In their October 6, 2024, issue, The Shanghai Review of Books published a feature interview with faculty member Todd Meyers about the Chinese translation of his book, The Clinic and Elsewhere. Link: 听听
Phoebe Friesen and colleagues have been awarded a Discovery Award from the Wellcome Trust. Under the leadership of Emilie Cloatre, they will explore how unproven, disproven, or misleading health-related claims are regulated in contemporary states; examine the socio-political implications of current strategies; and imagine and propose alternative legal models. For more, see
SSoM departmental postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Hugo Rueda Ram铆ez, has joined an advisory group of international scholars working with the (formerly known as Museum Volkenkunde), invited to address the legacies of ethnographic museums today.
Listen to Annmarie Adams in The 不良研究所 Journal of Medicine (MJM) Podcast Series, MJM MedTalks听
Annmarie Adams published a paper about her own biographical relationship with her research subject, Maude Abbott, in 鈥淢aude & Me.鈥� Women and Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now. Edited by Dana Arnold. London: Routledge, 42-58.
Faculty member Todd Meyers talks about the grief crisis hidden in the opioid crisis in a recent Op-Ed in La Presse (July 30, 2024), "La crise des surdose cache une crise de deuils".
Thomas Schlich provided historical background for an article published in the MIT Technology Review on AI in the operating room.听
Annmarie Adams published 鈥淪hift Work: The Hospital in Histories of Architecture and Medicine,鈥� Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (2): 134鈥�147.
Faculty member and acting department chair Todd Meyers has joined the journal Sciences Sociales et Sant茅 as a scientific correspondent.
Annmarie Adams published a chapter on Montreal鈥檚 Scottish architects 鈥溾�橤lad of your help鈥�: Scottish Architects in Montreal, 1860-1940,鈥� Montreal's Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole, eds Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland, Don Nerbas. University of Toronto Press, 279-311.听
Thomas Schlich discussed his book project 鈥淎 History of Modern Surgery鈥� at the Research Colloquium of the Institute for the History and Ethics in Medicine of the Charit茅 in Berlin, Germany on May 21, 2024.
On May 21, 2024, Thomas Schlich commented on a paper by Isabela Dornelas entitled 鈥淔ollow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fibres鈥� at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin Germany.
Faculty member Phoebe Friesen's article "A Dangerous Diagnosis: How "Excited Delirium" Shapes Police Perception" appeared in the May 21, 2024 issue of The Conversation.
Annmarie Adams curated the exhibition 鈥淩eading Abbott,鈥� for the Osler Library, on through November 2024.
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The 2024 edition of the has been published with special mention of SSoM's longstanding contributions to health humanities teaching and research!
Faculty member Phoebe Friesen gave a keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy of Psychiatry, May 6, 2024, in New York City.
Annmarie Adams published the following two book reviews:听
鈥淭he Architecture and Landscape of Health: A Historical Perspective on Therapeutic Places 1790鈥�1940,鈥� by Julie Collins, London, Routledge, 2020, Fabrications, 1鈥�3.
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鈥淲hen Eero Met His Match,鈥� by Eva Hagberg, Panorama: Journal of the Associations of Historians of American Art,
Thomas Schlich gave the Keynote Lecture for the workshop 鈥淐ontextualizing Transplantation: Medicine, Society, and Culture鈥�, at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, on April 16, 2024.听
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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 鈥淪wiss Seminar in the History of Medicine鈥� which in 2023/24 is devoted to the theme 鈥淭herapeutic Approaches鈥�. It took place at the 鈥淐hair for Medical Humanities鈥� in Fribourg, Switzerland, March 21, 2024. The title is 鈥淭he Best Therapeutic Option? 鈥楨lective鈥� Interventions and the Rise of Modern Surgery (1860s-1920s).鈥� 2024.
Sebestian Kroupa gave a talk 鈥淥n Bezoars and Other Healing Stones in Manila: Making Medical Knowledge Across Indo-Pacific Worlds, c.1700鈥� part of Indian Ocean World Centre seminar series on 20 March, 3-5pm in Rm 116, Peterson Hall.
On March 14, Thomas Schlich gave a talk about the role of statistics in the rise of modern surgery under the title 鈥淪afe Surgery: Counting and the Rise of Surgery, 18th-20th centuries鈥�. The talk will be at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin for the seminar series 鈥淩esearch Therapy鈥� of the Workgroup 鈥淧ractices of Validation鈥�.
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.听
Annmarie Adams presented 鈥淩ace and the Medical Museum: The Case of Maude Abbott,鈥� at the College Art Association annual conference on 14 February 2024 in Chicago. .
Thomas Schlich gave a talk on February 19 entitled 鈥橝gainst Human Vivisection鈥� 鈥� 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.听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:
New article by听Jonah Campbell, Alberto Cambrosio, Mark Basik, 鈥淗istology Agnosticism: Infra-Molecularizing Disease?鈥� 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:
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.听听
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:
Annmarie Adams reviewed two new books on COVID and architecture for the Journal of Design History听
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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.听 CFP:
Annmarie Adams is Chair of this year鈥檚 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:
New article in Aeon by Phoebe Friesen explores whether psychedelics can teach us something about psychosis? See here:
On the evening of January 11, 2024, at a book launch hosted by 不良研究所's Maude Abbott Medical Museum, SSoM professor Annmarie Adams, along with Alexandre Klein (U Ottawa), discussed Martin Robert's new book, "Cette science n茅cessaire: Dissections humaines et formation m茅dicale au Qu茅bec" (不良研究所-Queen's University Press). Photos: Peter Gossage听 听
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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.
Congratulations to Alberto Cambrosio who was elected as one of the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 New fellow to the Academy of Arts听and Humanities.听
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On November 1, 2023, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Redpath Museum Amphitheatre, Gordon Guyatt, MD, 顿颈蝉迟颈苍驳耻颈蝉丑别诲鈥�Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact at McMaster University, delivered the 2023 Osler Lectureship, 鈥淗ow evidence-based medicine has 鈥� and has not 鈥� changed the world.鈥� 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.
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