Christina Ramos
@xtinaramos.bsky.social
Professor | historian of medicine | author of Bedlam in the New World | new project: Nursing an Empire: Hospitals and Global Health in the Hispanic World
SO excited for this! Congrats, Patrick!
Patrick Iber@patrickiber.bsky.social · 7mo agoYour humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026
Hello again from Napoleon C, where a large crowd has gathered for the #HSS2025 distinguished lecture! Our speaker is Conevery Valencius, whose research draws connections b/w #histSTM, #EarthScience & #envhist. Her talk tonight is entitled "Boom: What History of Science Needs to know About Shale."
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OK--the coffee break is over, and it's time for the second Saturday morning #HSS2025 panel. I'm in the Edgewood room for an authors roundtable featuring new books in the global history of science. Looking forward to hearing about John Herschel, Soviet computing & the Buenos Aires Zoo! #histSTM
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Our program chairs, @chrheaney.bsky.social & @xtinaramos.bsky.social, remind us that last year HSS celebrated its centennial in Merida. Tonight, we're kicking off our 2nd century by thinking about the public stories we tell about #histSTM when scientific institutions are under threat. #HSS2025
Congrats to @eobrien.bsky.social!
American Association for the History of Medicine@aahmhistmed.bsky.social · last yr.The Welch Medal honors outstanding scholarly work in the history of medicine. Out of a truly impressive shortlist, Elizabeth A. O'Brien won the Welch Medal for her book "Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940," published by @uncpress.bsky.social. 🗃️
Very proud to be part of these two great collections with so many great colleagues. Do what @cethompson.bsky.social says. Spice up your class.
Courtney E. Thompson@cethompson.bsky.social · 2y agoLooking to spice up your #histmed classes? Consider two new books coming out just in time for Fall 2025! Full of pithy and provocative essays, Do Less Harm (ed. me & @drkyliesmith.bsky.social) and The Nursing Clio Reader (@nursingclio.bsky.social) offer new perspectives to meet the moment. 1/2
With more amazing #histmed authors than I can list here, these two books offer a wide range of accessible scholarship. Pre-order now! 2/2 Do Less Harm: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The Nursing Clio Reader: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...
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Fantastic (long-overdue, imho) interview on history of psychiatry and "mental health" industrial complex, etc etc etc with brilliant and effervescent @daniellecarr.bsky.social on @thedigradio.bsky.social - thank you @danieldenvir.bsky.social
Daniel Denvir@danieldenvir.bsky.social · 2y agoMy long-planned interview w @daniellecarr.bsky.social is out on @thedigradio.bsky.social! On history and present state of American unwellness; how it’s been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones, social media—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/psyc...
Harvard Museums lecture "The Power & Bias of Measurements" with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Pablo F. Gómez, & Gabriela Soto Laveaga Thursday, February 27th at 6 p.m. for exhibition Measuring Difference. Lecture is free & open to public, in person & online. #HPS hmsc.harvard.edu/calendar_eve...
I have a book cover!! So grateful to the brilliant cover art designers who reworked the original Kennedy briefing map for me. Coming October 2025! 🗃️
Sooo excited for this! Thanks @amandajsummers.bsky.social!
As Biden is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte E. Rosen wonders: what was the Resistance “Twitterstorian”? Well-paid liberal “attack dogs” of democracy like Heather Cox Richardson proved to be all too willing to turn to Democratic Party apologia—especially on Gaza. proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...
The End of Resistance History
As the Biden administration is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte Rosen wonders: what was the liberal Hashtag-Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And, as a product of the first Trump term, what did commentato...
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Vetoing is the last resort of those who have lost the argument already
Juan José Ponce Vázquez@jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 2y agoThey vetoed the resolution. The cowardice and uselessness of the leadership of the AHA are going to destroy the institution. They are only good to take gargantuan membership fees. Frankly, I am not surprised. This is what they do. www.historians.org/news/busines...
I truly do not know what learned societies are for any more.
I LOVE this cover - and the fact that I’ve been able to collaborate with such an amazing scholarly collective!
Kylie M. Smith@drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 2y ago@cethompson.bsky.social and I are so excited to share the cover for our book Do Less Harm out soon with @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Stunning cowardice by the AHA Council. For shame. "The Council considers the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza ... to contravene the Association’s Constitution and Bylaws because it lies outside the scope of the Association’s mission and purpose." 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/busines...
Business Meeting Resolution Update - AHA
Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the “R...
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could’ve sent this to the full membership for a vote, but the council outright vetoed it instead. if you’re not interested in your members’ views, i’m not sure why your members should remain part of the organization.
Paul Renfro@renfro.bsky.social · 2y agoStunning cowardice by the AHA Council. For shame. "The Council considers the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza ... to contravene the Association’s Constitution and Bylaws because it lies outside the scope of the Association’s mission and purpose." 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/busines...
Newest item on the "Mother of All Pandemics" (2nd Plague Pandemic) bibliography: Reixach Sala, A. (2025). Fighting the plague in the Crown of Aragon (mid-fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries). Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 1–21. doi.org/10.1080/1754... #MedievalSky #PublicHealth
Fighting the plague in the Crown of Aragon (mid-fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries)
This article seeks to identify possible drivers explaining the evolution of the measures adopted by the municipal governments of the late medieval Crown of Aragon to fight the plague, from the Blac...
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16th-century paintings rediscovered in the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in the tiny Mexican town of Santa María Huiramangaro, Michoacán news.artnet.com/art-world/la... #earlymodern
Forgotten Paintings Rediscovered in Mexican Church Restoration
A new restoration of a church in Mexico has revealed a host of resplendent 16th-century religious paintings that once spanned its ceiling.
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Congratulations to the membership of the American Historical Association for finding the voice, moral clarity, professional integrity to vote YES on the Resolution Against Scholasticide in Gaza! The work is just beginning. There will be more votes, chances to stand up. Take every opportunity. #AHA25
#AHA25 resolution against scholasticide in Gaza passes 428 to 88!!
I’m delighted to announce that my new book, The Coming of the Kingdom: the Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada has just come out in open access digital form (hardcover to follow shortly). It is free to download and read at the link below. 1/5
The Coming of the Kingdom
Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - The Coming of the Kingdom
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✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic 💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom 🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24 🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
New book on how human institutions have both exacerbated and try to control epidemics. I haven't seen it yet. But seems like it's one to keep an eye out for when it's released in a couple of months: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #EpiSky
Controlling Contagion
How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.
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My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨ In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇 academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England
Abstract. Historians typically explore the resilience of past societies in terms of large-scale outcomes like population levels. In contrast, this paper ex
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