Join us in our conversation with Nicole Labruto, anthropologist and director of the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities undergraduate major here at Johns Hopkins. In this episode, we discuss both Dr. Labruto’s own anthropological research – on sugar cane, science, the environment, and society – as well as the importance of offering an interdisciplinary education in the medical humanities and science, technology, and society to undergraduate students. In addition to speaking about her...

In this mini episode, we speak with Matthew Klingle about the paper that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, titled "'Wear and Tear': An Ecology of Diabetes, Stress, and Discrimination."

Join us in our conversation with Wendy Shields, Senior Scientist at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Alexander Parry, PhD candidate in History of Medicine. These two are part of a wider research network and team spearheading the field of injuries studies, in part represented by a hybrid, internationally focused conference in March 2024 called “Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society.” Join us in our discussions about why studying injuries is...

In this mini episode, we talk to Aishah Scott about the research that she presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, titled "Trickledown Respectability Politics and HIV/AIDS in Black America."

Join us in our conversation with Lauren Small, writer, novelist, and academic here at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In this episode, we discuss the roles, purposes, and benefits of narrative medicine, particularly in relation to the AfterWards program that Lauren runs. Our discussion of Lauren’s own historical fiction works takes us from an influenza-stricken Baltimore of the early twentieth century, to a massacre in nineteenth-century Colorado, to stories about the First Crusade in the...

In this mini episode, we talk to Pablo F. Gómez about the research that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, titled "Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic."

Join us in our conversation with Nathan Irvin and Kamna Balhara, both physicians and professors in the Emergency Medicine Department here at Johns Hopkins. In this episode, we hear about the phenomenal work that these two are doing spearheading Health Humanities at Hopkins Emergency Medicine (H3EM). In particular, we discuss why humanities are vital for physicians working at the “front door of the hospital” (the emergency room), which exists at the nexus of the hospital and the community, and...

In this mini episode, we talk to Joseph Leonardo Vignone about the research that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series, titled "Remembering Bodies: A Medieval Islamic History of Human Enhancement."

In this mini episode, we speak to Graham Mooney about the paper that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series titled “How Public Health Makes 'Behavior': Alcohol Programs in Post World War II Baltimore.”

In this mini episode, we speak to Zubin Mistry about the paper that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series titled “The Problem of Monastic Gynecology: Reproduction, Religion and Medicine in Western Europe before 1100.”

In this mini episode, we speak to Rana Hogarth about the paper that she presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series titled “The Science of Skin Color: Miscegenation and the Eugenic Gaze in the Early Twentieth Century.”

Join us in our conversation with Jolien Gijbels, a Fulbright and Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) visiting scholar in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode, primarily we discuss finding the patient’s voice in the archive, and how listening to the patient and other marginalized groups is vital to the history of medicine and to the medical humanities. We also talk medical consent, radical gynecological surgery and difficult births,...

In this mini episode, we talk to Eram Alam about the research that she presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology's colloquium series, titled "The Logistical Body: Reflections on Medicine and Movement."

Join us in our conversation with science journalist and Johns Hopkins History of Medicine PhD student Jessica Leigh Hester about her recent book Sewer (Bloomsbury, 2022). We discuss the medical, social, and structural intricacies of sewers – and sewer stewardship – as well as Jessica’s PhD research on graverobbing and the display of human  remains. Thanks for listening!  SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED  Jessica Leigh Hester, Mundane Madness, Atlas Obscura (2018)  Eric Grundhauser, “Most of...

In this mini episode, we talk to Courtney Thompson about the research that she presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology's colloquium series, titled "A Calculus of Compassion: Emotion, Medicine, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century America."

Join us in our conversation with medical student Walker Magrath about his recent work as a scholarly concentrator in the history of medicine. In 2022, Walker published an article in Annals of Internal Medicine titled “The Fall of the Nation’s First Gender-Affirming Surgery Clinic.” In this episode, we discuss the history of this gender-affirming surgery clinic here at Johns Hopkins, how studying the medical humanities and medical history can improve medical education and practice, and the...

In this mini episode, we talk to Alexandre White about his new book Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease (Stanford University Press, 2023). Dr. White's book launch was part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology's colloquium series.

Join us in our conversation with Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, and Jason Chernesky, PhD, about the Opioid Industry Documents Archive. Both based at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Alexander is a practicing internist and epidemiologist, and Dr. Chernesky is a historian of medicine and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Opioid Industry Research Postdoctoral Fellow. Taking the OIDA's collection of documents as the starting point, we discuss commercial determinants of health,...

In our fourth mini episode, we talk to Dominique Tobbell about the lecture that she presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series, titled “'Mom and Tots': Nursing and the Politics of Community Health in 1960s' Detroit.” 

Join us in our conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson, Lauren Rubin, and Alexandre (Sasha) White about their leadership of the Mellon-funded Black Beyond Data project. Johnson is a historian and digital humanist at Hopkins, Rubin is the Director of Development at the St. Francis Neighborhood Center in Baltimore, and White is in the departments of the history of medicine and sociology at Hopkins. Alongside their colleague Kim Gallon, these individuals lead the project in its re-evaluation of...

In our third mini episode, we talk to Beatrix Hoffman about the lecture that she presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series, titled “Borders of Care: A History of Immigration, Migration and the Right to Health Care.” 

Join us in our conversation with Jeremy Greene, MD PhD. Jeremy is the William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, as well as the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine (which sponsors this podcast) and the Johns Hopkins Department of the History of Medicine. In this episode, we talk with Jeremy about the symbiotic role of medicine and the humanities from his perspective as an MD PhD; about how history can “reshape the limits...

In our second mini episode, we talk to Mary Fissell about the lecture that she presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series, titled “Long Before Roe: A Victorian Abortion Case.” This special colloquium presentation was given on the occasion of Mary Fissell’s endowment as the J. Mario Molina Endowed Professorship in the History of Medicine. 

Join us in our conversation with Lan Li, PhD – a scholar of global East Asian medicine, acupuncture, sensation, and histories of science – in which we discuss how to take your work seriously without taking yourself too seriously, as well as thinking about situated, embodied practices. Using Lan’s varied career as a historian, media producer, and research director, we think through different methods for disseminating research, medical knowledge, and medical histories.  SOURCES AND SCHOLARS...