Department of History of Science and Technology

Special Event - Hideyo Noguchi Lecture. Alisha Rankin of Tufts University will present, "The Skillful Surgeon: Surgical Expertise and Contested Authority in Early Modern Europe".

Sofia Grant, 2nd year JHU, will present, "Blocked Impulses: Myasthenia Gravis, the Prostigmin Test, and the Making of a Clinical Diagnosis". There will be a pre-circulated paper.

Melody Xu, 2nd year JHU, will present, "Attention is in the Eye of the Beholder: Norman Mackworth and the Development of Eye Tracking Technology in the 20th Century." There will be a pre-circulated paper.

A book launch and discussion of "Body Maps: Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine" with author Lan Li of Johns Hopkins University.

Yemok Jeon, 2nd year JHU, will present, "Insects on Ice: Disease Uncertainty and Local Knowledge in Germ Warfare Narratives of the Korean War (1950-1953)". There will be a pre-circulated paper.