life as a thesis! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10133/ Paul Child shows us eloquently how Jonathan Swift's life was shaped by ill-health and his attempts to combat it. Congrats, Paul!
30.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Attention @sarahebull.bsky.social ! sometimes the Victorian period just cannot be beat....
30.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New posting on #FindTheMidwife! Noelene Jeffers and @d-squared.bsky.social in conversation about the long history of racism and gynecology: www.findthemidwife.com/deirdre-coop...
29.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks, Simon!
27.10.2025 13:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Conference table with copies of Pushback
Honored to be a featured author at #SFP2025 ! Thanks everyone for the welcoming & insightful conversations -- and for buying my book! bit.ly/4iwTsoL
26.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mug and tote bag from U Buffalo gender Institute
Had a wonderful time giving a talk @ubgenderinstitute.bsky.social, lots of great conversations, and they gave me some swag! Thx!
23.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Epitaph on a tyrant by WH Auden
Today’s #poemsontheunderground
@poemsonthetube.bsky.social
23.10.2025 08:55 — 👍 148 🔁 62 💬 1 📌 1
Stitched letter S from a sampler
New post today: Silphium, the ancient abortifacient plant that went extinct from overuse... or did it?
22.10.2025 18:50 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecord essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM
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Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Tech Comm. Health comm. UX. Workplace writing. RHM. Cajun. Sports fanatic. Dr. Martens wearer. She/Her. Posts my own. http://tek-ritr.com
Historian of early modern Europe | Author of Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print (Chicago, 2024) | Co-editor of The Recipes Project | Asst Prof of History at TCU | Taco enthusiast
Medievalist, woodburner, and self-professed nerd about all things.
Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Health (Africa). Researcher on maternal health, childbirth, indigenous med., and health advocacy
early modernist historian researching gender, marriage and law in the Star Chamber
https://feministmiscarriageproject.org/
Promoting intersectional approaches to miscarriage and solidarity across the full spectrum of pregnancy endings. Funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Led by Victoria Browne and Susie Kilshaw.
Interested in law and information with a focus on health and protecting libraries. PhD on abortion information regulation in Ireland.
Sí/í
She/her
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
John 3:16 | Founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation | Women’s Incarceration Expert | Political Commentator | Author: BAD GIRLS (coming soon)(Hachette) | Epidemiologist | Words: @WashingtonPost @ESSENCE #writingcommunity
https://linktr.ee/gabrielleperrymph
The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
History of medicine, disease, and the health sciences & their relation to society. Historical perspectives on contemporary health issues.
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
History PhD - University of Essex - Pregnancy, Midwifery and Childbirth c.1750-1850
Historian of medicine, race, labor, and business at Wesleyan University
MD/PhD hospitalist & historian of science/medicine at UNC. Current research in history of the electronic medical record. #ProudGIM. All views = my own
History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, and recipe books
Blog, remember them? https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Historian of early modern England at University at Buffalo and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research in Undergraduate Education. Happy to talk DH, 1890s bicycling, and the history of Buffalo. Skiing and biking. Opinions my own. She/her.
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
