For the Medical Record

Join us in our conversation with science journalist and Johns Hopkins History of Medicine PhD student Jessica Leigh Hester about her recent book Sewer (Bloomsbury, 2022). We discuss the medical, social, and structural intricacies of sewers – and sewer stewardship – as well as Jessica’s PhD research on graverobbing and the display of human  remains. Thanks for listening!  SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTI...

In this mini episode, we talk to Courtney Thompson about the research that she presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology's colloquium series , titled "A Calculus of Compassion: Emotion, Medicine, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century America."

Join us in our conversation with medical student Walker Magrath about his recent work as a scholarly concentrator in the history of medicine. In 2022, Walker published an article in Annals of Internal Medicine titled “ The Fall of the Nation’s First Gender-Affirming Surgery Clinic .” In this episode, we discuss the history of this gender-affirming surgery clinic here at Johns Hopkins, how studying...

In this mini episode, we talk to Alexandre White about his new book Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease (Stanford University Press, 2023). Dr. White's book launch was part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology's colloquium series .

Join us in our conversation with Caleb Alexander , MD, MS, and Jason Chernesky , PhD, about the Opioid Industry Documents Archive . Both based at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Alexander is a practicing internist and epidemiologist, and Dr. Chernesky is a historian of medicine and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Opioid Industry Research Postdoctoral Fellow. Taking the OIDA's...

In our fourth mini episode, we talk to Dominique Tobbell about the lecture that she presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series , titled “'Mom and Tots': Nursing and the Politics of Community Health in 1960s' Detroit.” 

Join us in our conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson , Lauren Rubin , and Alexandre (Sasha) White about their leadership of the Mellon-funded Black Beyond Data project. Johnson is a historian and digital humanist at Hopkins, Rubin is the Director of Development at the St. Francis Neighborhood Center in Baltimore, and White is in the departments of the history of medicine and sociology at Hopkins...

In our third mini episode, we talk to Beatrix Hoffman about the lecture that she presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series , titled “Borders of Care: A History of Immigration, Migration and the Right to Health Care.” 

Join us in our conversation with Jeremy Greene , MD PhD. Jeremy is the William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, as well as the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine (which sponsors this podcast) and the Johns Hopkins Department of the History of Medicine. In this episode, we talk with Jeremy about the symbiotic role of medicine...

In our second mini episode, we talk to Mary Fissell about the lecture that she presented as part of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology’s colloquium series , titled “Long Before Roe: A Victorian Abortion Case.” This special colloquium presentation was given on the occasion of Mary Fissell’s endowment as the J. Mario Molina Endowed Professorship in the His...

Join us in our conversation with Lan Li, PhD – a scholar of global East Asian medicine, acupuncture, sensation, and histories of science – in which we discuss how to take your work seriously without taking yourself too seriously, as well as thinking about situated, embodied practices. Using Lan’s varied career as a historian, media producer, and research director, we think through different method...

This is our first installment in a series of mini episodes of “For the Medical Record” that will focus on the scholars invited to present at the Colloquia of the Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology . In this episode, we talked to Oluwatoyin Oduntan and Jonathan Roberts about their paper “Decolonizing Africa and the Origins of Modern Medicine," which was prese...

Join us in our conversation with Carolyn Sufrin , MD, PhD, in which we discuss how “reproduction is everything,” particularly in her research and advocacy around the reproductive wellness of incarcerated individuals. Working on the now and thinking through what a future system may look like, we explore with Carolyn: “what does it mean to care in a space of punishment?”   SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTI...

Welcome to For the Medical Record! Full episodes coming soon! For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Postdoctoral Fellows Christy Slobogin and Antoine Johnson. In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. W...