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Lu Chen

@luchen.bsky.social

lu.chen@manchester.ac.uk History of medicine & global health https://luchengh.com Research associate @dhm-manchester.bsky.social @hcrinstitute.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk

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Engraving, F. Bertelli, 1642

Engraving, F. Bertelli, 1642

1/12 - In our book, The Mask, we show 58 striking images.

Remember those depictions of plague doctors wearing a beaked mask? Such visual elements were common in the 17th C and were always satirical.

Here is one by F. Bertelli, from Il Carnevale Italianoโ€ฆ1642 (The Met, NY).

tinyurl.com/uvzjs9py

21.08.2025 08:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#EAHMH25 Packed room for the Panel on Experiments with Public Health, with my colleagues from the Connecting Three Worlds and Bogdan Iacob (our honorary colleague also for Socialist Medicine)!

27.08.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#EAHMH25 Fascinating ongoing Lunch Roundtable around Bruno Strasser and Thomas Schlichโ€™s book Making the Medical Mask: a History of Breathing Bad Air

27.08.2025 11:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Person sitting at a table in font of a screen.

Person sitting at a table in font of a screen.

Lu Chen gives a paper on the expansion of vaccine programs in China in the second half of the 20th C arguing that health decision making shifted from the clinical gaze to the economic gaze.

27.08.2025 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Mask is discussed by David Gentilcore, Christoph Gradmann, @ahlie.bsky.social and @luchen.bsky.social

#eahmh25 #histmed

27.08.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":

ใ€Œๅ…ถๅฏฆๅœฐไธŠๆœฌๆฒ’ๆœ‰่ทฏ๏ผŒ่ตฐ็š„ไบบๅคšไบ†๏ผŒไนŸไพฟๆˆไบ†่ทฏใ€‚ใ€

-้ญฏ่ฟ…๏ผŒๆ•…้„‰
#everynightapoem

26.06.2025 02:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 602    ๐Ÿ” 179    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

The African Pharmaceuticals annotated bibliography is out! Thank you to my brilliant co-author Gabrielle Robbins from JHU!

The result is impresssive: 120 refs on everything you need to know on drugs in Africa!

www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780197768723/obo-9780197768723-0006.xml

28.05.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar Monthly Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar, September 10

Join us tomorrow to hear Pierre-Marie David from Universitรฉ de Montrรฉal on his new book, "Opรฉration Bangui: vaccine promises in Postcolonial Africa": how French medical researchers lauched an HIV vaccine project in the Central African Republic in the 1980s.

socialistmedicine.com/pierre-marie...

12.05.2025 09:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œStop looking north, look to the worldโ€. Can we imagine Global Health without the USA at its centre? How should the world respond when a single countryโ€™s power and influence are so deeply embedded in global structures that its actions can destabilise entire systems?

"The structural dependency on U.S. funding and leadership is a fundamental barrier to achieving a truly global vision for global health."

Our new blog for @plosglobalpublichealth.org

speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/14/s...

15.02.2025 01:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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CFP: EAHMH 2025 CFP: EAHMH 2025 Berlin - Health Beyond Medicine

Come to Berlin for the EAHMH in August! See the CFP here, along with a link for the submission site: socialistmedicine.com/cfp-eahmh-20... #histmed #eahmh #histsci

17.12.2024 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Navigating resistance in global health governance: Certification of smallpox eradication in China Certification is an essential stage in disease eradication efforts, encompassing epidemiological, managerial, and political complexities. The certification of smallpox eradication in the Peopleโ€™s R...

Very pleased to share that my article Navigating resistance in global health governance: Certification of smallpox eradication in China has been published in Global Public Health www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

13.03.2024 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0


๐Ÿ“ขIn the next @wcceh seminar, @DoraVargha @SarahVMarks and I will share our research on @C3Worlds #Socialism, Medicine, and #GlobalHealth After World War II

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ29 February (Thursday)
โฐ 3:00-4:30 pm GMT

๐Ÿ“ Register & more info
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting...

15.02.2024 11:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Early Detection in Dementia This seminar will explore the issues surrounding dementia diagnoses

๐Ÿ“ขJoin us for the @wcceh seminar next week!
๐ŸงฌEarly Detection in Dementia
๐Ÿ“…25 January (Thursday) 3:00-4:30 pm GMT
๐Ÿ“ŒSpeakers
Dr Richard Milne
Dr Alexandra Hillman @AlexHillmanae1
Dr Julia Swallow @JuliaESwallow
๐Ÿ“WCCEH & online
๐Ÿ‘‡Register & more info
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-dete...

18.01.2024 17:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โฐ 28 September (Thursday) 3:00 pm BST
๐Ÿ“Œ#SocialUpheaval and #MedicalHumanities: Intersecting Health, Armed Dissidence, and Contemporary #Protest
๐Ÿ’ซSpeakers: Lucรญa Guerrero Riviรจre, Sebastian Fonseca & C๏ปฟristian Montenegro
๐Ÿ“Register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-uph...

14.09.2023 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0