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.”

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 medical humanities. We also talk medical consent, radical gynecological surgery and difficult births, and digital humanities methods such as text mining. Thanks for listening! 

SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 

The Chesney Medical Archives 

Roy Porter, “The Patient’s View: Doing Medical History from Below” (1985) 

Marisa Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2016) 

Black Beyond Data’s episode of “For the Medical Record” 

Chanelle Delameillieure