Premodern Healthscaping

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine invites applications for research fellowships in their eponymous topics.

For more details see: www.chstm.org/fellowships

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From Predatory Publishing to the Book Club Scam — G. Geltner In neo-liberal academia, when authors are also expected to be impresarios, marketers, distributors and agents, book club scams will proliferate, alongside predatory publishing.

Our G. Geltner, sharing a few words of warning about a recent experience with publishing-related scams, which seems to be targeting academics, see: guygeltner.net/blog/from-pr...

Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940–1538 | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940–1538

Alice K. Rose, John Robb, Craig Cessford, Sarah A. Inskip, Mary Price and Tamsin C. O’Connell's "Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940–1538," online-before-print is available:

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Colloquia Ceranea

The Colloquia Ceranea conference will take place in a hybrid format at the University of Łódź, Poland from 7-9 May.

History of food and medicine is one of its two thematic focuses.

See the link for more details: www.ceraneum.uni.lodz.pl/colloquia-ce...

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Looking lovely in 3 dimensions! (2 dimensions of 3 dimensions?)

The hard copy is out on the 26th - But if you can’t wait, the e-book has already been released…

Book cover, the text reads: public health in the premodern world: dynamic balances

NEW BOOK: the e-book for “Public Health in the Premodern World” ed. by our G. Geltner with Janna Coomans & Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (@yoelitlalim.bsky.social) is out!

Illustrating the rich history of public health, it shows how communities across the globe defined and pursued health

#histmed #medhst

A conference poster for: Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisclipinary Approaches. The text on the poster can be found by following the link, it does not fit here.

We're hosting a hybrid conference!

"Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches" will explore traditional and recent themes in public health history.

To be notified when registration opens, fill out this form: forms.gle/CSEQLpo75n56...

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A conference poster for: Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisclipinary Approaches. The text on the poster can be found by following the link, it does not fit here.

We're hosting a hybrid conference!

"Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches" will explore traditional and recent themes in public health history.

To be notified when registration opens, fill out this form: forms.gle/CSEQLpo75n56...

#histmed #histstm

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UPCOMING WORKING GROUP: The next Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health meeting is on the 13th Feb. The group will be discussing the University of Kent's (@memsunikent.bsky.social) Dr Suzanna Ivanic's paper"God's Instrument: Bohemian gems, efficacy and medicine".

www.chstm.org/group/object...

Influence of early life environment on later life mortality in catastrophic and non-catastrophic medieval skeletal series from Kutná Hora-Sedlec (Czech Republic, 13th–16th century) This study sought to determine whether the early life environment, broadly characterized by adult lower-limb long bone metrics, is related to later mo…

NEW STUDY from Hana Brzobohatá, Filip Velímský, and Jan Frolík which investigates the skeletal remains at Kutná Hora-Sedlec in Czechia.

The study highlights that adverse living conditions during growth could lead to a shorter adult lifespan and reduced resistance to famine and pathogens.
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NEW Chaper! "Plague Policies in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries. Duplication, Adaptation and Integration" by Claire Weeda (@claireweeda.bsky.social) in "Innovation and Medieval Communities" published by @brepols.net .

Pustules Pustules, Palaeogenetics and Pandemics from Galen to Rhazes: How to do the Early History of Smallpox and Measles Members of the STAMP Research Centre are involved in an exciting interdisciplinary proj...

For more details about the project as a whole, see here: #histmed #sts #smallpox #measles #histsci 4/4: sites.exeter.ac.uk/stamp/2026/0...

Following up with the first 2 adverts for our new @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project on the history of smallpox and measles. The ads are linked below along with a write-up on the project. Both are effectively a fully funded PhD position, for those so inclined. 1/4 bsky.app/profile/fanc...

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#HistSTM #HistMed #UrbanHist folks, this one's for you 🗃️👇

Three chapters are open access if you want a sneak peak 👀

A link would help!

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The hard copy is available from 26 Feb, and chapters 6, 12, 14 are available open access.

Book cover, the text reads: public health in the premodern world: dynamic balances

NEW BOOK: the e-book for “Public Health in the Premodern World” ed. by our G. Geltner with Janna Coomans & Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (@yoelitlalim.bsky.social) is out!

Illustrating the rich history of public health, it shows how communities across the globe defined and pursued health

#histmed #medhst

#histmed #history

Book cover. The text reads: early medieval medicine in Context. Transmission, Translation and Transformation. Edited by Debby Banham, Claire Burridge and Lea Oslan

PUBLICATION:

"Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation" edited by Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, and Lea Olsan.

This text is part of York Medieval Press’s series ‘Health and Healing in the Middle Ages’

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PUBLICATION: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos has published a long, annotated bibliography on Byzantine medicine in Oxford Bibliographies!

This resource looks very useful for both teaching and research.

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CFP: 2027 Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting

The Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology is calling for papers for their Panel "Beyond Gender: Challenging the Cis-Hetero Binary in Ancient Medicine".

Abstracts are due March 9th.

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Santorio Award - CSMBR Santorio Award for Excellence in Research is a scheme designed to support scholarly excellence in intellectual history and to promote the best PhD thesis in history of medicine and science with a focu...

AWARD: "Santorio Award for Excellence in Research" is presented biennially to support scholarly excellence in intellectual history and to promote the best PhD theses in the history of medicine and science, focusing on Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the period 500–1800.

Deadline: 31/3

VivaMente Grant - CSMBR The scheme promotes and sustains the best ideas in intellectual history and the history of ideas with adequate economic and logistic support.

GRANT: "VivaMente: The Garden of Ideas" through The Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance.

Worth: €5,000, plus free use of the Domus Comeliana (worth an additional €2,500 per day), will be offered to the best proposals for a max. a two-day event in Pisa.

Deadline: 28/2

Conference poster: Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches 23–24 July 2026, Virtual and at Monash University Rest of text doesn't fit in alt text, see link here: https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1656

We're hosting a hybrid conference in July!

"Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches" will explore traditional and recent themes converging on public health history.

To be notified when registration opens, fill out this form: forms.gle/5dMU4rNd8d5q...

If you are interested in this upcoming edited volume, you can attend an upcoming session with the Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health on Friday, January 16, 2026, 10:00-11:30 am EST.

For more details and how to join, please see the following link: www.chstm.org/group/object...

The edited volume illustrates the rich history of public health, showing how communities across the globe defined and pursued health in different ways, using the social, intellectual, legal, and physical tools at their disposal.

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Book cover. Text reads: Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances. Edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim.

Watch this space!

"Public Health in the Premodern World" edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (
@yoelitlalim.bsky.social
) is coming out on the 29th with
@oxfordunipress.bsky.social!