Journal of the Hist. of Medicine & Allied Sciences

HAGS!!!!!! xoxo <3

We were here for a good time if not a long time! -Olivia <3 (CWRU)

okay ATM moment you're still here and I'm still here, juggling grad school + prelims + life + the impending demise of this beautifully weird online corner of the world. if this is it, it's been a treat to share brilliant work and learn from and with all of you -mk (umn, hstm)

Wondering about prenatal care's evolution and how it shaped popular ideals of pregnancy in the 20th c. US? Dr. Agnes Howard writes about this and more in “Changing Expectation: Prenatal Care and the Creation of Healthy Pregnancy” tinyurl.com/y2dy6tnn #hmed #ICYMI #hstm #WCW

Happy November! Up first - “The Case Against the Doctors” by @KellyODonn (Oct 2020 issue). How did the emerging critical science writing of the 1960s challenge popular deference to the authority of US science and medicine? Find out at tinyurl.com/yjma24r6 #WCW #ICYMI #histmed

And if you really want to "take Charles Atlas by the...hand," follow up by watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show!

#ThrowbackThursday to @lucyclio and @jgolden08’s article “‘Live Clean, Think Clean, and Don't Go to Burlesque Shows’: Charles Atlas as Health Advisor” from our January ‘02 issue. Read it here! bit.ly/3DibUhk

Skeletons: spooky or scientific?☠️ #ThrowbackThursday to @mattlavine’s article “The Early Clinical X-Ray in the United States: Patient Experiences and Public Perceptions.” Read it here! bit.ly/3fYWJlb

Picking up an Rx soon?💊Read this week’s #ThrowbackThursday, @jgreene2’s “What's in a Name? Generics and the Persistence of the Pharmaceutical Brand in American Medicine” from our October ‘11 issue. Read it here! bit.ly/3V7b1QQ

sorry about that, copyright can be tricky! if it's helpful - Chiara Beccalossi, "Female Same-sex Desires: Conceptualizing a Disease in Competing Medical Fields in Nineteenth-century Europe," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 67, Issue 1, January 2012

We’re throwing it back a decade for our #wcw! Join us in revisiting this fantastic article by @chiaraBcc that contributes to our historical understanding of sexuality, "sexual inversion," medicalization, the 19th century...tinyurl.com/2p89shtn #hstm #histsci #histmed #histsex

Fall (and football season) is here! 🍂🏈 #ThrowbackThursday to @bachyns’s "'The Duty of Their Elders' – Doctors, Coaches, and the Framing of Youth Football’s Health Risks, 1950s–1960s," in our January 19 issue. Read it here: bit.ly/3UOWVmV

Today’s #wcw is Merit Ptah, "The First Female Physician," as inspired by Jakub M Kwiecinski’s article in our January 2020 issue...#icymi check it out here: tinyurl.com/5n8rdye2 #histmed #histsci #WomenInSTEM #History

It’s booster and flu shot season!💉#ThrowbackThursday to @MBresalier’s article “Fighting Flu: Military Pathology, Vaccines, and the Conflicted Identity of the 1918–19 Pandemic in Britain” from our January '13 issue. Read it here! bit.ly/3S4Gv8n

#ICYMI here's an advance article from our upcoming issue...thanks to Emily Gordon for an insightful and brilliant piece! #histmed #MedTwitter #histSTM tinyurl.com/2p858brh

Timothy N DeVita’s article “Fighting a Plague: Doctors' Stories of Challenge and Innovation Combatting the AIDS Epidemic in 1980s New York City" shares 8 experiences and highlights the complex - and unique - challenges faced in providing HIV/AIDS care bit.ly/3Rw7l8I