The Center for the History of Medicine, in collaboration with the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation and the U-M School of Public Health, is pleased to announce the 15th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities.  This year we have invited Sara Rosenbaum, Professor of Health Law and Policy at George Washington Read more

The Center for the History of Medicine and the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation are proud to co-sponsor an upcoming two-day conference, “Vested Interests: Who Really Influences American Medicine, Public Health, and Health Policy?”  The conference will be held Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2 at the Rackham Graduate School on the campus of the Read more

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Markel has been selected as one of the winners of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.  The fellowships have been awarded for the past 90 years to those who have “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.”  Congratulations to Dr. Markel on this outstanding Read more

The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce the 14th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities.  This year we will be joined by Prof. David Oshinsky, Director of the Division of Medical Humanities and Professor of History at New York University.  Prof. Oshinsky is a prolific and award-winning author Read more

Come see a screening of Contagion, followed by a presentation from Capt. Martin, Cetron, MD, Director of the CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine.  Wednesday, February 25 at 7:00.

Read Dr. Markel’s Reuters op-ed piece on quarantining Ebola patients and states’ rights.

Watch Dr. Markel discuss the fascinating history of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg before a live audience on NPR’s Science Friday.

Read Dr. Markel’s latest New Republic article about the Ebola virus, “How Scary Is This Ebola Outbreak?”

Listen to Dr. Markel discuss the history of Alcoholic’s Anonymous on Michigan Radio’s Stateside.

Read Dr. Markel’s latest PBS NewsHour column, “One Man’s Rise from ‘Dr. Unqualified’ to Surgeon-in-Chief,” where he writes about the public career of Dr. C. Everett Koop.