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 Harry Marks to visit, interview with the faculty, and meet our current students during the Fall semester.

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	Fall Events
	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 department sponsored 12th International Conference on East Asian History of Science, Medicine & Technology was held in Baltimore, Maryland from July 14-18. For more information or to see paper topics please visit the EASTM website. The report from the conference is also available on the site.
	Institute faculty map historical patterns of health inequality in Baltimore