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.

The Institute of the History of Medicine contains:

• The Department of the History of Medicine which jointly runs the Graduate Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology with the Department of History of Science and Technology, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

• The Historical Collections, a medical history research library containing antiquarian and modern resources.

• The editorial offices of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, the official journal of the American Association of the History of Medicine.

Visit Us!

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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	Congratulations to our Graduate Students!
	'Catch me here!'
	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.
	Program Sponsored International Conference at Johns Hopkins University July 2008 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