The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth invites applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor in Latin American Medical Humanities. The position is open to specializations in any historical period and in any Spanish-speaking region of Latin America and/or the Caribbean, including hemispheric, transatlantic, and transpacific comparative approaches. Applicants for this position should demonstrate how…
Application Deadline: NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2025
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce applications are open to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine. The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10,000 to support research using the NLM collection. Spanning eleven centuries, the NLM collection…
CFP: The Senses in High Medieval to Early Modern Medicine
Stenton Symposium 2024, University of Reading Proposals of up to 200 words and a short bio are due Friday 23 August. Send to Dr. Ruth Salter (r.j.salter@reading.ac.uk)
Application Deadline: Assistant Professor – History of Medicine
Baylor University seeks an Assistant Professor of History of Medicine to start August 2025. Details for this position can be found at apply.interfolio.com/148215. Position Description The Baylor University History Department seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position in the History of Medicine at the Assistant Professor level, effective August 2025. The successful candidate will hold a doctorate…
Application Deadline: Edward Worth Library Research Fellowship
The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering two research fellowships (duration one month), to be held in 2024, to encourage research relevant to its collections. The Worth Library is a collection of c. 4,300 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Edward Worth (1676-1733), an early eighteenth-century Dublin physician. The collection is particularly strong in…
CFP Deadline: Health and Medicine in Colonial Latin America: Power, race and gender through texts and contexts, politics and practices (MLA 2025)
Proposals exploring power, racial, and gender asymmetries in the cultural construction of beliefs and practices related to health and medicine in colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract & short bio by March 15 to kstolle@emory.edu Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
CFP Deadline: Rethinking Body in Medical Humanities
deadline for submissions: April 25, 2024 full name / name of organization: Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies contact email: editors@ellids.com CALL FOR PAPERS: Rethinking Body in Medical Humanities Having its coinage in the context of history of science by George Sarton in 1948, Medical Humanities has grown into an exciting area of interdisciplinary inquiry that allows…
Application Deadline: Postdoctoral Fellowship, History of Medicine and Medical Humanities
The Department of the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (CMHSM), Johns Hopkins University, seeks applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in history of medicine and medical humanities. The fellow will have teaching and administrative responsibilities in the department’s online program in the history of medicine (OPHOM) which offers…
Seminar: “Medical writer’s quibbles about genitourinary patients in early modern England”
8th February 2024 – Dr Jennifer Evans (University of Hertfordshire) – Registration details to follow. TITLE: ‘‘He was ashamed to let me know of it, and thought to have got cured otherwise without my knowledge’: Medical writer’s quibbles about genitourinary patients in early modern England.’ ABSTRACT: This seminar considers the extent to which disorders affecting…
Santorio Fellowship for Medical Humanities and Science Application Deadline
The scheme is designed to support young scholars willing to join CSMBR events. It runs every two years and is named after the Italian physician Santorio Santori (1561-1636), who introduced the quantitative method to medicine and is considered the father of quantitative experimental physiology.
