News and Notes
January 19, 2012
“Experiment and Good Sense Must Direct You”: the Social Relations of Health, Healing and Knowledge-Making in Eighteenth-Century Plantation America.
Claire Gherini is a student at Johns Hopkins University. She received a 2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellowship for her research that links the formal, printed medical ideas theorizing the relationship between illness, season, and climate that emerged among physicians in the eighteenth century to the experimentation with new treatments for illness that took place on the ground in plantations in South Carolina, Virginia, and the British West Indies.
December 13, 2011
Call for Papers: 47th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar
The 47th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on April 20-21, 2011. Abstracts (200 words) of papers submitted for presentation are due by Wednesday February 1st, 2012 at 5pm.
December 8, 2011
Fellow Update: Karin Eckholm
Karin Eckholm, 2008-2009 Dissertation Research Fellow, has sent us an update on her activities since leaving PACHS.
December 6, 2011
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December 6, 2011
Call for Papers: Environmentalism, Health, and Policy: New Perspectives
The Department of History of Science & Technology at Johns Hopkins University invites proposals that explore new themes and perspectives on environmental problems, both past and present.
