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

The Institute of the History of Medicine is a center for advanced studies dedicated to promoting scholarship on the history of medicine, disease, and the health sciences and their relationship to society. In addition, the Institute seeks to bring historical perspectives to bear on contemporary health issues.

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

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	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.
	The Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology will be co-hosting the12th International Conference of the Society of the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine in July 2008.
	Institute faculty map historical patterns of health inequality in Baltimore