[AAHM_Clio_Project] thanks and happy holidays

[Sandra Sufian]

Dear David and Jeremy:  Thank you for this update. I have found the "Making the Case" article extremely useful in setting out arguments (and showing that this issue is a national one) for increasing the presence of medical humanities/history at UIC's medical school.  
It makes a difference to have a published article written by prominent scholars to present to my chair, the Dean and the Associate Deans. 

Happy Holidays to everyone on this list!
Sandy Sufian, PhD, MPH

On Dec 19, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Jones, David <dsjones at harvard.edu> wrote:

> As the semester winds down, we’d like to update people about some of the publishing activities related to the Clio Initiative.  The paper that we discussed at a past AAHM session has now been published; several historians have published pieces that have gotten good attention (especially about Ebola); and many good opportunities exist in the medical literature for historians who are interested in engaging.
> 
> (1) The paper by David Jones, Jeremy A. Greene,  Jacalyn Duffin, and John Harley Warner, “Making the Case for Medical Education,” is now freely available on the JHMAS site.  According to Chis Crenner (speaking as the journal’s editor): “You can post this link and circulate it widely. A pdf formatted version can be saved from the site. Oxford University Press agreed to keep the paper freely available for one year in this format. We anticipate paper publication in JHMAS 70(3) this summer, but the electronic post will remain open after that time. Please do not circulate the paper itself, only the link.”  A spin off of this piece, about the relations between history of medicine and the medical humanities, is in the works as well.
> 
> (2) The Ebola outbreak has created an unfortunate opportunity for historians of medicine.  Scott Podolsky published a piece about Ebola and serotherapy in Annals of Internal Medicine.  This piece got lots of attention, from blogs to various news outlets.  Greg Mitman published a Perspective in NEJM based on his work on the Firestone plantations.  Howard Markel wrote about lessons from cholera in 1892 in the New Republic; his older work on quarantine has become newly relevant, and discussed.  Charles Rosenberg’s work has been discussed in many places.  Under the auspices of the National History Center, Greg Mitman, Julie Livingston, and Randy Packard, participated in a Congressional briefing.  This must be just the tip of the iceberg — maybe the AAHM should compile a list?  It might be a useful set of links on the homepage — Historians take on Ebola.
> 
> (3) Many medical journals remain interested in history submissions.  NEJM has published a series of Perspectives, including Sue Lederer on pathogen challenge experiments, Warwick Anderson on autoimmunity, David Rothman, on where we die, and Chin Jou on obesity genetics; if you have ideas about these, I’d be happy to strategize.  NEJM has very particular ideas about what it wants, and historians haven’t always had good experiences with their submissions.  Annals of Internal Medicine is actively interested.  In addition to Scott’s piece on serotherapy, they ran one by Deborah Levine about President Taft and obesity, which again got wide media coverage, including the NYT.  Lancet also likes to publish history of medicine in their Art of Medicine series.  JAMA has published both short- and long-format history of medicine as well.  AJPH has long been one of the best ways for historians to get an audience beyond history.
> 
> If you have other leads or thoughts to share, please send them around.
> 
> David and Jeremy
> 
> David S. Jones, M.D., Ph.D.
> A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine
> Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine
> Harvard University
> 
> Jeremy A. Greene, M.D., Ph.D.,
> Associate Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine,
> Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine
> Institute of the History of Medicine
> The Johns Hopkins University
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