American Association for the History of Medicine

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! 🗃️

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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

And that’s a wrap on #AAHM2025! Our annual meetings are the result of the hard, volunteer work of SO MANY PEOPLE. And my favorite thing about @aahmhistmed.bsky.social is the people. Generous, passionate, smart, engaged. Grateful for you all! See you next year in Buffalo!

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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I went to an #aahm2025 panel yesterday focusing on the book Do Less Harm and all I have to say is ORDER THIS BOOK. Blown away by how much this book is needed.

A photo taken from the back of a banquet hall. Two white women are standing on a stage addressing an audience. On the slide projector on the left, it reads “The George Rosen Prize winner, Nursing Clio, accepted on behalf of the editorial collective by Jaqueline Antonovich and Sarah Handley-Cousins”

Profoundly honored to be part of @nursingclio.bsky.social. Joining NC (over a decade ago!)has turned out to be one of the most momentous decisions in my life. I’m deeply grateful to @aahmhistmed.bsky.social for the recognition, one that belongs to every writer & editor that has contributed.

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.

A conference room scene showing an awards ceremony. On stage, two women stand at a podium, one speaking and one standing to the side. A large screen behind them displays a slide that reads: “The 2025 George Rosen Prize Winner: Nursing Clio. Accepted on behalf of the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective by Jacqueline Antonovich and Sarah Handley-Cousins.”

I'm deeply honored and humbled that Nursing Clio has been awarded the 2025 George Rosen Prize at #AAHM2025. As I said at the podium, this is not my award — it belongs to the collective. It’s for everyone who has ever written for Nursing Clio, edited for us, and especially for our readers. Thank you!

AAHM Asia network breakfast meeting. Great to meet everyone! @aahmhistmed.bsky.social

Welcome to Bluesky, @aahmhistmed.bsky.social!

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This slide from Ilana Löwy’s Garrison lecture resonates in the history of medicine, but also across all historical disciplines. #aahm2025

The centennial Garrison Lecture, offered by scholar Ilana Löwy, entitled “What is a Diagnosis? A Tribute to Ludwig Fleck and Charles Rosenberg.” #aahm2025

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There's still time to register to watch tonight's Fielding H. Garrison Lecture, delivered by Ilana Löwy, on Zoom! The lecture starts at 6 pm est. Register here:

a green and gold image with birthday hats. in the center is the AAHM logo. In the logo, the muse Clio is wearing a birthday hat and holding a birthday cake. the text says Happy Birthday, We're celebrating our 100th birthday at our Annual Meeting in Boston!

If you're here with us in Boston for #aahm2025, you'd better be planning to join us at the Garrison reception after Ilana Löwy's lecture, because it's time to ✨ celebrate✨ AAHM's 100th birthday! 🍾 🥂 🥳