Claire Turner

Would anyone be interested in reading an early draft of an article I'm writing on charlatanry and cancer in the 18th/19th centuries? Very happy to read something in return!

im not at universal?

academics - what information do you tend to include when referencing historic newspapers (particularly advertisements and notices)?

she has nothing on the lottie mia doll

congratulations!

Huge congratulations to this year’s incoming postdoctoral fellows!

Thank you @srsrensoc.bsky.social for this wonderful opportunity to develop my research 🤩 🎉 I cannot wait to get started with my project on Animals, the environment and the ‘Protestant’ worldview in seventeenth-century Scotland

big thanks to @jackgann.bsky.social for inviting me to participate!

As you can imagine, I’m overjoyed to have contributed to Thackray Museum of Medicine’s newest exhibition on POO! The highlight of my career will forever be my seeing my name hidden inside a toilet seat (right in the centre of the display, of course!).

More info: thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/poo/

A paper towel dispenser typically seen in public toilets. It is labelled "Take a Sheet" and dispenses fun worksheets for museum visitors

A museum display with a poster and objects in a glass case. A text panel reads "Peek-a-Poo". The case is made up of round peep holes through which different shapes of plasticine poo are displayed on perspex blocks. They are the different shapes of the Bristol Stool Chart, made and described by local school kids. A Bristol Stool Chart type 4 is captioned "A smooth, slippery pickle. Looks like a hotdog or a baby's arm".

Twenty toilet seats mounted on a wall. They have questions on the lid ranging from "when?" and "why?" to "can poo be used for medicine?"

A fossilised faeces from the Middle Ages, sitting in a clear petri dish on a perspex block. Colourful neon lights reflect off the surface of the block.

New exhibition opens today.

It's about poo. And answering children's questions.

It's both silly and informative. And can be enjoyed throughout the summer and up to the end of the year.

💩

thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/poo/

Do you host a seminar series or have you seen a recent CFP? Are you looking for speakers working in medical humanities or health histories more broadly? I'm looking for opportunities to present my current postdoctoral research on the history of cancer. My research covers a wide range of themes and approaches, and I can present on any of the following topics: - male genito-urinary cancer cases in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and/or nineteenth centuries. - breastfeeding-related breast cancer cases in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and/or nineteenth centuries. - sensory experiences of cancer in the early modern period. - the 'contagious' nature of cancer in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. - 'cancer-doctors' and charlatanry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I'm particularly keen to broaden my experiences of speaking to a range of academic, non-academic, and interdisciplinary audiences. I'd like to network with health professionals as well as historians and medical humanities scholars. I can also sensitively tailor my work to suit wider audiences including museums, schools, and undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Please consider sharing my research with your colleagues, and if anyone knows of any opportunities to present, please send them my way!

Taken from my LinkedIn - I'm looking for opportunities to present my work to interdisciplinary, academic and non-academic audiences. I haven't seen my CFPs recently (probably due to my algorithm) and wondered whether anyone knew of any opportunities in the coming months. Please share! Thanks!

thanks so much Josh! xxx

thank you lovely!

thank you so much love !!!

thank you!

Excited to share that from October I’ll be working as a Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities at Durham University! I’ll be developing my project on ‘The Sensescapes of Cancer, 1700-1950’ and publishing my PhD research on sensory experiences of plague in early modern London. I can’t wait to start!

A shiny translucent orb sits on a wooden plinth. Inside is a - frankly enormous - human turd. In the background there are colourful test tubes and signs, part of a museum exhibition dressed to look like a fun laboratory.

Thackray has, somewhat unfairly, a reputation for being a museum of "weird shit".

I would counter that this is actually a very ordinary shit. Having it spotlit in the middle of a gallery is a little idiosyncratic, I'll admit.

the final boss of peer reviewers

that was genuinely a funny time in academia

other favourites include 'yummy', 'lunch', and 'pint with the lads' hahahah

Disturbed at the amount of people who responded with the word 'tasty' when asked about our blood exhibition...

there's no way I've just seen an academic position advertised at 0.05FTE lol

Q&A | “We made a lot of plasticine poo” - Museums Association The Thackray Museum’s Jack Gann lifts the lid on its new child-led exhibition

Front page of the @museumsassociation.org Museums Journal website is all job losses, repatriation issues, concerns about Israel... and me saying "we made a lot of plasticine poo"!

www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

thanks so much !!

Do you host a seminar series or have you seen a recent CFP? Are you looking for speakers working in medical humanities or health histories more broadly? I'm looking for opportunities to present my current postdoctoral research on the history of cancer. My research covers a wide range of themes and approaches, and I can present on any of the following topics: - male genito-urinary cancer cases in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and/or nineteenth centuries. - breastfeeding-related breast cancer cases in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and/or nineteenth centuries. - sensory experiences of cancer in the early modern period. - the 'contagious' nature of cancer in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. - 'cancer-doctors' and charlatanry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I'm particularly keen to broaden my experiences of speaking to a range of academic, non-academic, and interdisciplinary audiences. I'd like to network with health professionals as well as historians and medical humanities scholars. I can also sensitively tailor my work to suit wider audiences including museums, schools, and undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Please consider sharing my research with your colleagues, and if anyone knows of any opportunities to present, please send them my way!

Taken from my LinkedIn - I'm looking for opportunities to present my work to interdisciplinary, academic and non-academic audiences. I haven't seen my CFPs recently (probably due to my algorithm) and wondered whether anyone knew of any opportunities in the coming months. Please share! Thanks!

As I said, my research focuses on historic instances of breast cancer, dating back to the late sixteenth century. It is certainly not the case today, but in the past, it was often the case that women who chose not to or could not breastfeed were described as being 'punished'.

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Evidence suggests that breastfeeding reduces your risk of developing breast cancer, rather than the opposite way around: www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer.... Medical professionals have believed this for hundreds of years, but their tone was far more accusatory in the past.

Many of the instances I've come across where a woman's cancer is believed to be caused by her 'refusal' to breast feed use these accusations as an opportunity to reinforce the important physical and moral characteristics of the mother's breast milk.

My research is currently funded by the Society for Renaissance Studies - I'm looking at how we can use historic examples of breastfeeding-related breast cancer cases to reframe the language we use surrounding BF and BC today. There are still too many moral ties connected with cancer diagnoses imo.