Welcome to the History of Medicine
at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Founded in 1929, the Institute of the History of Medicine is the oldest history of medicine department in the US. We are dedicated to scholarship on the history of medicine, disease and the health sciences, and their relation to society. In addition, the Institute seeks to bring historical perspectives to bear on contemporary health issues. ...more...

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Prospective graduate students are strongly encouraged to arrange with Dr. Nathaniel Comfort to visit, interview with the faculty, and meet our current students during the Fall semester.

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	Faculty opening: Historian of 20th C. US medicine
	Harry Milton Marks, Jan. 5, 1947-Jan. 25, 2011
	Congratulations to our Graduate Students!
	Department events
	Catch us if you can! (Faculty lectures & seminars)
	The Center for the History of Public Health and Disease joins with the Departments of Anthropology, Health, Behavior and Society, and the Institute for Global Studies to create a new cross-divisional initiative to engage global health studies from a critical and inter-disciplinary perspective.
	Institute faculty map historical patterns of health inequality in Baltimore