American Association for the History of Medicine

"History of Medicine Week events schedule, October 6-10. Five events listed: Monday - Communicating Beyond the Academy panel and AIDS talk; Tuesday - Federal Regulations podcast and Graduate Degree workshop; Wednesday - Teaching tips session; Thursday - Immigration and Health discussion; Friday - Trans & Intersex Health talk. Visit histmed.org/history-of-medicine-week for details."Retry

Starting today! Join us at 1 pm ET/12 pm CT for the first event of History of Medicine week! Registration links are in your email. Misplaced it? Didn't get it? Email us! histmed.org/history-of-m... #HistMedWeek #histmed

A promotional flyer for History of Medicine Week Events, October 6-10th. The flyer has a light gray background with dark text and red highlighting for emphasis. It displays five event boxes: Monday, 11 ET/12 CT: "Communicating Beyond the Academy: Historians, the Media, and the Public" with a bonus event at 9 ET/10 CT titled "Faith, Hope, and Science in the Time of AIDS - A Talk by Dr. Catherine Burns" hosted by the University of Nebraska. Tuesday: "Perspectives on Science" podcast release about "Federal Regulations: Progressive Era and Beyond" with hashtag #histdrugregs, plus a bonus at 3 ET/2 CT called "Surviving the Graduate Degree." Wednesday, 2 ET/3 CT: "Teaching as the University Burns: Practical Tips" with a note to check AAHM email for the link. Thursday, 1 ET/2 CT: "Medicine Crossing Borders: Immigration and Health." Friday, 2 ET/3 CT: "Trans & Intersex Health From Past to Future" with a note to check AAHM email for the link. At the bottom, italicized text states "Click on titles for registration links. For details and updates visit the website." The website URL www.histmed.org/history-of-medicine-week/ appears at the bottom.

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...

AAHM Virtual Coworking Hours flyer featuring a spiral-bound notepad design. The main text reads "AAHM Virtual Coworking Hours" with an illustration of hands writing. The flyer advertises weekly virtual writing accountability sessions on Fridays beginning 9/12 from 3-6 p.m. Eastern on Zoom at http://bit.ly/3VVWBT. It invites AAHM members seeking camaraderie while working on academic projects like seminar papers, dissertations, applications, abstracts, or books-in-progress. The sessions include goal setting, muted timed work periods, and end-of-session check-ins for reflection. Contact information shows aahmstudents.slack.com and https://histmed.org/committee-on-student-affairs/. The design uses blue and cream colors with notebook paper styling and small clips along the top edge.

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." 🗃️

AAHM-Gale Digital Humanities Fellowships The AAHM announces three non-residential Digital Humanities scholarships funded by Gale. The AAHM-Gale Non-Residential Fellowship will support research or teaching projects that rely on Gale Primary S...

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!

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Lucy Zheng from Duke University School of Medicine received an honorable mention for the Osler Medal with her essay, "Everyone Wants Our Cotton Pickers": Forced Labor, Unwilling Sterilization, and African American Mental Health at the Goldsboro State Hospital, 1910-1955. Congrats, Lucy!

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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! 🗃️

Collage of six book covers

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!

Me (a white woman with blonde hair in a green skirt and top) and my student Bella (a white woman with dark hair and a grey pencil skirt) in front of her poster titled "Behind the Bars: Anonymity in Patient Imagery in the British Medical Journal, 1870-1930".

Smiling photo of three panelists seated at a table - Mary Hunter, Christy Slobogin, and Fiona Johnstone.

A table with several books and two printed galleys of books, including _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain_

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!

Six book covers rotating clockwise: Looking through the Speculum, Soda Science, Starved for Light, Maraña, Borders of Care, Anatomy of a Train Wreck.

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

AAHM Reading List 2025 - Manchester University Press To mark this year’s American Association for the History of Medicine Conference from the 1-4 May, we’ve put together a reading list of essential titles in the History of Medicine from Manchester…

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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.

Apologies, I should have included the alt-text! Thank you for adding.