Posts Tagged ‘history of medicine’
IN/OUT, bi-annual conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine
SSHM 2026: IN/OUT Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling…
Read MoreLezing Mieneke te Hennepe: (On)gezien, ontkleed, ontleed: Anatomie van de vrouw.
17 oktober 2025, 17:00 Foyer Rijksmuseum Boerhaave In deze lezing bespreekt conservator Mieneke te Hennepe de fascinerende wereld van anatomische modellen en prenten van het vrouwelijk lichaam. Wat weten we…
Read MoreConnecting Medical and Maritime History: Mia Vrijens awarded Warnsinck fellowship at Het Scheepvaartmuseum
In early 2025 Mia Vrijens was awarded the Prof J.C.M. Warnsinck Fellowship at Het Scheepvaartmuseum for her project Health at Sea: Merchant Marine Nursing, second half 20th century. The project…
Read MorePostdoc history of global north-south public health cooperation (UU)
Utrecht University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC Consolidator Grant project “Fighting Pandemics from Below: Global North-South Public Health Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa,…
Read MoreHHH Column: Feminine Forever vs. “the way to a new life phase” – menopause in the 1960s
The HHH column is a monthly blog in which History, Health & Healing members share their thoughts on research, current affairs, or anything to do with medical history. Each edition…
Read MoreFlorence Nightingale Instituut (FNI) verder als Museum voor de Verpleegkunde
Het Florence Nightingale Instituut heeft een nieuwe naam, nieuwe look en nieuwe website. Voortaan gaat het FNI verder als Museum voor de Verpleegkunde. Daarmee keert het museum terug naar haar…
Read MoreNew book with connection to Dutch massage-physician Johann Mezger
A new study traces the origins of osteopathy and chiropractic, linking them to a seminal yet overlooked 19th-century European therapeutical discourse called “mechanical medicine”. During the 19th century demand for…
Read MoreCfp: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine (Submission deadline 1 November)
On 22 and 23 January 2026 Fenneke Sysling and Caroline Schep are organising a conference focused on ethical practices in medical research and treatment in the colonial and postcolonial context.…
Read MoreObject Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 – online workshop
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 University of Birmingham Via Zoom, Friday 5 December 2025 In recent years, material culture has expanded its reach through the humanities and social…
Read MoreVacature Promovendus ‘Een Sociale Geschiedenis van Hiv en Aids in Nederland’ (UvA)
De Universiteit van Amsterdam zoekt een promovendus die de sociale effecten van de hiv-aidsepidemie sinds de jaren tachtig historisch wil onderzoeken via interviews met direct betrokkenen (oral history). Hoewel over…
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