Christine Slobogin

Love seeing love for @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social !

All three seasons available on Apple Podcasts or Spotify - with a fourth season hopefully coming this year!

VACANCY - we are looking for a new early modern British colleague to join us at Warwick! Thematic focus open, with interests in religious change and/or social relations particularly welcome. Full details at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

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It’s been an exciting week at AAHM! 🎉

We're hiring two Social Media Coordinators to support the day-to-day management of our social media channels & help drive digital engagement.

Learn more here: histmed.org/join-aahm-as...

Thanks Soha!

Scott Galloway is wrong about dads and childbirth He called it “disgusting” for fathers, but that’s not what my research has found

Scott Galloway recently told Derek Thompson on his podcast that childbirth is “disgusting” and “unnatural” for dads. I’ve studied fathers' experience of childbirth in my lab for years, and I think Galloway is wrong. darbysaxbe.substack.com/p/scott-gall...

Problems with Plastic Toys - The Strong National Museum of Play By: Alexander Parry, 2025 Strong Research Fellow In December 2021, TIME journalist Emily Barone published an editorial about the conflict between her and her children over plastic toys. Barone explain...

Why are so many commercial toys made of plastic?

My new essay for The Strong National Museum of Play shows how safety concerns have alternately fueled and slowed the spread of plastic toys since the 1950s.
www.museumofplay.org/blog/problem...

If you’re a fan of the pod or just looking for a small gig, pls help us out with some new (spooky, fun) music! Pls share widely

Update (and Hello!) Podcast Episode · Drawing Blood · 19 February · 1m

Calling all musicians / producers! We’re looking for someone to make new [& on brand] music for the show, and possibly also join our sound production team.

Listen to the full announcement on:

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/25Yz...

Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Exactly!! That's part of the argument that I make!

Four dental phantoms sitting on stands with square bases. The tops of these dental phantoms are polished, shiny silver, with the denture-like false teeth, mouths wide open, framed by pink or orange-pink gums.

As part of the new special issue on "The Intersection of Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry," you can now read open access my article "The Dental Phantom as a Tool for Exploring Fear, the Face, and Dental Education." 🦷

Hoping to turn this into a much bigger project!

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NCHED team: Nathan Carlin, Nanette Elster, Catherine Flaitz, Nick Mercado, Laurie Munro, Chelsey Patten, @joellerp.bsky.social, Margie Hodges Shaw, @mattwynia.bsky.social, and Michael Yunker.

The first of two special issues from the NCHED team has been published in the Journal of the American College of Dentists!

🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷

NCHED has been working for two years to shine a light on work being done at the intersection of humanities & ethics in dentistry.

commons.ada.org/cgi/viewcont...

A wall with many posters for academic events, including a poster for my talk on my book _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_, which includes the cover of the book, my name, and my headshot in a light blue blazer.

The famous "Touchdown Jesus" mural on the Notre Dame library against a bright blue sky. The mural includes a haloed Jesus in white robes at the top with his arms held aloft. Figures surround him to the sides and under him.

The inside of the basilica on Notre Dame's campus, resplendant in blues and golds, with white columns, angels on the arched ceilings, and brown pews.

The outside of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art with a sign saying "150 Years" out front. The building has white Ionic columns on either side of the tall, arched door and the façade is white marble. The sky above is bright blue and there is a sunburst to the right of the photograph.

Thank you to @pyarseth.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about my book at the Reilly Center @notredame.bsky.social !

Students & faculty had excellent Qs for me about art & plastic surgery; I had a blast visiting Hip Hop Public Health class; and I loved spending time at the Raclin Murphy Museum.

📆 A week from today 📆 - @andrewlea.bsky.social will be speaking at Corner Society! Register to attend in person or on Zoom here: www.raom.org/event-6469091

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

Gambling is already an addiction-prone activity. But we’ve married it to the engagement strategies of social media and the 24/7 availability of the internet.

That is insane. What chance do users stand? How is anyone with even the slightest problem gambling tendencies supposed to resist?

Christine Slobogin: "Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain" Christine Slobogin's new book, Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain, shows ...

