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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · 11d

Tuberkulose in Red Dead Redemption 2 und mehr. Medical Humanities treffen Games Studies treffen Kulturgeschichte. Toll, dass es so etwas gibt!

Arno Görgen @pachuki.bsky.social · Jun 30

Pew! Pew! Hust!

Kritische Controller erobern den Wilden Westen, verprügeln Nazis und reichen Anträge ein.

Hier die neue Folge:
kritische-controller.letscast.fm/episode/die-...

Die linke und die rechte Hand der Schwindsucht

Kaltstart. Die kritischen Controller rebooten. In den vergangenen zwei Wochen sind Eugen und Arno nicht nur in Arbeit untergegangen, und haben eine gesamte Aufnahme verloren, nein, sie haben sich auch...

kritische-controller.letscast.fm

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KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme @neuengamme-mem.bsky.social · 17d

Call for papers #CfP Neue Perspektiven auf das Thema KZ-Krankenreviere sollen im Februar 2026 auf einem Workshop der Zeitschrift „Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung“ vorgestellt und diskutiert werden. Dazu werden Beitragende gesucht:

Call for Papers - Krankenreviere in den Konzentrationslagern

Neue Perspektiven auf das Thema KZ-Krankenreviere sollen im Februar 2026 auf einem Workshop der Zeitschrift „Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung“ vorgestellt und diskutiert ...

www.gedenkstaetten-hamburg.de

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · 24d

Beautiful resource, registration takes literally only two minutes. Thanks for this!

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks to all who're getting the word out about this new narrative of the 2nd Plague Pandemic! It presents the "new paradigm" for framing the late medieval pandemic, re-reading 700-year-old narratives & now adding in new data from Biology & Archaeology. A new history for our new age of pandemics. 🧪🗃️

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25d

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks to all who're getting the word out about this new narrative of the 2nd Plague Pandemic! It presents the "new paradigm" for framing the late medieval pandemic, re-reading 700-year-old narratives & now adding in new data from Biology & Archaeology. A new history for our new age of pandemics. 🧪🗃️

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25d

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available

Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death

teams-medieval.org

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · Sep 10

If you (or people you know) are interested in applying for a Marie Curie postdoc in 2026, my research centre is offering three-week research fellowships for you to come here and develop your ideas.

More details are on our website - or get in touch with me.

🗃️

www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/in...

Calls and open positions

www.sdu.dk

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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · Sep 9

Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham

x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · Sep 3

New pub: The dentist Jenny Cohen (1905–1976) fled Nazi persecution, was eventually allowed to practice in Sweden and from 1947 became a health policy administrator in East Germany. How did she fashion her own biography and how is she remembered in different contexts?

biblioscout.net/article/99.1...

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Kelly S. O'Donnell @kellyodonn.bsky.social · Aug 30

"It took her nearly two decades to find a permanent academic position. She found occasional work as a visiting professor, filling in for someone on leave for a year or two. She earned grants to fund her research... but she was often living on unemployment benefits"

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...

Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History

www.nytimes.com

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · Aug 12

⏰ #histstm #medhums Postdoc ⏰
3-year position in Public Engagement at Medical Museion Copenhagen in a research project on personalized medicine
employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

Postdoc in Public Engagement around Personalized Medicine (Let's Get Personal)

employment.ku.dk

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Michael Barany @mbarany.com · Jul 2

Excited for the launch of the ESHS/HSS 2026 Joint Meeting call for proposals, presented by Simone Turchetti and Sam Robinson at the General Assembly of the #ICHST2025
Hope to see you in Edinburgh in a year's time! hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...

2025 HSS Annual Meeting - History of Science Society

The 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. The conference theme will be Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences.

hssonline.org

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Jul 22

Over the past 2 weeks, our Scientific Officers walked you through the key aspects of your ERC grant application, in our brand new "ERC Classes" videos.

Now the complete playlist is available to view.

Watch and learn how to best prepare your proposal for ERC research funding 🎥 👉 bit.ly/3GJjwiO

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Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · Jul 20

While #ISHPSSB2025 is underway, I'd just like to draw attention to an opportunity at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at for international researchers: senior & early-career fellowships at the new #Vienna Center for Advanced Studies #ViCAS vicas.univie.ac.at

Deadline: Sept 1, 2025. Please apply!

