Featuring the testimony of twenty-six nurses and one midwife, He Died in My Arms captures the untold oral history of frontline care during the UK AIDS epidemic. Authors Jane Bruton, Siân Edwards, and Martin Jones document how clinical staff dismantled entrenched traditions to advocate for patient dignity and revolutionary HIV care.
Arlene W. Keeling’s Harbor of Hope uncovers the history of the Boston Floating Hospital and the nurses who transformed paediatric care. Examining late nineteenth-century infant mortality and hospital boats, the book highlights how nurse-led care and clinical observation saved thousands of children from deadly summer gastrointestinal illnesses.
The European Association for the History of Medicine and Health will hold its biennial meeting in 2025 in Berlin with Dora Vargha as her President! The conference theme will be announced soon.
Heidelberg University invites paper proposals engaging with the conference’s thematic focus on fever in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Areas of interest include the history of medicine…
