We are delighted to announce the 2025 History of Healthcare Awards recipients!

Since 2015, this program has supported over 80 historians in investigating Canada's history of health, disease, and medicine.

Read more here:
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I understand why people get frustrated when liberals fixate on things like ICE wearing masks. But the masks symbolize something very dangerous, the very thing people frustrated with liberals are worried about—absolute impunity from a secret police who report directly to a fascist.

Violet Affleck’s impassioned call at #UNGA80 for masking and clean #indoorair is the latest episode in the long —and always controversial— history of masks. To explore the earlier chapters and better understand what’s happening today, check out our book!
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Book launch with a most interesting panel. Looking forward to the discussions.

Lisa, thanks for your kind words! Enjoying Bluesky and the posts from you and others.

📣5 five-year postdoc positions at University of Edinburgh
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Projit Mukharji opens his lecture at #EAHMH25 with the following point: 1/3 of all human beings live either in China or India. Yet, most scholarship in #histmed is about Western biomedicine.

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Congratulations to Heidi Hausse! #eahmh25 @manchesterup.bsky.social

Fascinating talk by Laura Smith on J. Marion Sims and the mechanisms by which he “whitewashed” the Black enslaved patients he experimented on in his medical publications
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#EAHMH25 Fascinating ongoing Lunch Roundtable around Bruno Strasser and Thomas Schlich’s book Making the Medical Mask: a History of Breathing Bad Air

@brunostrasser.bsky.social presents his book "The Mask" written with Thomas Schlich, a book that tells the story till the 1970s.

Published by @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

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

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What does a true Brit feel when we commemorate the war or fly the St George flag? Depends on the Brit | Mihir Bose Politicians love a single, unifying narrative, but it’s more complicated for those of us who see UK life and history through a different lens, says author and broadcaster Mihir Bose

While immigrants are being demonised and dehumanised in most European countries, here is a reminder that Europe, for most of its history, has sent its migrants to all corners of the planet, doing much damage to indigenous populations.

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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).

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“Worse Things Than Dying”: The Entangled History of the Anti-Mask and Anti-Vaccination Movements - Yale University Press Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser— In May 2024 at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, DC, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., recalled that, during the pandemic, he was asked whether... READ MOR...

On the entangled history anti-mask and antiv-vacc:
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Plastics in health care: rethinking medical device innovation, use, and disposal for sustainability Around the world, some 16 billion plastic syringes and 15 billion face masks are thrown away each year.1,2 Unknown in the first half of the 20th century, the global production, circulation, and dispos...

The final negotiation round for the Global Plastic Treaty Begins today. Check out our essays in The Lancet on how plastics became so central in healthcare and what cam be done to reduce their use.
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Opinion: A mask is never just a mask Long before the pandemic, masks carried historical baggage and cultural meanings

Authors of The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air, Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser, on why a mask is never just a mask.