Inoculation to prevent smallpox was widely known in Africa and Asia; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu brought the practice to England. We’ll be talking about this precursor to vaccination in The Work of Healing this week.

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This week in The Work of Healing we’re talking about pulse-taking, which has been emblematic of Western medicine for centuries, as in the 17th century Dutch painting.

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This lovely 19th century watercolor depicts Roman surgical tools, the subject of our discussion in The Work of Healing this week.

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On Thursday, September 25th at 3pm, Dominique Tobbell will present to the Class of 1973 Nursing History Lectureship, co-sponsored by the HSMT Fall 2025 colloquia series. Registration is required for this hybrid event. events.jhu.edu/form/class-o...

A hearty congratulations to JHU History of Medicine graduate student Carter Barnett!

Carter has been awarded a Fulbright Award for his research project titled “Beyond Medicine: The Mission Hospitals of Ottoman/Mandatory Palestine, 1850–1950.

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Bandaging was the hallmark of the skilled surgeon for centuries, as this image from a 1714 French book suggests. We’ll be exploring bandaging from antiquity to the 19th century in The Work of Healing this week.

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On Thursday, 9/18 at 3pm, Mia Levenson of JHU will present "Eugenics Congresses, Exhibitions, and the ‘Masque for Race Betterment’" as part of the Fall 2025 HSMT Colloquia series.

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Unfortunately, Thursday's virtual open house on PhD admissions has been canceled. For more information, visit our admissions page here - hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/admissions/

This week in The Work of Healing we’re exploring how skeletal remains might be analyzed by historians as well as archaeologists, including an extraordinary burial from medieval Lund, pictured here.

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This 13th century French silver container held - yes you guessed it — the arm of a saint. This week in The Work of Healing, we are looking at the role of relics in healing.

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Just got my author copy of the NursingClio reader! Please everyone get like 12 copies and support the incredible work of @nursingclio.bsky.social!!

What do material practices, like cupping, shown here in an German 1583 book, tell us about clinical encounters and relations between sufferers and healers? In this 8 week online course “The Work of Healing”, we’ll look at a variety of such practices.

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The deadline has been extended to 8/14! Last chance to register for Term 1 courses!

Register now (deadline is 8/5) for Term 1 online courses: Introduction to the History of Medicine; Science & the practice of medicine; Work of Healing: Medicine & Materiality.

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Have questions about the JHU Online Program in the History of Medicine? We offer non-degree, certificate, and masters tracks. To find out more, join our virtual open house today from 12-1pm EDT hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/pec-events/o...

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Pic: Curator Michael Seminara displays a page of Gabriele Fallopio’s Observationes anatomic (printed in Venice 1561) for a documentary film crew.