For the Medical Record

This is a bonus episode of For the Medical Record! Mia is flying solo to talk with Paul William Child , Professor of English at Sam Houston State University and alum of Johns Hopkins University's Online Master's Program in the History of Medicine. Child joins the pod to chat about his new book, The Dean Disordered: Jonathan Swift and Humoral Medicine , which grew out of his thesis project as well...

This week, on For the Medical Record, Richard and Mia chat with Benjamin Breen , Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Cruz. Breen talks about the paper he presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series , "The James Siblings in the Age of Quantification." They discuss the James family and their phi...

Welcome back to For the Medical Record! This week, Richard and Mia sit down with Dominique Tobbell , Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing and director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing History of Inquiry at the University of Virginia. Professor Tobbell recently spoke at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing about her recently published book, Dr. Nurse: Science, Po...

After a short hiatus for the summer, we're back with another episode of For the Medical Record! This week, Richard and Mia talk with Randall Packard, professor emeritus in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University about his new book, Fevered Cities: A History of Dengue Epidemics . We talk about why dengue fever is such an interesting disease to track the history of and how changes to glo...

Welcome back to another episode of For the Medical Record! This week, Richard and Mia talk with Bryan Doerries, artistic director of Theater of War Productions. They discuss Bryan's recent production of A Refutation , where actors dramatically read documents related to the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, which was performed at several locations around the DC/Baltimore area, including J...

It's summer, which means scholars are heading to the archives! Looking down the barrel at their own upcoming research trips, Richard and Mia talk with Michael Seminara, the curator for the historical collection at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. They chat with him about curating the collection, putting up exhibitions, and what he wished scholars knew about working with a...

In this episode, Richard and Mia talk with Mary Fissell , the Inaugural J. Mario Molina Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, about her new book, " Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion. " This is a great book and Mary is such a wealth of knowledge about this history. Related Works: Jennifer Wright, Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and R...

In this (not-so-mini) episode, Richard and Mia chat with Tufts University history professor, Alisha Rankin, about the paper she presented for the 29th Hideyo Ngouchi Lecture and as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series . Her paper, "The Skillful Surgeon: Surgical Expertise and Contested Authority in Early Modern Europe," was abou...

In this episode, Richard and Mia are joined by Lan Li , professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Online Program in the History of Medicine, to talk about their new book, Body Maps: Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine .   Works referenced in the episode: Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over C...

In this episode, Richard and Mia talk to Julia Cummiskey , a professor of the history of medicine right here at Johns Hopkins University. She chats with us about her new book, Virus Research in 20th-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global . For more about the Uganda Virus Research Institute, visit https://www.uvri.go.ug/ For more about the Rakai Health Sciences Program, visit https://www.rhsp.org...

In this mini episode, Richard and Mia talk to Bharat Venkat , a professor of anthropology at UCLA, about the research he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series and his upcoming book project, "Swelter: A History of Our Bodies in a Warming World."    Related links for Bharat's work: UCLA Heat Lab " Carceral heat exposure as har...

We are SO back!! After a brief hiatus, For the Medical Record is back with new hosts, Richard Del Rio and Mia Levenson.  For the Medical Record is a Podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associated Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson . First episode drops on March 31 and new episodes will be out every two week...

Join us in our conversation with Nicole Labruto , anthropologist and director of the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities undergraduate major here at Johns Hopkins. In this episode, we discuss both Dr. Labruto’s own anthropological research – on sugar cane, science, the environment, and society – as well as the importance of offering an interdisciplinary education in the medical humanities and sc...

In this mini episode, we speak with Matthew Klingle about the paper that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series , titled "'Wear and Tear': An Ecology of Diabetes, Stress, and Discrimination."

Join us in our conversation with Wendy Shields , Senior Scientist at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Alexander Parry , PhD candidate in History of Medicine. These two are part of a wider research network and team spearheading the field of injury studies, in part represented by a hybrid, internationally focused conference in March 2024 called “ Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Appr...

In this mini episode, we talk to Aishah Scott about the research that she presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series , titled "Trickledown Respectability Politics and HIV/AIDS in Black America."

Join us in our conversation with Lauren Small, writer, novelist, and academic here at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In this episode, we discuss the roles, purposes, and benefits of narrative medicine, particularly in relation to the AfterWards program that Lauren runs. Our discussion of Lauren’s own historical fiction works takes us from an influenza-stricken Baltimore of the early twentieth century...

In this mini episode, we talk to Pablo F. Gómez about the research that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series , titled "Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic."

Join us in our conversation with Nathan Irvin and Kamna Balhara , both physicians and professors in the Emergency Medicine Department here at Johns Hopkins. In this episode, we hear about the phenomenal work that these two are doing spearheading Health Humanities at Hopkins Emergency Medicine (H3EM) . In particular, we discuss why humanities are vital for physicians working at the “front door of t...

In this mini episode, we talk to Joseph Leonardo Vignone about the research that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology's colloquium series , titled "Remembering Bodies: A Medieval Islamic History of Human Enhancement."

In this mini episode, we speak to  Graham Mooney  about the paper that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series titled “How Public Health Makes 'Behavior': Alcohol Programs in Post World War II Baltimore.”

In this mini episode, we speak to Zubin Mistry about the paper that he presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series titled “The Problem of Monastic Gynecology: Reproduction, Religion and Medicine in Western Europe before 1100.”

In this mini episode, we speak to Rana Hogarth about the paper that she presented at the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series titled “The Science of Skin Color: Miscegenation and the Eugenic Gaze in the Early Twentieth Century.”

Join us in our conversation with Jolien Gijbels , a Fulbright and Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) visiting scholar in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode, primarily we discuss finding the patient’s voice in the archive, and how listening to the patient and other marginalized groups is vital to the history of medicine and to the medi...

In this mini episode, we talk to Eram Alam about the research that she presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology's colloquium series , titled "The Logistical Body: Reflections on Medicine and Movement."