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 science, technology, and society to undergraduate students. In addition to speaking about her fascinating research, Dr. Labruto also shares several of her pedagogical tools and tips for teaching students in STS and the medical humanities. 

As always, we hope you enjoy listening! But we especially hope that you enjoy this episode, as it is Antoine and Christy’s last one as co-hosts. “For the Medical Record” will take a break before re-starting with new co-hosts from the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine community. Thank you for the engagement, listens, and encouragement! 

PEOPLE AND RESOURCES MENTIONED  

Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Map

Kamna Balhara (you can listen to our “For the Medical Record” episode with Kamna Balhara and Nate Irvin here) 

Franz Boas 

Immanuel Wallerstein 

Slum Dwellers International 

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) 

Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (1998) 

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (2007) 

Howard Zinn 

Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness in Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1986) 

Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 (1986)

Londa Schiebinger, "Exotic abortifacients: the global politics of plants in the 18th century” (2000) 

Jerry Burgess 

Baltimore Compost Collective

The South Baltimore Community Land Trust 

Black Yield Institute 

Marvin Hayes 

Shashawnda Campbell 

Meleny Thomas 

Greg Sawtell 

Eric Jackson 

Nicole Fabricant 

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 Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society.” Join us in our discussions about why studying injuries is important, and how scholars from many diverse fields can contribute to injury studies. Thank you for listening! 

PEOPLE AND GROUPS MENTIONED  

Webpage for “Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society” 

Bloomberg Center for Injury Research and Policy 

Graham Mooney (listen to his “For the Medical Record” episode here) 

Arwen Mohun 

Iro Filippaki 

RACE (Reparative Arts in Community Engagement) Conference 

Tendon Magazine’s “Injuries” Issue 

Susan Baker 

To join the Injury Studies Research Network, email [email protected]  

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, to a massacre in nineteenth-century Colorado, to stories about the First Crusade in the eleventh century. In addition to her own books, Lauren helps us build a fantastic reading list of novels touching on many of the themes of this podcast. Thank you for listening, and happy reading!

PEOPLE AND WORKS MENTIONED  

Division of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University 

Kendrick Lamar “i” Music Video  

Loren Ludwig 

Lauren Small, The Eye Begins to See (2023) 

Lauren Small, The Hanging of Ruben Ashford (2022) 

Lauren Small, Wolf Constellation (2018) 

Samuel K. Roberts, Infectious Fear (2009) 

Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) 

Lauren Small, Choke Creek (2009) 

American Association for the History of Medicine 2024 Conference 

Rita Charon 

Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy (1990s) 

Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009) 

Barry Unsworth 

Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders (2001) 

Lauren Groff, Matrix (2021) 

Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet (2020) 

Philip Roth, Nemesis (2010) 

Pat Barker, Toby’s Room (2012) 

John Singer Sargent, The Four Doctors (1906) 

Anton Chekhov 

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 the hospital” (the emergency room), which exists at the nexus of the hospital and the community, and the nexus of society and health. Thanks for listening! 

RESOURCES AND PEOPLE MENTIONED  

Drawing Blood podcast episode, “Morphine Addiction, Decadence & Degeneration, and Fin-de-Siècle Paris” 

To see some winners of the creative arts submission competition, go here and here. 

Tendon, the literary and visual arts magazine from the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine 

Health Humanities Fellowship 

RACE Conference (Reparative Arts and Community Engagement), October 5 – 8, 2023 

Dr. Jeremy Greene 

Latoya Ruby Frazier 

Kondwani Fidel 

Devin Allen 

Dr. Gabor David Kelen 

Medicine, Science, and the Humanities Program 

Beth Macy, Dopesick 

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.”