The McNeil Center & Penn Press will inaugurate a new prize this summer for an exceptional dissertation in early American studies. The award includes a book contract, research funds, and a manuscript workshop at the Center. Applications open August 1!

What is a Colonial Archive?
November 9-10: A participatory symposium centered on the challenges of working with materials entangled with colonialism's myriad histories
bit.ly/3FGZEZu Whitney Humanities Center YaleMacMillan Center

Cover image now available for our forthcoming book 'Understanding Baby Loss'. Publication date 21 November. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526163189/ Manchester University Press The BSA BSA Death, Dying and Bereavement Study Group ASDS

'Promising Future, Complex Past: #AI & the Legacy of Physiognomy,' a new NLM online exhibition, presents the history of physiognomy (the discredited practice of assessing mental character based on physical attributes) & its influence on computer science. loom.ly/dkauk9M

We are happy to announce the temporary exhibition Surgeons' Hall Museums ‘In Safe Hands: The Battle for Midwifery’ is now online as a Digital Exhibition! For those unable to make it to Edinburgh to see this in person, we are bringing the exhibition to you! archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk

#SundayReads : Anthony Grafton on Renaissance polymath Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s occult insights into the structure of the universe: publicdomainreview.org/essay/agrippa-… #magic

A small thing in the moment but a welcome one: today's mail brought the latest issue of History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, a special issue on commerce and psychedelics. It looks great. Lucas Richert

So delighted to get this today! Congrats Kathleen Crowther ! It’s a book we *need* now. Subtle and beautifully written.

We’re hiring!! Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Open Rank T/TT position in Science and Technology Studies: Community Engagement and Community-Based Research careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/4941…

Do you research the cultural meanings of movement? Do you have 500-1500 words to say about it? Then send us a pitch for our new series edited by the fabulous Natalia Mehlman Petrzela!!! nursingclio.org/write-for-us/

Oooh it's out, I've been waiting for this! Get ready to amend your #histmed syllabi, this article by Carolyn Roberts breaks new methodological ground for our field. h/t Sam Schotland - bit.ly/48LA8Qe

Mandrakes alert! Tara Nummedal will share her archival finds @ the CHSTM Objects, Images & Spaces of Health WG on Fri Oct 13th @ 11 EST. Alisha Rankin start with convo w/ a comment. Please do join us! Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histsci #materialculture #histknow

'Mezzotint Engraving and the Making of Race'

How have prints shaped our understanding of bodies & our understanding of race as a bodily attribute?

Explore how mezzotint engraving contributed to racial theories between the 16th and 18th centuries.

🎟️:pmc.ac/uf2ow

YJBM's Sept 2023 issue on Big Data has been published on PubMed Central. Read the entire issue here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/issues/446…

cover art by Peter Harris

JOB!
Ass. Professor in the History of the Life Sciences, UW Madison
'...outside the United States or Europe, Indigenous or non-western knowledge systems, transimperial/transnational/global life science... especially...South Asia or East Asia'
#histstm jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…

New collection alert: the Migs Woodside papers are now open to researchers! Read a new blog post from Julie Golia re: Woodside's substance abuse advocacy work as the founder and President of the Children of Alcoholics Foundation. nypl.org/blog/2023/09/2…

TOMORROW: Take a tour through the many facets of Civil War medicine seen through the collections of the Library. Learn about unique treasures – from a remarkable album of Army Medical Museum patient photographs by surgeon Reed Bontecou and more!

Tune in: go.loc.gov/LZzC50PLL4h

How did 'the scientific community' come into existence, and why does it work? 💭

Lorraine Daston’s new book 'Rivals' attempts to answer this question, offering a historical overview of cooperations from the Republic of Letters to the World Meteorological Organization.

🔗bit.ly/3ZhNWNN

#HistSci

Have you submitted your paper, panel, roundtable, workshop, or poster proposal for #AAHM2024 yet? We want to see you in Kansas City! Proposals are due Oct 2.

It's #NationalVideoGamesDay 🎮

We have some video games on our website as part of Visualising Medical Heritage 😀

Build a body, fight some germs, or explore police surgery cases of Victorian Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Find them here: tinyurl.com/4d2zk6hx

#Heritage #Gaming #HistMed