Thomas Schlich will give the Keynote Lecture for the workshop “Contextualizing Transplantation: Medicine, Society, and Culture”, at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, on April 16, 2024.
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On April 11, 2024, at the SSoM book launch Dr Abraham Fuks discussed Janina Wellmann's new book, "Biological Motion A History of Life" (Princeton University University Press).
Thomas Schlich spoke about the introduction of elective surgery as a new concept in modern medicine and a decisive step in the history of surgery. The presentation was part of the “Swiss Seminar in the History of Medicine” which in 2023/24 is devoted to the theme “Therapeutic Approaches”. It took place at the “Chair for Medical Humanities” in Fribourg, Switzerland, March 21, 2024. The title is “The Best Therapeutic Option? ‘Elective’ Interventions and the Rise of Modern Surgery (1860s-1920s).” 2024.
Sebestian Kroupa gave a talk “On Bezoars and Other Healing Stones in Manila: Making Medical Knowledge Across Indo-Pacific Worlds, c.1700” part of Indian Ocean World Centre seminar series on 20 March, 3-5pm in Rm 116, Peterson Hall. See here for more information and abstract...
On March 14, Thomas Schlich gave a talk about the role of statistics in the rise of modern surgery under the title “Safe Surgery: Counting and the Rise of Surgery, 18th-20th centuries”. The talk will be at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin for the seminar series “Research Therapy” of the Workgroup “Practices of Validation”.
On March 7, 2024, Sahar Sadjadi, gave a lecture "Reseach on Sensitive Topics: The Case of an Ethnographic Study of Children and Gender Clinics in the US," at the University of Ottawa at the Laboratory for Engaged Research. https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-social-sciences/events-all/research-sensitive-topics-case-ethnographic-study-children-gender-clinics-us
Annmarie Adams presented “Race and the Medical Museum: The Case of Maude Abbott,” at the College Art Association annual conference on 14 February 2024 in Chicago. https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/18863.
Thomas Schlich gave a talk on February 19 entitled ’Against Human Vivisection’ – Criticism of Surgery in Britain, the US, and Germany, 1880s-1914, part of the webinar series of The Groningen Centre for Health and Humanities and the Centre for Historical Studies. All seminars are 16:00-17:00 Dutch time. Online sessions are hosted on Google Meet. Please send an e-mail to James Kennaway (James.kennaway [at] rug.nl) to receive the link. More info here: https://www.historyhealthhealing.nl/groningen-webinar-series-on-the-history-of-surgery/
New article by Jonah Campbell, Alberto Cambrosio, Mark Basik, “Histology Agnosticism: Infra-Molecularizing Disease?” in press in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2024).
New paper by Anna K. Swartz and Phoebe Friesen: "The First Smart Pill: Digital Revolution or Last Gasp?" published in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/917930
East China Normal University Press has announced the Chinese translation of SSoM Professor Todd Meyers's book, The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy (U Washington Press, 2013) forthcoming later this year.
SSoM Professor and Acting Chair Todd Meyers discussed his recent book, All That Was Not Her, at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics on January 25.
New publication in Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology by Arjun Byu and Phoebe Friesen on a controversial diagnosis - Making up monsters, redirecting blame: An examination of excited delirium. Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/916217
Annmarie Adams reviewed two new books on COVID and architecture for the Journal of Design History https://academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jdh/epad051/752...
Annmarie Adams is one of three co-editors for an upcoming special issue of the Canadian Journal of Health History on mothering, medicine, and health. Abstracts due 31 January. CFP: https://www.utpjournals.press/journals/cjhh/call-for-papers
Annmarie Adams is Chair of this year’s committee to name the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award. This annual prize is given by the Society of Architectural Historians to recognize the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar. Link: https://www.sah.org/jobs-and-careers/sah-awards/publication-awards
New article in Aeon by Phoebe Friesen explores whether psychedelics can teach us something about psychosis? See here: https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-psychedelic-science-teach-psychiatry-about-psychosis
On the evening of January 11, 2024, at a book launch hosted by McGill University's Maude Abbott Medical Museum, SSoM professor Annmarie Adams, along with Alexandre Klein (U Ottawa), discussed Martin Robert's new book, "Cette science nécessaire: Dissections humaines et formation médicale au Québec" (McGill-Queen's University Press). Photos: Peter Gossage
In fall 2023, Sahar Sadjadi delivered a keynote lecture, "Doing Justice: The Study of Life and Practice of Science," at Carleton University. This lecture was organized by the Faculty of Science to honour the legacy of Henrietta Lacks.
https://science.carleton.ca/cu-events/hela-celebration/
Congratulations to Alberto Cambrosio who was elected as one of the Royal Society of Canada’s New fellow to the Academy of Arts and Humanities. 
https://reporter.mcgill.ca/nineteen-mcgill-researchers-honoured-by-the- royal-society-of-canada/
On November 1, 2023, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Redpath Museum Amphitheatre, Gordon Guyatt, MD, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact at McMaster University, delivered the 2023 Osler Lectureship, “How evidence-based medicine has – and has not – changed the world.” Ahead of his visit, Todd Meyers, PhD, from the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, spoke with Dr. Guyatt about his pioneering work in evidence-based medicine.
In conversation with Gordon Guyatt - Health e-News
