Section of the History of Medicine

September 11, 2023 3:45 PM

The Section of the History of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine invites applications for the Elias E. Manuelidis Memorial Fund Research Grant. This is a program, open to all Yale students, to support research in the history of medicine with an emphasis on issues of discrimination and social justice. Application submission deadline is October 14, 2023.

Nientara Anderson, MD, MHS, third-year resident, and Marco Ramos, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the history of medicine and psychiatry, are co-authors of a paper in Academic Medicine that explores the history of European racial science and medicine’s relationship to colonization and slavery and examines how this history impacts today’s medical learning environment.

“I don’t think it’s just the hospital’s fault, but maybe it’s the current structure of care … with medical professionals and the way they treat women,” Rogers said. “Maybe rather than trying to deal with that, you just set up a different environment. You just build a new house.”

The 57th Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology (JAS-Bio) Friday, April 14 through Saturday, April 15, 2023

The Elias E. Manuelidis Lecture in the History of Medicine and Science March 27, 2023 4:30 p.m.

Naomi Rogers speaks to Alex Doubet on his podcast about the historical significance of the development of the polio vaccine. Listen here.

The John P. McGovern Lecture in the History of Medicine and Science March 27, 2023 4:30 p.m. Johanna Schoen, Professor of History at Rutgers University, will offer a brief summary of the opening of the Yale-New Haven Special Care Nursery in 1960, the country’s first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and place the history of the unit into the larger context of emerging neonatology and bioethical debates about when to treat severely ill infants, when not to treat, and how much influence to give parents in these decisions. The talk will take place on March 27th at 4:30 p.m. in the Medical Historical Library, 333 Cedar Street. This is an in-person only event.

Professor John Warner talks to the Yale Daily News about the history and ethics of anatomical dissection in medical schools.