Center for Advanced Studies

vicas.univie.ac.at

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Jul 16

3-year Postdoc in philosophy of biology w/ @lucielaplane.bsky.social in Paris on cell lineages; interdisciplinary project w/ mathematicians & biologists. Conceptually-minded historians & social scientists also welcome to apply. Project start in early 2026. Application opens soon #HPS #hpbio #STS

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · Jul 16

Field trip to Dresden with our seminar ‚Exhibiting Science’ with students from @hhu.de and colleagues from art & global & medical history. Visited Grünes Gewölbe, Hygienemuseum, Ethnologisches Museum. Great group, interdisciplinary, learned a lot myself!

Group of students and professors on stairs

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · Jul 3

Also includes my chapter "Zahnmedizin im Nationalsozialismus. Täter, Verfolgte, Phasen der Aufarbeitung", looking at biographies of perpetrators (Hermann Euler, Willi Schatz), persecuted persons (Julius Misch, Jenny Cohen) and historiography of Nazi dentistry #histdent

DOI: doi.org/10.11588/hei...

Zahnmedizin im Nationalsozialismus. Täter, Verfolgte, Phasen der Aufarbeitung | heiBOOKS

doi.org

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hot off the press and open access:

"Medizin im Nationalsozialismus. Stand, Perspektiven und Aufgaben medizinhistorischer Lehre und Forschung" ed. by Christian Sammer and Natalie Rath

Special Focus on how knowledge of Nazi medicine / health professions can be utilized in med school teaching

Medizin im Nationalsozialismus: Stand, Perspektiven und Aufgaben medizinhistorischer Lehre und Forschung | heiBOOKS

books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · Jul 2

Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors!

We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine.

Please share widely!

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Bruno J. Strasser @brunostrasser.bsky.social · Jul 2

Our book is out! The surprising history of masks worn by plague doctors, factory workers, trench soldier, hospital nurses, and the rest of us.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

@yalepress.bsky.social
@yalebooks.bsky.socuial

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Arno Görgen @pachuki.bsky.social · Jun 30

Pew! Pew! Hust!

Kritische Controller erobern den Wilden Westen, verprügeln Nazis und reichen Anträge ein.

Hier die neue Folge:
kritische-controller.letscast.fm/episode/die-...

Die linke und die rechte Hand der Schwindsucht

Kaltstart. Die kritischen Controller rebooten. In den vergangenen zwei Wochen sind Eugen und Arno nicht nur in Arbeit untergegangen, und haben eine gesamte Aufnahme verloren, nein, sie haben sich auch...

kritische-controller.letscast.fm

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · Jun 24

How was STD prevention publicized in the Great Exhibition for Healthcare, Social Welfare and Physical Exercise in @duesseldorf.bsky.social in 1926 (largest exhibition of the Weimar Republic!)? What techniques for health promotion were used? Who did the exhibition not talk about? #histmed #GeSoLei

Zur Visualisierung von „Unaussprechlichem“: Geschlechtskrankheiten auf der „Großen Ausstellung für Gesundheitspflege, soziale Fürsorge und Leibesübungen“ (GeSoLei) 1926

Die GeSoLei (Große Ausstellung für Gesundheitspflege, soziale Fürsorge und Leibesübungen) in Düsseldorf im Jahr 1926 war nicht nur eine der größten Ausstellungen der Weimarer Republik. Im Zentrum stand die oft visuelle Vermittlung von …

www.springermedizin.de

Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · Jun 17

🚨Salaried PhD position in history of medicine at the University of Zurich with the wonderful @fcondrau.bsky.social 🚨 (ignore the 60%, this is just the Swiss system, and amounts to a very respectable pay)
#histmed #histstm

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Assistant History of Medicine

The History of Medicine Group within the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Zurich, led by Professor Flurin Condrau, seek...

jobs.uzh.ch

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · Jun 17

Dora Gerson (1884–1941) received her MD in 1911. She was one of the first women to practice in venero-dermatology, urology and social hygiene in Germany. From 1933, she was persecuted because of her Jewish heritage and ended her own life in 1941. #histmed

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Unsichtbar in der fachkulturellen Erinnerung der Medizin? Die als jüdisch verfolgte Dresdener Urologin und Venerologin Dora Gerson (1884–1941) - Die Urologie

The history of urology is traditionally considered to be male-dominated. However, the field has never been exclusively “male medicine”—neither in terms of patients nor medical staff. This article high...

link.springer.com

Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · Jun 4

#booksky

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · May 16

This has already been recommended by a colleague irl. Awesome that it’s open access!

