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Johns Hopkins University Press Blog A checkup of Late Antiquity brianjshea 4 months ago Categories: Ancient, Health and Medicine, History, History of Medicine, Journals, Uncategorized In late 2015, the Journal of Late Antiquity published a special issue on the intersections of religion, medicine, health, healing and disability in Late Antiquity. Guest edited by Kristi Upson-Saia and Heidi Marx-Wolf, the …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Religion, politics, and Charlie Sheen jackholmesjr 5 months ago Categories: Cultural Studies, Current Affairs, Education, For Everyone, History, Holidays, Politics, Public Health, Publishing News, University Presses Tags: Recommended Reading, SNL, Thanksgiving By Kathryn Marguy Of all the celebratory hullabaloo surrounding the release of Adele’s latest album, my favorite has to be …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Meet us in Denver: Association for the Study of Higher Education brianjshea 6 months ago Categories: Academia, Conferences, Education, Higher Education, Journals If you are in Denver for the ASHE annual meeting, be sure to stop by to meet our staff, browse our latest publications, and take advantage of special meeting discounts. Throughout the …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Meet Us In Houston: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities brianjshea 6 months ago Categories: ASBH 2015, Bioethics, Conferences, Education, Health and Medicine, Journals, Medical Education If you are in Houston for the ASBH annual meeting, be sure to stop by Booth #408 to meet our staff, browse our latest publications, and …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Ending medical reversal jackholmesjr 8 months ago Categories: Bioethics, Consumer Health, Health and Medicine, History of Medicine Tags: Clinical trials, Medical innovation, Medical reversal Guest post by Vinayak K. Prasad, MD, MPH, and Adam S. Cifu, MD For doctors, it is common to have some doubt about a new medical test, …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Measles is serious (a history lesson from my Grandmother) jackholmesjr 9 months ago Categories: Consumer Health, Health and Medicine, Pediatrics, Public Health Tags: Encephalitis, Measles, Parenting, Science of Mom Blog, Vaccination Guest post by Alice Callahan Today’s post is an excerpt from a longer piece that first appeared on the author’s …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog SEL celebrates Voyager Award brianjshea 9 months ago Categories: Awards, Journals, Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare At the 2015 Modern Language Association Convention, the journal SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 won the Voyager Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). The award recognizes an outstanding journal in any discipline …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Happy Birthday, Henry Clay Folger! jackholmesjr 10 months ago Categories: Biography, D.C., Libraries, Literature, Shakespeare, Washington Tags: Amherst College, bibliophile, Folder Shakespeare Library, Henry Clay Folger Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Here are three things to remember about Henry Clay Folger on his 158th birthday, June 18, 2015. One. The …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Brain eating, prion science, and latest chapter in the story of kuru jackholmesjr 1 year ago Categories: Biology, Genetics, Health and Medicine, History of Medicine, Public Health Tags: Brain eating, Kuru, New Guinea Guest post by Warwick Anderson We invited Warwick Anderson, author of The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists …
Johns Hopkins University Press Blog Diagnosis and shades of grey mktstu1878 1 year ago Categories: Consumer Health, Health and Medicine Tags: diagnosis, disease, health Guest post by Annemarie Jutel Diagnoses are by their very nature well-defined categories. That’s what a diagnosis is: a label for grouping things that are more like X than like Y. It’s influenza, …