History of medicine (broadly defined) 2
More people and organizations focused on the history of "medicine," defined broadly to include historians of various health professions, healing practices, institutions, laws and policies, and so on. Focused on historical methods and expertise, but different types of scholarship are welcome
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@jmgabriel.bsky.social
@tracibrynne.bsky.social
Environmental history, history of reproduction, EJ+RJ. Author of The Settler Sea (2021) & Wastelanding (2015). Currently writing Natural Childbirth: An Environmental History.
@histofsex.bsky.social
Research development by day, history of sex, reproduction, & technology by night. Books at U of Pittsburgh Press, Springer, MIT Press, & Reaktion (future). Black cat, cold takes. NYC. No employer opinions. #histsex #histmed #histtech
@wetdreams-hist.bsky.social
SNSF / CMCSS project on the medical history of wet dreams in Switzerland and France (18th-20th Century), University of Geneva, Institut Éthique Histoire Humanités (https://wetdreams.hypotheses.org/) Posts in French and English Insta: @wetdreams_recherche
@marieallitt.bsky.social
Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker. Medical Humanities. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces. she/her. Views own *Medical Caregiving Narratives of the FWW: Geographies of Care* out now
@stephenpemberton.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, health, illness /educator / professor / music & art curious / always already peripatetic / a work in progress
@debsadac.bsky.social
PhD student at Lancaster University researching the continued use of bloodletting 1750-1900🩸 History of medicine: antiquity & early modern Powered by coffee ☕️ | Owned by dogs 🐶🐶
@xinyiwenhps.bsky.social
• PhDing @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust • Award-winning emerging historian • Working on #EarlyModern natural knowledge and its long reception • Writing a history of the doctrine of signatures • FLS www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen 漫画とアニメ、#青空ごはん部
@aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
American Association for the History of Nursing http://aahn.org #histnursing
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social
The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. Celebrating our centennial, 1925-2025! #histmed
@drabigailboucher.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in English at Aston University. Scholar of nineteenth-century literature and genre fiction. One half of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
@beatrixh.bsky.social
Historian of US health care and immigration; author, Borders of Care
@chrisparsons.bsky.social
Historian of Science, Medicine, and the Environment in colonial North America at Northeastern. Author of A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America (UPenn, 2019).
@drannehanley.bsky.social
#Historian of Medicine & Modern Britain, University of Birmingham | Medical Humanities | UKRI FLF & PI on Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980 | Series Editor @sshmedicine Book Series | https://healthhistorian.wordpress.com | #histSTM #MedHums
@omidvebrahimi.bsky.social
Research Fellow | University of Oxford | Magdalen College. Clinical Psychologist | Public Health | Statistics. I study how people transition into and recover from mental disorders.
@drgregorymorgan.bsky.social
Historian and philosopher of science, especially virology. New Zealand-American. Lover of antiquarian books, and verge pocket watches. Author of Cancer Virus Hunters (JHU Press, 2022) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RRkkWaYAAAAJ
@teresagoeltl.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @UniHeidelberg/EHESS Paris on Slavery, Medical & Legal History in the French Atlantic 🌎 Part of the ERC-project "Fever - Global Histories of (a) Disease"
@waynesoon.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine, China, Taiwan, and Diaspora at the University of Minnesota. Associate Professor. Currently researching on global health insurance histories in East Asia. https://a.co/d/4tahHXR
@emilybstanback.bsky.social
Romanticism / long 18th c (mostly) British literature, disability studies, history of medicine, health humanities, disability & race Associate Prof English + director of minors in Disability Studies / Health & Medical Humanities, U of Southern Mississippi
@saracaputo.bsky.social
History Senior Research Fellow & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge; British Academy PDRF. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy). https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
@duyguyildirim.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Exploring the intersections of knowledge, medicine, and natural history in the early modern Mediterranean. Istanbulite.
