Perspectives on Science

In this podcast episode, we talk with Jonson Miller, author of Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute. In Engineering Manhood, Jonson Miller explores the development of the Virginia Military Institute and the engineering profession in the Antebellum United States. Miller delves into the ways in which VMI was a node in the struggle for political representation among lower and middle-class white men, while explicitly excluding women and black men from its egalitarian mission. Jonson Miller was a 2014 to 2015 Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Find this podcast and further resources on the Consortium's website at: https://www.chstm.org/video/108

John Jackson discusses the legacy of nineteenth-century racial science on twentieth-century scientific investigation, the challenge to racial science made by population genetics and anthropology, and the ways in which the pseudoscience of race continues to inform twenty-first century debates. Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series on racial science at: www.chstm.org/video/101

Rana Hogarth talks about how white physicians "medicalized" blackness in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and how African-Americans pushed back against this endeavor. Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series on racial science at: www.chstm.org/video/101

This event looks at the profound health inequities around giving birth, further laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussions with experts include how slavery and the history of reproductive medicine intersect, the impact that medical racism has on Black birthing people from slavery to freedom, engagement in the national reproductive justice movement, and recent efforts to address racial inequities in maternal mortality and morbidity in NYC. This event is part of the Race & Health series at The New York Academy of Medicine. For more resources related to this presentation, please visit: www.chstm.org/video/102

Follow along with Professor Mary Fissell as she discusses her research on Aristotle's Masterpiece, a late 17th century sex, midwifery, and childbirth manual popular in England and America from its publication until well into the 20th century. Dr. Fissell explores the ways in which readers used their copies of the book to record births and vows of love and companionship, performing a similar function to the Bible. Dig into the similarities and differences between copies of the Masterpiece held at Kislak Center for Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. To explore more resources related to this presentation, please visit: https://www.chstm.org/video/83

Join Fellows of the Consortium and Jan Golinski, Thomas Misa, and Keith Wailoo, the respective presidents of the History of Science Society, Society for the History of Technology, and the American Association for the History of Medicine, as they discuss the challenges of the present moment and what the future holds for their organizations. They discuss the organizations' new initiatives, the roles of young scholars in the Societies, the limits and opportunities of virtual meetings, inclusion and diversity in the profession, and the current jobs crisis. To find helpful resources related to this presentation, please visit: https://www.chstm.org/video/104

What is the relationship between technological change and economic development? Do the roots of the 'knowledge economy' lie in sixteenth century Europe? Explore these issues and more beginning with an in-depth look at Johannes Stradanus's Nova Reperta [ca. 1590], an engraved series of prints depicting inventions such as the printing press, gunpowder, and guaiacum, a plant used to treat syphilis. Join our speakers as they go on to discuss the relationship between local and global knowledge, the role of collaboration for invention, and the positive and negative impacts of new technology over the past six centuries. To find more resources related to this presentation, please visit: www.chstm.org/video/104

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan reflects on public engagement, political history, and the COVID-19 crisis in India. Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series on COVID-19 at: https://www.chstm.org/video/74

Mary Augusta Brazelton talks about the COVID-19 crisis along with the history of public health and modernization in China. Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series on COVID-19 at: https://www.chstm.org/video/74

Marcos Cueto discusses the COVID-19 crisis in Brazil. Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series on COVID-19 at: https://www.chstm.org/video/74