Hello #HistMed & folks! AAHM education committee is putting together our hist of medicine week for the end of Oct & I am organizing a virtual panel on incorporating med history into survey/general history courses. Is this something that you can speak on? Or do you know someone great? Let me know!

We've finalized the schedule for this year's Corner Society lectures! Can't wait to welcome these speakers to Rochester - on topics from disability in the Civil War to the intersection of dermatology and Cubist art.

I received a personal email, from someone I know well, asking me if I thought a certain Texas democratic candidate had any chance of winning. With zero prompting, google AI drafted a reply in which fake-me declined to comment on the subject. Umm? I def do not decline. What is the end game with this?

A come and take it flag with an egg potato and cheese taco

You thought you heard a roll of thunder, but it was actually thousands of medical historians cracking their knuckles and rolling up their sleeves to revisit centuries of “dirty immigrant” canards.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

This lovely obit for Paula Doress-Worters of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective was in the WaPo last week. There is an inane quote from me about her, and a much better quote from an oral history I did with her, but more importantly great stories from others about her spunk and fearlessness.

Paula Doress-Worters, who helped break the silence on postpartum depression, dies at 87

She co-wrote “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” a 1970s touchstone conceived by and for women. The book offered information about abortion, pregnancy and postpartum life.

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Such an honour to have my book 'The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared' written up in the @newyorker.com. I've loved this mag since I was 12 and made my dad explain the articles to me. A thoughtful, voicey review by Margaret Talbot: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Sexologist Who Unlocked the Female Orgasm

Fifty years ago, a controversial writer named Shere Hite taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the millions. Why do so few people know her name today?

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My new article for the Social History of Medicine is online! 'Perk Up Your Looks and You Along With It’: Postpartum Depression and the Body in 1980s and 1990s US Self-Help Books will be in print later this year, in a special issue edited by the amazing @fabiolacreed.bsky.social and Hilary Marland.

‘Perk Up Your Looks and You Along With It’: Postpartum Depression and the Body in 1980s and 1990s US Self-Help Books

Abstract. Using four postpartum self-help books published in the 1980s and 1990s US, I examine the advice that women could improve their ‘unruly’ postpartu

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SHORT-LISTED! So proud to learn that AAHM has short-listed "Starved for Light" for the George Rosen Prize, along with books from @bethlinker.bsky.social , @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social , @xtinaramos.bsky.social , @travisaweisse.bsky.social , and Harry Yi-Jui Wu. histmed.org/2026-george-...

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

“This year’s flu vaccine has proved an imperfect match to the currently circulating strains. New shots, based on mRNA technology, would have one day enabled us to avoid this kind of misfire. But the nation’s leaders have imperiled that future with the decisions they made this year.”

Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year

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Come be my colleague at Texas A&M! I am excited to share this ad for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of U.S. History (any period) with expertise at the intersection of law and science, technology, or medicine. Please share widely with qualified folks jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69627

Oxford University Press @academic.oup.com is pleased to announce that the First Book Prize will open for submissions in Jan 2026. The prize offers up to 10 early-career researchers the opportunity to publish their first academic book fully open access on Oxford Academic, with the full OA fee waived.

Come be my colleague at Texas A&M! I am excited to share this ad for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of U.S. History (any period) with expertise at the intersection of law and science, technology, or medicine. Please share widely with qualified folks jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69627

The audiobook for Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America is $2.41 on audible, at 86% off… rough for my ego BUT amazing news for anyone who hasn’t bought it yet!

Just learned about a couple books I NEED rn via this great list.

Contingent Magazine@contingent-mag.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!

Humans are bad at big numbers. Which makes it easier for billionaires (and trillionaires) to get away with hoarding wealth. Because most people just can't comprehend how much money that is. So, I appreciate this WaPo effort to help people visualize what ridiculous amounts of wealth really mean.

The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️

Sharing my recent article from the Journal of the History of Sexuality, "The Politics of Penetration: Sexual Self-Fulfillment and the G-Spot in 1980s America." It is the first piece I have published from my new project, and it is great to have it out in the world (such as the world is).

Mark's new book is real! Willing Warriors: A New History of the Education Culture Wars. It's an entertaining and smart take on the last 75 years of political fights over American education. @schoolfuss.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I serve on the AAHM's Outreach and Education committee, and we are about to launch an exciting 2025 History of Medicine Week series! We have events all next week, a couple are only for AAHM members but most are open to anyone interested.

Historians, please share these two exciting new positions in the Texas A&M History Department: careers.historians.org/jobs/2167991... careers.historians.org/jobs/2168299...

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor of Environmental History in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History

Exciting opportunity in College Station, TX for Texas A&M University, Department of History as a ...

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Great read

Conor Heffernan@physcstudy.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Published in the American Historical Review!🚨 My article argues that historians can treat the body as an archive. Using my own training alongside J.C. Hise’s 1930s squat experiments, I explore how fitness culture reshapes bodies, identities & anxieties. 👉 bit.ly/46xlcVw

U Chicago Press has a sale on history books with the code history2025, including 30% off mine (& whoa at the incredible company it is in here!)

When working on my postpartum depression book I met folks so excited about therapy chat bots (& now genAI therapy). New parents in the US struggle to find mental health providers, struggle to afford them, and don’t have childcare to see them. This doesn’t solve those problems. It just accepts them.

‘Sliding into an abyss’: experts warn over rising use of AI for mental health support

Therapists say they are seeing negative impacts of people increasingly turning to AI chatbots for help

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First academic journal review of my book Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America! Thoughtful (and positive, phew!) review in the Journal of Social History, from the amazing Wendy Kline.

Wow: tenure letter writers’ publication records (h-index) are better predictors of tenure decisions than candidates’ own publication record.

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋@jinxungoh.bsky.social · last yr.

Another paper from the same group: "External review letters are more closely related to letter writer characteristics than candidate productivity."

Going over page proofs for an article coming out this fall! First piece from my new project. I am super proud of my recent book on postpartum depression but I can't lie, this has been a less depressing project so far...

I thought every public pool was required to blast pop or pop country, but my they are blasting The Smiths at kids swim lessons in freaking College Station, Texas and it is all so gloriously wonderfully weird