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Andrew Lea, MD, PhD

@andrewlea.bsky.social

physician-historian professing at the university of rochester. book: DIGITIZING DIAGNOSIS (jhu press), order: https://bit.ly/diagnosis-lea. working on next book, AID TO THOUGHT, a history of the peripheral brain in medicine.

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Andrew Lea, MD, PhD@andrewlea.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Delighted to share that my book DIGITIZING DIAGNOSIS (@hopkinspress.bsky.social) has been awarded CBI's Human-Computer Interaction History Prize! Especially honored to follow last year's winners, Tom Mullaney and Brad Myers. Grateful to CBI for the award and for supporting work in computing history!

Jeffrey Yost@justcode.bsky.social · 3mo ago

CBI is thrilled to announce @andrewlea.bsky.social has won CBI's 2026 Human-Computer Interaction History Prize for his masterful book Digitizing Diagnosis (JHUP). Award made possible by HCI pioneer @benbendc.bsky.social #humancomputerinteraction #hci #ai #aihistory cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/and...

Christine Slobogin@slobogin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📆 A week from today 📆 - @andrewlea.bsky.social will be speaking at Corner Society! Register to attend in person or on Zoom here: www.raom.org/event-6469091

Rochester Academy of Medicine - The Corner Society "Who's in Whose Pocket? Reference Tools, Industry Interests, and the Quest for Therapeutic Reform"

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Christine Slobogin@slobogin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Corner Society is back for the spring semester! This month's speaker is our very own @andrewlea.bsky.social - come out to the Rochester Academy of Medicine (or watch on Zoom) to hear his talk "Who's in Whose Pocket? Reference Tools, Industry Interests, and the Quest for Therapeutic Reform"

GEORGE WASHINGTON CORNER SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Who's in Whose Pocket? Reference Tools, Industry Interests, and the Quest for Therapeutic Reform Wednesday, February 25, 2026 5:30 pm Lecture 6:30 - 7:15 pm Social Gathering Physicians have carried practical guides for centuries. These tools—variously called “manuals," “handbooks,” “pocket remembrancers,” or more commonly, “vade mecums” (Latin for “go with me”) — served as on-the-go memory stimuli. Nineteenth-century manuals, such as Robert Hooper’s The Physician’s Vade-Mecum sought to “compress” for the busy physician the vast expanse of descriptive medical knowledge into a useful companion. This act of compression resulted in a knowledge bottleneck: with such limited space, including certain kinds of information invariably came at the expense of other types of information. The vade mecum would therefore become a contested site over what counted as “appropriate,” “important,” and “rational” medical knowledge. This lecture explores these themes by focusing on the American Medical Association’s Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (CPC), which, in the early 1930s, created a vade mecum to counter the excesses of proprietary drug manufacturers and inculcate a rational approach to medical therapeutics. Andrew Lea is an assistant professor of health humanities and bioethics at the University of Rochester and a general internist at the Strong Memorial Hospital. His research explores the history of artificial intelligence, communications media, and information technology in medicine and has appeared in leading historical and medical journals, including Isis and the New England Journal of Medicine. His first book, Digitizing Diagnosis, examined early efforts to computerize medical diagnosis and decision-making. He is working on his second book, Aid to Thought: A History of the Peripheral Brain in Medicine. Register here: https://www.raom.org/event-6469091
Andrew Lea, MD, PhD@andrewlea.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In case you missed it, please check out the shortlisted titles for @aahmhistmed.bsky.social's 2026 George Rosen Prize! It was an honor to serve on the selection committee. There's nothing more energizing than reading so much pathbreaking #histmed scholarship. histmed.org/2026-george-...

2026 George Rosen Prize Shortlist

George Rosen Prize Shortlist The George Rosen Prize is awarded in odd years to one or more authors/creators of an article, essay, edited volume, museum exhibition, film, or other significant contribut...

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American Association for the History of Medicine@aahmhistmed.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The AAHM is pleased to share the 2026 shortlists for the George Rosen Prize and the William H. Welch Medal. View the complete shortlists on the AAHM website (www.histmed.org). Congratulations to all the finalists on this significant achievement!

American Association for the History of Medicine

Founded in 1925, the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) is a professional association of historians, physicians, nurses, archivists, curators, librarians, and others. The AAHM pro...

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Adam Wickberg@adamwickberg.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

Centre for Anthropocene History@anthropocenekth.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Open PhD position at KTH: "AI Planetary Futures: Climate and environment in Silicon Valley's AI paradigm". Apply by Oct 23! lnkd.in/dCs8eZjb The project analyzes the climate and environmental aspects of Silicon Valley-based general-purpose AI systems developed by Big Tech companies.

Hanna Lucia Worliczek@hworliczek.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#Job #PhilSci #HPS Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025 Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451... On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...

Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy of the Medical S...

The History and Philosophy of Medicine Group, led by Prof. Lara Keuck, is looking for a highly motivated candidate for a three-year PhD project in phi...

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Andrew Lea, MD, PhD@andrewlea.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to be giving Grand Rounds at URMC on Sep 9! I'll be discussing the evolving tools doctors have used to grapple with information overload in medicine: from pocket guide to artificial intelligence. Come by the Class of 62 Auditorium if you're in Rochester, or tune in via Zoom if you're not.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 12mo ago

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Emily Moin@emilymoin.com · 12mo ago

I increasingly believe that having that much money distorts one's human interactions such that billionaires are in a constant state of progressive moral decay. The option to avoid this fate by philanthropically disposing of your gross excess assets is permanently available yet rarely exercised.

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 12mo ago

i do not believe that billionaires should be able to set the conditions under which democracies are permitted to govern, and therefore should not exist.

Christine Slobogin@slobogin.bsky.social · last yr.

The new Corner Society schedule is live! I'm so pleased to be able to welcome exciting history of medicine scholars to Rochester during this academic year. Even if you're not in Rochester, each of these lectures will be available via Zoom (with free registration).

Flyer for the: George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine 2025-2026 Season 5:30 Lecture 6:30 - 7:15 Social Gathering Rochester Academy of Medicine 1441 East Avenue Wednesday September 10 Paul Renfro Florida State University "Ryan White, Hemophiia, and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic" Wednesday, September 29 Courtney Thompson Mississippi State University "A Calculus of Compassion: Medicine, Emotion, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century America" Wednesday, November 19 Mary Fissell Johns Hopkins University "Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Rethinking Abortion in Early Modern Anglo-America" Wednesday, February 25 Andrew Lea University of Rochester "Who's in Whose Pocket? Reference Tools, Industry Interests, and the Quest for Therapeutic Reform" Wednesday, March 25 Ayah Nuriddin Yale University "Black Eugenics and the Struggle for Equality" Wednesday, April 15 Anna Arabindan-Kesson Princeton University "Case Notes: Art History's Medical Imaginaries" For more information or to become a Corner Society member, please contact Christine Slobogin, PhD, at Christine_Slobogin@URMC.Rochester.edu.
Alex Parry, Ph.D.@safetyworkhstm.bsky.social · last yr.

As a historian of injuries and product safety, this one feels personal. The CPSC can’t do its job without independent commissioners. Let’s review some of the cases that led to the establishment of the agency in the first place:

Supreme Court allows Trump to fire members of product safety agency

A judge had reinstated three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency set up by Congress to be independent of political pressure.

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