Lydia Wytenbroek

YouTube video by Lydia Wytenbroek Indigenous Nursing Leaders in Canada

Take a look at our video on Indigenous Nurse Leaders in Canada: youtu.be/V7lNpPvQGRo?... It is part of our project, Untelling Nursing History: Centering the Voices of BIPOC Nurses, which includes an interactive website and 11 videos r/t decolonizing nursing history. @ubc-vnursing.bsky.social

Thanks! It was definitely unanticipated and bad timing! BTW, I cite some of your work in an article coming out soon. :)

I was walking around a track yesterday evening when someone kicked a soccer ball over a fence and it hit me directly in the head - very hard - and now I have a concussion. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Happening this Friday from 12-1 pm Eastern time!

Join us for Lydia Wytenbroek presenting "Icons and Illustrations: American Nursing in Iran Through Images and Artefacts"

Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...

#histnursing #histmed

US nursing history in Iran #histnursing

"Eugenics was rooted in rational modern science then" needs re-stating. Far too many people describe eugenics as a "pseudoscience", but it wasn't to those who studied it, wrote books and papers, formed societies and argued its benefits.

EVENT COMING UP with BC Physicians Against Genocide: Health Report from Gaza w Dr Deirdre Nunan and CCJ Co-Director @naomiaklein.bsky.social. Sept 8, 7pm; in person & hybrid. RSVP in the links on webpage: climatejustice.ubc.ca/events/event...

Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity. Deadline to apply: October 1, 2025. #cdnhist @dalhistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...

PhD Scholarship: Pacific Powers - Flinders University

Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

Against the Very Idea of the Politicization of Public Health Policy I criticize the concern over the politicization of public health policy as a justification for preferring a narrow to a broad model of public health. My critique proceeds along 2 lines. First, the fac...

The politicization of public health is neither a new phenomenon nor something that can be overcome. I wish it were otherwise but it's not.

(This is not to deny some of the unique problems we are experiencing in public health at this particular moment. But still).

Roots to Routes: why South Asian Heritage Month matters to the NHS

My piece for The RCP Commentary Magazine for #SouthAsianHeritageMonth.

This is my lovely Mum and Dad in 1969.

Immigrants helped build the NHS

www.rcp.ac.uk/78702?utm_so...

Children's Spaces With No Children Have we lost our very minds?

“I promised myself that if I ever got to the other side of it, if it ever got easier, I would view small moments of personal inconvenience in service of our shared humanity and inclusion as a sacrifice I am grateful to make.”

Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians Guardian investigation finds number killed in April attack by Rapid Support Forces far greater than current estimates

"More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime of the country’s catastrophic conflict."

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“There is no value-add to using generative AI for historical work…And when it comes to writing history, I feel very strongly that the value of searching for and using words to brainstorm, draft, redraft, polish writing skills, and discover our own thinking is paramount.”

Free book from @illinoispress.bsky.social:

Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed, foreword by Darlene Clark Hine

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A woman with wavy gray and brown hair stands confidently outdoors in front of a brick building. She is wearing blue glasses, a black leather jacket, and layered necklaces. Her arms are crossed, and she is smiling warmly. Decorative street lamps and trimmed hedges are visible in the background.

We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Leslie Reagan's keynote theme for our 75th/50th Anniversary Celebration: “Doing Histories of Medicine and Public Health: A Radical Project,” promises to be a powerful highlight of the evening!
📍 10/9/2025, 5:30–7:30 PM, Pyle Center
Register: bit.ly/45GtfR4 #OnWisconsin

Do Less Harm is FINALLY here! Y'all should buy like 12 copies each k thanks

Register now (deadline is 8/5) for Term 1 online courses: Introduction to the History of Medicine; Science & the practice of medicine; Work of Healing: Medicine & Materiality.

For more info: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/non-degree-p...
To register: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/online-progr...

"...adopting a critical approach to settler family histories helps challenge the myth of Canadian benevolence, solidifies our understanding of the foundational violence of settler colonialism, and exemplifies the truth–telling that needs to come with settler reconciliation to Indigenous Peoples..."

History is not easy. You can't just read a book or two and call it a day.

Journals, of all disciplines, MUST do better. Stop publishing "historical" research without consulting actual historians who work in the field.

#MedMed #HistMed #MedievalSky #Skystorians

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A plea:

I am 100% here for interdisciplinary work. But that work actually has to be INTERDISCIPLINARY: people working together across fields.

Not just someone from one field thinking that history is "easy" and, for that reason, "anyone can do it.

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#HistMed #Skystorians #Medievalsky

I knew y’all would deliver.

But DANG did y’all DELIVER. 🥹

This is one heck of a reading list, for my class, for me (about 1/2 of these are new to me! yay!), and for anyone interested in the history of disease!

#HistMed

"So once you’re equipped with information, your next stop is the app store on your phone. There’s an app for every landmark on your journey. Just accept the terms, download, and follow the prompts. And stay alert to the health news filling your inbox. It is on you to journey safely, and older advice can lead you straight off a cliff."

On the fiction that we're in total control of our health.

Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️

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Teaching a course this fall on contagion in history (pandemics, epidemics, understanding how people understood how disease spread, etc) this fall. Super excited about this one.

Any recommendations for accessible, engaging, and/or fun sources for first semester freshmen?

#histmed #skystorians

The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory - World Peace Foundation This new book investigates modern famines by shifting the focus from whether, to how and why famines are political.

Have a new book to read:

worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/the-pol...

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

The Mask A history of masks protecting against bad air—in cities, factories, hospitals, and war trenches—exploring how our identities and beliefs shape the decisi...

One of my favorite #histmed #histstm scholars @thomasschlich.bsky.social has just joined Bluesky. Check out his and @brunostrasser.bsky.social’s latest work on the history of the mask:

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

More good reading on humanities workforce surpluses here. profession.mla.org/the-humaniti....

A color photo of a the cover of Osiris volume 40, titled Animal mobility’s. Edited by Tamar Novick, Lisa Onaga, and Gabriel N Rosenberg. The cover includes an Ann Mac Coy painting The Night Sea at Life

A color photo of the journal open to the first pages of my article ‘My eyes and my Friend: the mobilities and immobilities of guide dogs in the Twentieth century.’ It is seared on a heated pad seated on my lap.

I’ve been working on this publication since 2018 in one way or the other, and it’s a delight to hold the physical copy of the paper in Osiris, volume 40, 2025 in my hands.
if you would like to read the histories of guide dogs beyond the Europe and North America into Japan and Australia—here it is.

We’re at the heart and soul of the project of higher ed in the US, we teach students crucially valuable skills for the workplace, we are in the classroom far more than our peers, and we do so with extreme economic efficiency that in most places is profitable for our colleges./15