@joseph-price.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Warwick | Centre for the History of Medicine, Science & Technology | Histories of Sexual Health at University in Postwar England https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2282164/
Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.
New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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This thought-provoking book addresses the persistent anxieties surrounding the purpose and direction of higher education, offering a nuanced historical perspective on its transformation. Read more on the link included.
Very exciting news!! My first book, 'Universities and the Purpose of Higher Education Expansion and Development in Post-War Britain' has appeared on the Routledge website! 📖
Currently anticipating a January 2026 launch!
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Today is official publication day of @cethompson.bsky.social and my little collection “Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians”. It has 28 essays on names, images, museum and archival practices, teaching, reparations, positionality, citation and more. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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📣Registration is still open for ‘Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future’. Check out our exciting programme below! Join us in person or online. Registration is FREE but essential.
⏰2-3 July 2025
🏛️University of Birmingham / online
👉Register here by Monday 2nd June: forms.office.com/e/mQHq8NgSmQ
Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future A multidisciplinary workshop Join us in person or online Room WG17, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Birmingham, 2-3 July 2025 The prevention, treatment and control of sexually transmissible infections, including HIV, has a complex history. It has been the catalyst for significant developments in medicine and public health. But it has also been stigmatised, occupying a grey area between quackery and reputable medicine. Sexual health embodied fears about social disorder, at times seen as a ‘racial poison’ and a threat to colonial, state and military authority. And it was used as an excuse for human experimentation, draconian legislation and the persecution of minoritised and marginalised communities. Yet event with such a turbulent history, sexual health currently faces one of its greatest crises. Rates of syphilis are at their highest since 1948 and there are more cases of gonorrhoea than at any other point since records began. Barriers to PrEP uptake persist. While RSE has improved, significant shortcomings remain. The impact of mental health, poverty and domestic violence on sexual-health outcomes are not adequately addressed. Services decimated by underfunding are no longer accessible to many who need them. And a lack of culturally competent, inclusive provisions means that many service users feel alienated by the services that are available. All of this is exacerbating deep inequalities in health outcomes and wellbeing. This multidisciplinary workshop is an opportunity for researchers and health professionals to explore the historical legacies and challenges facing sexual health today and in the future. It is supported by the UKRI project ‘Histories of Sexual Health in Britain’ and is CPD accredited by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians. Scan the QR code to register. Registration is free but essential.
📣Registration is open for our workshop, 'Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future'! Join us in person or online. Registration is FREE but essential.
⏰ 2-3 July 2025
🏛️ University of Birmingham / online
👉 Register here: forms.office.com/e/mQHq8NgSmQ
#histmed #histsex #medhums #sexualhealth #SRH #HIV