@profwehrman.bsky.social
History professor at CMU and author of "The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution" Vaccination is patriotic. New book project(!) tentatively titled: Afterlife and Liberty: New York City’s Doctors’ Riot of 1788
@historyvaccines.bsky.social
A project by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, documenting the history and science of vaccination from before Jenner and after mRNA. epiren.bsky.social <- Editor @HistoryVaccines <- Elsewhere
@christina-c20.bsky.social
Dr Christina Malathouni @LivUniArch, writing Public Mental Health Facilities in Postwar England (Routledge). @BartlettUCL Alumna. Former @c20society.bsky.social caseworker. Also @Christina_C20.
@deyess.bsky.social
Doctorant en histoire de la psychiatrie à l'université Lyon II Lumière. En train de rédiger sa thèse. En dépression, comme la majorité des doctorant.e.s
@lisamalich.bsky.social
Professor for the history of psychology, University of Lübeck, Germany, Research interests: history of knowledge, history of sex & gender, Psychological Humanities, hormones, psychotherapy
@re-histories.bsky.social
Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
@hanspols.bsky.social
Interested in community mental health all over the world, but in particular in Indonesia and Australia. Also chickens. History of medicine.
@hhakosalo.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and health. Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oulu, Visiting Fellow (2023‐24) at the University of Cambridge
@jadevshepherd.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain (crime, psychiatry, family); former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/jadeshepherd.html
@robinrohrer.bsky.social
Historian of medicine (cancer, pediatrics, UK/US). Professor at Seton Hill University. From Washington DC area live in Greensburg PA.
@knittingclio.bsky.social
@beckhistorian.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 they/them 🗃️ PhD in progress at CHSTM @ University of Manchester ♿️ History of white canes in twentieth century Britain 🧑🦯➡️ #DisHist 🌳 I have an egg called Dippy and we go on adventures together
@17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social
PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
@sscottgraham.bsky.social
Currently: on fellowship for a global study of anatomical museums. Usually: Writing about health, ethics, and technology at UT-Austin. https://sscottgraham.com
@susanrensing.bsky.social
Historian of science, medicine, & gender | Health Equity | Reproductive Justice | Bluegrass & Tallgrass
@surliertexan.bsky.social
Taking the scenic route through life. Formerly: PhD in the history of science @Harvard. Currently: Foraging in the woods, tarot, & other historical shenanigans Tarot readings, historical research, writing & editing, tutoring, & consulting at drturners.com
@ruthbeecher.bsky.social
Historian (mainly of medicine and child abuse), sea swimmer, greyhound guardian from the People’s Republic of Cork
@katiesnow.bsky.social
Researching bodies and bodily experiences across the medical humanities. Book on breasts in Georgian satirical prints forthcoming from Rutgers ✨🍈🍈 Wellcome postdoc in English @ University College Dublin, Drinking Cultures 🥃
@doravargha.bsky.social
Prof. of History and Medical Humanities at @exeter.ac.uk , @humboldtuni.bsky.social & MPIWG.bsky.social . Berlin. Connecting Three Worlds, Socialist Medicine, After the End. Occasional stress baking.
@antiquatedmeds.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies @unlv.bsky.social. Author #MastersofHealth: slavery & racial science in #MedEd @uncpress.bsky.social. Editor #Medicine&Healing in the Age of Slavery @lsupress.bsky.social. views mine
@sarialtschuler.bsky.social
Associate Prof., Director of Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern. Author: The Medical Imagination (Penn Press, 2018). Coeditor: Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU Press, 2023). All opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer.
@profrichardson.bsky.social
Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University More about my work at https://scholar.harvard.edu/srichard/
@helenking.bsky.social
Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
@sauthoff.bsky.social
Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology. Assistant Professor at HKBU. News junkie with a journalism past. https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
@eobrien.bsky.social
Faculty at UCLA, Department of History Historian of medicine, gender, race, and Mexico Book: Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675879/surgery-and-salvation/
@adamquinn.bsky.social
History PhD candidate @ University of Oregon and union member (AFT 3544). Writing a labor & environmental history of the computer industry. Comms & organizing with EWOC.
