Historian of science & medicine, Tufts prof, mom. Author of _The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, & the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science_.
Somerville, MA
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My book is at the @UChicagoPress warehouse! One good thing happened in 2020! Official publication isn't until Jan, but if you order directly from the press you might get an early peek. 20% discount with the code UCPHPS. So much gratitude to so many! 🥰press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
Agree! It was a great meeting, and the Michigan Union was a fantastic venue. Huge congratulations (and thanks) to everyone involved with the planning.
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We'd love to hear your ideas, #AAHM2023! Eds @jgreene2, @gabrielasotolav, and @ProfRankin will be near the @JHUPress table at the book exhibit tomorrow morning after the plenary. Stop by and see us!
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"Once Bitten: Mosquito-Borne Malariotherapy & the Emergence of Ecological Malariology within/beyond Imp. Britain" by Tom Quick makes a case for the central role that malariotherapy played in the dev of an ecological approach to malaria research/control: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/8….
So excited about this excellent forum on abortion post-Dobbs - in front of the pay wall and extremely teachable. Also check out the 🔥new @bhm cover design!
In our Spring issue @KellyODonn and Naomi Rogers guest edit a Forum with an all-star lineup examining the hist of abortion in the wake of the Dobbs decision – now in front of the paywall: muse.jhu.edu/issue/50257 #histmed
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So fortunate to be an editor @BHMjournal with these two. Both are such generous and exciting scholars. Great session with Harvard’s History of Medicine Working Group. We will be back at it at the @aahmhistmed in May! @ProfRankin @jgreene2
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Just in time for the Superbowl: superb long-form piece in @NewYorker by @ingfeichen featuring historical work of @TheNeuroTimes and Emily Harrison on what we choose to forget we have known about head injuries in sports:
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Oh wow wow wow, I am so excited to read this (and use it in teaching!). Congratulations, Cathy! @rouge1767
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My new book arrives from the printers at UChicagoPress for order today! Bilingual critical edition of 17thC French midwife, Marie Baudoin's treatise on childbirth, plus microhistorical introduction.
ALT Book cover for Marie Baudoin, The Art of Childbirth showing a 17th century French woman lying in bed. A midwife is handing her swaddled newborn to her. An older child is interacting with a visitor dressed in a blue cloak in the foreground and a number of other visitors are shown on the other side of the bed.
Huge congrats to my fellow @BHMjournal editor @jgreene2 as well as Victor and Gabriella for their truly wonderful article.
The Price/Webster Prize, given in recognition of excellence in an article published in @IsisJournal, goes to @jgreene2, Victor Braitberg & Gabriella Maya Bernadett for their article on IT & health systems research among the Papago Tribe of AZ. #HSS22
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The Rainger Prize, awarded by @hssonline's Earth & Environment Forum, goes to @claire_i_webb, whose article "Gaze-Scaling: Planets as Islands in Exobiologists' Imaginaries" examines the use of the "island lab" metaphor in early exobiology research. #HSS22
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The Reingold Prize, recognizing an original grad student essay on the history of science & its cultural influences, goes to Alexander Clayton who wrote about the "learned pig" & debates over intelligence in Enlightenment London.
More on the pig 🐷-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learne…
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This year's Pauly Prize, recognizing the best 1st book on #histSTM in the Americas, goes to Allison Margaret Bigelow for her book, Mining Language, which explores the cross-cultural origins of mining knowledge in the 16th & 17th c. Iberian world.
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The Levinson Prize is awarded biennially for a book in the history of the life sciences & natural history. This year's winner is Jennifer Bangham, whose book (Blood Relations) examines the history of blood transfusions in 20th c. Britain.
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Congratulations to Marga! What a wonderful project.
The Davis Prize, honoring #histSTM books aimed at a wider public, goes to Marga Vicedo's Intelligent Love, which explores post-WWII debates b/w experts, parents & activists about the causes of autism.
@katiehafner reviewed it for @washingtonpost: washingtonpost.com/outlook/i…
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The winner of the Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, @beansvelocci, notes that this is first time the award has gone to a trans scholar or an article on transness.
They emphasize the relevance of this choice given ongoing persecution of trans people in the US. #HSS22
Completely thrilled to see @taranummedal win this honor. So much careful and detailed historical work (and storytelling!) went into this project, and it is already a major hit with my students. So glad to see it receiving the praise it deserves. Congrats, Tara!
The Pfizer Award, honoring an outstanding book in #histSTM, goes to @taranummedal for Anna Zieglerin & the Lion’s Blood: a well-researched story of alchemy, #histmed & the occult in the Holy Roman Empire.
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Just logged onto the #emroctranscribes sign-up sheet and claimed my first page. So great to see all these names! I'm going with pg 113 of @RCPmuseum MS 502. It starts with a Rx for "Hipp Gowte" which uses black soap & aqua vita, let the fun begin! #histmed #materialhealthtech
