Lu Chen

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 Italiano…1642 (The Met, NY).

tinyurl.com/uvzjs9py

#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)!

#EAHMH25 Fascinating ongoing Lunch Roundtable around Bruno Strasser and Thomas Schlich’s book Making the Medical Mask: a History of Breathing Bad Air

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.

The Mask is discussed by David Gentilcore, Christoph Gradmann, @ahlie.bsky.social and @luchen.bsky.social

#eahmh25 #histmed

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":

「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」

-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem

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

Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar Monthly Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar, September 10

Join us tomorrow to hear Pierre-Marie David from Université de Montréal on his new book, "Opération 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...

“Stop looking north, look to the world”. Can we imagine Global Health without the USA at its centre? How should the world respond when a single country’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...

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

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....

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

🗓️29 February (Thursday)
⏰ 3:00-4:30 pm GMT

📍 Register & more info
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting...

Early Detection in Dementia This seminar will explore the issues surrounding dementia diagnoses

📢Join us for the @wcceh seminar next week!
🧬Early Detection in Dementia
📅25 January (Thursday) 3:00-4:30 pm GMT
📌Speakers
Dr Richard Milne
Dr Alexandra Hillman @AlexHillmanae1
Dr Julia Swallow @JuliaESwallow
📍WCCEH & online
👇Register & more info
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-dete...

⏰ 28 September (Thursday) 3:00 pm BST
📌#SocialUpheaval and #MedicalHumanities: Intersecting Health, Armed Dissidence, and Contemporary #Protest
💫Speakers: Lucía Guerrero Rivière, Sebastian Fonseca & Cristian Montenegro
📍Register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-uph...