@mxmcadam.bsky.social
Executive Editor for Humanities and History of STM at Johns Hopkins University Press
@elianders.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and public health, singer, podcast enthusiast, Lecturer at Princeton
@igorstudart.bsky.social
MD | Psychiatrist @uspoficial | Phenomenology and History of Psychiatry
@judithweisenfeld.com
Scholar of African American religious history and religion and race in America Director: @xroadproj.bsky.social Website: https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/ Most recent book: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU 2025)
@majben.bsky.social
Historian at C2DH (University of Luxembourg) Mainly publishing on the history of psychiatry and the history of the financial place in Luxembourg
@queerstorian.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
@angelamcshane.bsky.social
Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design Head of Research Wellcome Collection Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
@madraspondy.bsky.social
History ABD at Duke Writing a diss on consumer spaces and material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry 🍷🖼️🌴 This year I don't have summer funding. :( Consider supporting my studies here: https://ko-fi.com/confettura
@durhamimh.bsky.social
Improving health by understanding hidden experience. Supported by Wellcome. durham.ac.uk/imh medhumsplatform.org
@kristinwh0.bsky.social
Historian of sex, gender and medicine 🪴 she/her Horror fan ⚰️ tattoo connoisseur 👻 mother of cats (Salem and Binx) 🐈⬛♥️ #histmed #genderhistory #histsex 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
@emyang.bsky.social
Philosophically-bent, historian/childhood studies PhD, Wellcome Trust Fellow, history of medicine, material culture/moral babies & children/amateur thespian/tea snob Based in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at University of Leeds
@hagenilda.bsky.social
cultural historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | welsh | precarious | palaeographer | ocd | neurodivergent | dogs | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons | cofounder MadCovid | she/her agent: Fabienne @kiagency.bsky.social www.ki-agency.co.uk
@harbottlestores.bsky.social
- Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine/Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Author (as Jennifer Wallis) -
@himeshmehta.bsky.social
PhD Student at the University of Warwick - Researching the History of the Psychedelic Renaissance in 20th/21st Century Britain
@zoe-dubus.bsky.social
English account ! French PhD in history of medicine. Post-doc at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Psychotropic drugs, psychedelics, medicine, 19th - 21st centuries. Totally woke Website: https://dubuszoe.wordpress.com
@wine18thcirl.bsky.social
Food historian. Independent Researcher. Drinking studies, material culture, gastronomy. Author of "Honest Claret": The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland's Favourite Wine (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022).
@lilachambers.bsky.social
Historian of Race, Slavery, Commodification, Consumption, Intoxication in the Early Modern Atlantic | Research Fellow @CaiusCollege
@dorotadias.bsky.social
anthropologist/historian: alcohol, drinking culture, excess, addiction, gender. PI in the NCN_PL funded projects www.womenandalcohol.net and www.boundariesofdrinking.pl Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS Warsaw
@drjamesbrown.bsky.social
Lapsed early modern historian, now professional services at the University of Sheffield. Enthusiastic about: intoxicants and the supernatural; the digital humanities; public engagement, KE, and impact; project and programme management; folk horror; 📷; 🏋🏻.
@jonathansjones.bsky.social
Historian at James Madison University | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | Author of Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans & America’s First Opioid Crisis (preorder: https://tinyurl.com/opiumslavery) | proud #firstgen | jonathansjones.net
@hanblythe.bsky.social
Research Fellow at LSHTM, affiliated at Birkbeck. Health humanities and history of mental health, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
@bshsnews.bsky.social
The British Society for the History of Science is Britain's largest learned society devoted to #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci. Handled by Comms Officer: Alexander Stoeger
@drdouglassmall.bsky.social
Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Website: https://douglassmall.com
@drhick.bsky.social
Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
@milkwknives.bsky.social
Drugs & Alcohol Historian | Research Fellow @lshtm.bsky.social | "Kicking the Habit" - Addictive Sponsorship in British Sport | Managing Editor @History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals
@jmgabriel.bsky.social
History of medicine, pharma, public health, drugs. Sometimes IP, bioethics, critical med ed, pedagogies of care. Gardening. N Florida. a small axe Papers - https://tinyurl.com/288f3phs Book Med Monopoly: IP and Origins of Modern Pharma Industry