I had so much fun (as usual!) talking about eighteenth-century breast caricatures at #BSECS2024 , on a wonderful panel all about skin 😃 #medhums

A fantastic read, a beautiful book & stunning scenery- this should be on all medical/healthcare reading lists - #MedHums

My lovely (nonacademic) husband decided that my book needed a booker-prize-esque sticker & this is why I married him ♥️ #litsci #histmed #medhums

'‘Crip time’ is both a theory and a practice – and a conception of living with illness that many patients bring to their healthcare interactions'

MedHums 101: What is Crip Time? By Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

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A very welcome email from Birkbeck, University of London / Birkbeck: English. #PhDone #medhums

Final call for #medhums PGRs & ECRs working on experiences of shame and loneliness in health and illness.... deadline for abstracts is 31 August! Get yours in ASAP Kathryn Body UoBris Centre for Health, Humanities and Science

A Physician Superintendent intent on stocking the grounds with peacocks, giving the Asylum the air of a country house. Correspondence from the archive prompts Zoe Strachan's reflection on family, landscape and these uniquely beautiful birds #medhums

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📢 OA Open Library of Humanities special issue for those interested in literature, languages, and the body 📢

The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine

#ModLangs #MedHums #Literature

This time last year, I was Columbia University University, presenting at the #MedHums conference, ‘Conception and its Discontents’. It was a magical, memorable time with brilliant colleagues on a unique campus. I am heartbroken to see the grievous events unfolding in this special place.

Our edited volume on #litmed #medhums has a cover Cambridge University Press 🎉 🎈

Great contributions by Steven Wilson Martina Zimmermann Angela Woods Alexandre Gefen @Loic_Bourdeau Dr Marie Allitt James Morland Kimberly R Myers and others (not on X) - very much looking forward to bis being out in Feb 24!

The Wellcome funded Sexual Harms & Medical Encounters project Sexual Harms + Medical Encounters has concluded after 5+ years at Birkbeck, led by Joanna Bourke & @ruthbeecher.bsky.social Dr Ruth Beecher

Read Rhea Sookdeosingh's report on the team's innovative research, #engagement & legacies

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Publication day for Knowing #pain is officially Friday 26th May, though copies are already circulating. It's the most important book I've written and the most politically urgent. #histmed #histsci #medhums #twitterstorians #emostory politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo… Please share!

Proofs! So pleased to be part of this fantastic volume - Wearable Objects and Curative Things - and to be sharing my work on material cultures of psychiatry, women and 'love's madness' in 18/19C England #medhums

Love this recent essay in bilingual academic journal Etudes Ecossaises on my autobiographical novel The State of Me (2008) by PhD researcher Laura MacDonald at Strathclyde English. #medhums CHASE Medical Humanities Network Medical Humanities Glasgow Glasgow Women's Library MedHums_BMJ #pwME

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Thank you Robin Burrow for this very kind review of my book in MedHums_BMJ. Really glad you liked it!

Oxford Academic Oxford Economics

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It's finally here! Thanks Polity for doing such a great job. #Pain #emohist #hustled #histsci #medhums #twitterstorians .

Today! Join us online for these 3 short talks on varied and fascinating aspects of medical humanities research (zoom link on our website) #medhums

🧵Thread of articles (including links) from the #MedHums British Medical Journal special issue December 2023, 49 (4)

Publishing Monday 17 July in North America. $35 (US) hardback. #pain #twitterstorians #histmed #histsci #medhums politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

For poet Stephen Watt, a photo of a football team at Gartnavel sparks a thoughtful poem, 'Season's Fever,' where the game has gone wrong, somehow. 'The vast sound of my own voice catches me by surprise...we are in this together.' #medhums #writing

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