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · May 16

Includes a chapter by me on Rudolf Virchow as a social medicine icon, along with many other chapters that are better and more important.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · May 16

Includes a chapter by me on Rudolf Virchow as a social medicine icon, along with many other chapters that are better and more important.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · May 12

Special Issue CFP!

"The Intersection of Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry" - a special issue put together by our National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry.

See the attached CFP and let me know if you have any questions!

CFP: The Intersection of Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry

Special Issue Information: Spring 2026 Publication
Submissions must include:
1. The full name of each author;
2. E-mail address, mailing address, and phone number for each author;
3. Degrees and institutional affiliation (if appropriate) of each author.
Submissions should:
• Be between 1500 and 3000 words in length, including an abstract of no more than 250 words;
• List 3-10 keywords after the abstract. These terms represent the key topics presented in the article;
• Use inclusive language, including gender-neutral pronouns, unless referring to specific persons;
• Sufficiently de-identify any descriptions of patients and/or clinical encounters;
• Include disclosure of any conflicts of interest;
• Confirm with a statement that the work is original and that it has been authored entirely by submitting authors and their research team;
• Designate a corresponding author;
• Follow the American Medical Association Manual of Style, 11th Edition, for text and references.

We welcome full-length manuscripts addressing ethical and humanities-based approaches to dentistry and related health professions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• The history of dentistry
• Dentistry in media and popular culture
• Dentistry and the arts/literature
• Religious/spiritual/cultural understanding of the mouth/teeth/dentistry
• Intersections of oral health and emotions
• Dentistry and whole patient care (the biopsychosocial approach)
• Integrating health humanities and ethics in dental education
• Submissions Open: May 1, 2025
• Submission Deadline: November 1, 2025
Submission Information:
Papers should be submitted to editor@acd.org. Late manuscripts will not be considered for publication in this special issue but may be considered for a subsequent issue. Please put the corresponding author’s last name and “JACD NCHED” in the subject line.

We look forward to receiving your original and innovative contributions!

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · May 8

Did you know that in 1938, 2/3 of doctors in Vienna were considered Jewish according to Nazi laws and were banned from practicing medicine?

Hot off the press: chapter "Traditionsbruch und Zivilisationsbruch. Urologie und Medizin in Wien und Österreich, 1938–1945" #histmed #urology

Traditionsbruch und Zivilisationsbruch. Urologie und Medizin in Wien und Österreich, 1938–1945

Die anhaltende Relevanz der Medizin im Nationalsozialismus zeigt exemplarisch der Ende 2023 veröffentlichte Report der Lancet commission on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust (Czech et al. 2023)...

link.springer.com

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · May 1

@danielalink.bsky.social Wir sprachen doch neulich darüber, dass so ein Workshop toll wäre

Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen @belsenmemorial.bsky.social · Apr 30

Wie kann man auf Vorurteile, diskriminierende und menschenverachtende Sprüche angemessen reagieren? Darum geht es in unserem Workshop: „Parolen und Populismus? - Haltung zeigen!“ am 14. Mai 2025 in Hannover.

Mehr zum Workshop sowie Infos zur Anmeldung hier:
🔗 www.stiftung-ng.de/de/aktuell/v...

Workshopteilnehmende. Dazu der Text: Workshop: Parolen und Populismus? Haltung zeigen! Wann: 14. Mai 2025, 10:00 - 16:30 Uhr. Wo: Stadtteilzentrum Stöcken, Eichsfelder Straße 101, 30419 Hannover.

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Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen @belsenmemorial.bsky.social · Apr 30

Wie kann man auf Vorurteile, diskriminierende und menschenverachtende Sprüche angemessen reagieren? Darum geht es in unserem Workshop: „Parolen und Populismus? - Haltung zeigen!“ am 14. Mai 2025 in Hannover.

Mehr zum Workshop sowie Infos zur Anmeldung hier:
🔗 www.stiftung-ng.de/de/aktuell/v...

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Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social · Apr 12

I always enjoy @99pi.org and learn something. Highly recommend this episode in particular, now I‘m curious about the book!

99% Invisible @99pi.org · Apr 8

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social uncovers how the world’s deadliest curable disease still thrives—and why everything, from cowboy hats to colonial borders, traces back to tuberculosis.

Everything Is Tuberculosis

You may know John Green as a Youtuber, a podcaster, or the mega best-selling author of Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. His latest book is called Everything Is Tuberculosis. It’s a deep-dive into one of the oldest and deadliest threats to humankind.

99percentinvisible.org

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