{"id":228,"date":"2013-03-21T12:25:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/?p=228"},"modified":"2013-03-21T12:25:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:25:28","slug":"the-historian-of-medicines-blogroll-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/the-historian-of-medicines-blogroll-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The historian of medicine’s blogroll (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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William Osler keeping up-to-date pre-blogosphere. From the Osler Photo Collection<\/a>, CUS_064-048_P.<\/p><\/div>\n

The world of academic blogging keeps getting better and better and, indeed, a more and more important way of engaging with scholarly communities. Here are just a couple highlights for the historian of medicine.<\/p>\n

Center for Medical Humanities blog<\/a>: This longstanding blog from the Centre for Medical Humanities<\/a> at Durham University is definitely one for the RSS<\/a>. \u00a0It\u2019s an important distributor of calls for papers and announcements of conferences, talks, and new publications in medical humanities and history of medicine.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a collaborative blog that features scholarly content from guest contributors ranging from profiles of researchers<\/a> to introductions to current wor<\/a>k.<\/p>\n

Remedia <\/a>is a beautifully designed new blog devoted to all things history of medicine, particularly topics that help to illuminate contemporary issues. Entries so far touch on obesity and death and dying (see, for example, this interview about assisted suicide<\/a>) and although it\u2019s young, it looks like a promising blog to follow.<\/p>\n

Contagions<\/a>: Subtitled \u201cThoughts on historic infectious diseases,\u201d this is an\u00a0 impressive blog by biologist Michelle Ziegler of Saint Louis University that provides an account on her work on \u201cold germs\u201d and public health. Current research topics of her include a bioarcheology of plague, particularly a study of the early medieval plague of Justinian, and inflectious disease in the Americas. Have a look at her entry on gerbil plague<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Next in our series of professor blogs comes William Eamon\u2019s site, featuring his blog Labyrinth of Nature<\/a>: \u201coccasional thoughts and random reflections on the history of Renaissance science.\u201d Eamon, a professor at New Mexico State University and author of two excellent and eminently readable books on Renaissance scientific and medical culture, writes a great blog. The posts are on various topics or events in early modern medicine or science; all are illustrated with images and provide further readings. Check out his study of 16th<\/sup> century Italian surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti and his drug of choice, Precipitato<\/a> (mercuric oxide), which he prescribed liberally for purgation.<\/p>\n

Medical History<\/a>: In this blog, our host, Dr. Turkey, obstetrician by day and historical storyteller by night, shares photographs, anecdotes, and diagnoses (see, for example, her brief history of anesthesia<\/a> or her opinion on Attila the Hun\u2019s death<\/a>. A fun read for the historically curious.<\/p>\n

The Medicine Chest<\/a> is devoted specifically to early modern and 18th century medicine from Dutch historian Marieke Hendriksen. Her posts span a range of subjects from medical material culture to pharmacy, and topics from harelips<\/a> to mercury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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