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. Alongside their colleague Kim Gallon, these individuals lead the project in its re-evaluation of data through the digital humanities. In this episode, we talk about how data can be used by and for communities, the Black digital humanities, and how Black humanity can help to see data in a different, radical way.  

SOURCES, PROJECTS, AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 

St. Francis Neighborhood Center 

Sayeed Choudhury 

Covid Black  

Patricia Hswe 

Jeremy Greene (listen to our episode with Jeremy Greene here) 

New Generation Scholars 

The African Diaspora Alliance 

Ink Sweat and Tears 

Runaways London 

Marisa Parham  

The REPAIR Project 

Heidi Nicholls 

Samuel Kelton Roberts, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (2009) 

Jessica Marie Johnson, “4DH: + 1 Black Code / Black Femme Forms of Knowledge and Practice” (2018) 

Life x Code: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure 

Center for Black Digital Research #DigBlk, Pennsylvania State University 

African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum), University of Maryland, College Park 

Gabrielle Foreman 

Jessica Marie Johnson & Kismet Nuñez, “Alter Egos and Infinite Literacies, Part III: How to Build a Real Gyrl in 3 Easy Steps” (2015) 

Black Press Research Collective 

Moya Bailey, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (2021) 

Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (2020) 

Alexis Pauline Gumbs 

Sangodare Wallace  

adrienne maree brown 

Abdul Alkalimat 

Alondra Nelson 

Jennifer L. Morgan, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (2021) 

Vincent Brown, History Design Studio 

Britt Rusert 

Autumn Womack 

Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts (2021) 

Stuart Hall 

Marisa Fuentes 

Christina Sharpe 

Saidiya Hartman 

Édouard Glissant 

William Kentridge 

Black Beyond Data Reading Group 

Catherine Knight Steele 

Brandeis Marshall 

Dorothy Berry 

No Boundaries Coalition 

Tony Warner, Black History Walks 

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 and the humanities from his perspective as an MD PhD; about how history can “reshape the limits of the possible” and push back against the “inertia of entrenched power”; about his most recent book, The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth; and about how and why the medical humanities must be a “critical” field. 

SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 

Jeremy Greene, Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease (2007) 

Jeremy Greene, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine (2014) 

Jeremy Greene, The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth (2022) 

David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan, We’ll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity (2022) 

Mary Fissell’s episode of “For the Medical Record” 

The Flexner Report 

Keith Wailoo, “Patients are Humans Too: The Emergence of the Medical Humanities” (2022) 

Charles Rosenberg 

Paul Farmer, Partners in Health 

Allan Brandt 

Center of Africana Studies Event with Sadiya Hartman 

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 

Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, Discard Studies (2022) 

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 History of Medicine. 

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 methods for disseminating research, medical knowledge, and medical histories. 

SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 

Interactive article that touches on topics covered in Lan’s forthcoming book: Lan A. Li, “Sunk from Sight: Mapping the Fluid Body” (2020) 

Christine J. Walley and Chris Boebel (MIT / Exit Zero film) 

Shigehisa Kuriyama 

Lan A. Li, “Emotional Spleens: Death by Overthinking in Classical Chinese Texts” (2022) 

Alexander Wragge-Morley and Metaphors of the Mind 

Pierce Salguero, The Jivaka Project 

Medicine, Science, and the Humanities (MSH) program at Johns Hopkins 

Walter Rodney  

Center for Black Brown and Queer Studies 

Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (2019) 

Ahmed Ragab 

Jeremy Greene 

Elizabeth O’Brien 

Alexandre (Sasha) White 

Graham Mooney 

Nathaniel Comfort 

Mary Fissell 

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 presented at Hopkins on September 29, 2022.

To watch some of the “Colloquially Speaking” videos from previous years: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCNPqHyu7giQm8dD-DhfCJw/videos 

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 MENTIONED 

Carolyn Sufrin, Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars (2017) 

Advocacy and Research on Reproductive Wellness of Incarcerated People 

Clifford Geertz 

John and Jean Comaroff 

Carlos Martinez 

Panel chaired by Carolyn Sufrin: “Eugenics and Population Control: Racism and Reproduction in Public Health”  

Michel Foucault 

Robin D. G. Kelley 

Ian Whitmarsh 

Angela Garcia    

Lorna Rhodes   

Dorothy Roberts  

Loretta Ross 

Monica McLemore 

Lisa Stevenson 

Michele Goodwin  

Crystal Hayes 

Article by Carolyn Sufrin on "complicity consciousness," which was just published: Carolyn Sufrin, "Complicity Consciousness: The Dual Practice of Ethnography and Clinical Caregiving in Carceral Settings"

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. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.

Link to the Keith Wailoo article discussed: https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/publication/downloads/Daedalus_Su22_15_Wailoo.pdf