If anybody at or around Notre Dame wants to hear me talk about my book, Feb 17 is your chance!

reilly.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

GEORGE WASHINGTON CORNER SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Who's in Whose Pocket? Reference Tools, Industry Interests, and the Quest for Therapeutic Reform Wednesday, February 25, 2026 5:30 pm Lecture 6:30 - 7:15 pm Social Gathering Physicians have carried practical guides for centuries. These tools—variously called “manuals," “handbooks,” “pocket remembrancers,” or more commonly, “vade mecums” (Latin for “go with me”) — served as on-the-go memory stimuli. Nineteenth-century manuals, such as Robert Hooper’s The Physician’s Vade-Mecum sought to “compress” for the busy physician the vast expanse of descriptive medical knowledge into a useful companion. This act of compression resulted in a knowledge bottleneck: with such limited space, including certain kinds of information invariably came at the expense of other types of information. The vade mecum would therefore become a contested site over what counted as “appropriate,” “important,” and “rational” medical knowledge. This lecture explores these themes by focusing on the American Medical Association’s Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (CPC), which, in the early 1930s, created a vade mecum to counter the excesses of proprietary drug manufacturers and inculcate a rational approach to medical therapeutics. Andrew Lea is an assistant professor of health humanities and bioethics at the University of Rochester and a general internist at the Strong Memorial Hospital. His research explores the history of artificial intelligence, communications media, and information technology in medicine and has appeared in leading historical and medical journals, including Isis and the New England Journal of Medicine. His first book, Digitizing Diagnosis, examined early efforts to computerize medical diagnosis and decision-making. He is working on his second book, Aid to Thought: A History of the Peripheral Brain in Medicine. Register here: https://www.raom.org/event-6469091

Corner Society is back for the spring semester!

This month's speaker is our very own @andrewlea.bsky.social - come out to the Rochester Academy of Medicine (or watch on Zoom) to hear his talk "Who's in Whose Pocket? Reference Tools, Industry Interests, and the Quest for Therapeutic Reform"

Register here: www.raom.org/event-6469091

GEORGE WASHINGTON CORNER SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Who's in Whose Pocket? Reference Tools, Industry Interests, and the Quest for Therapeutic Reform Wednesday, February 25, 2026 5:30 pm Lecture 6:30 - 7:15 pm Social Gathering Physicians have carried practical guides for centuries. These tools—variously called “manuals," “handbooks,” “pocket remembrancers,” or more commonly, “vade mecums” (Latin for “go with me”) — served as on-the-go memory stimuli. Nineteenth-century manuals, such as Robert Hooper’s The Physician’s Vade-Mecum sought to “compress” for the busy physician the vast expanse of descriptive medical knowledge into a useful companion. This act of compression resulted in a knowledge bottleneck: with such limited space, including certain kinds of information invariably came at the expense of other types of information. The vade mecum would therefore become a contested site over what counted as “appropriate,” “important,” and “rational” medical knowledge. This lecture explores these themes by focusing on the American Medical Association’s Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (CPC), which, in the early 1930s, created a vade mecum to counter the excesses of proprietary drug manufacturers and inculcate a rational approach to medical therapeutics. Andrew Lea is an assistant professor of health humanities and bioethics at the University of Rochester and a general internist at the Strong Memorial Hospital. His research explores the history of artificial intelligence, communications media, and information technology in medicine and has appeared in leading historical and medical journals, including Isis and the New England Journal of Medicine. His first book, Digitizing Diagnosis, examined early efforts to computerize medical diagnosis and decision-making. He is working on his second book, Aid to Thought: A History of the Peripheral Brain in Medicine. Register here: https://www.raom.org/event-6469091

Corner Society is back for the spring semester!

This month's speaker is our very own @andrewlea.bsky.social - come out to the Rochester Academy of Medicine (or watch on Zoom) to hear his talk "Who's in Whose Pocket? Reference Tools, Industry Interests, and the Quest for Therapeutic Reform"

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
👇👇👇

@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

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What really gets to me about generative AI, especially art, images and videos, is that it is so clearly a technology designed to enrich the companies and the wealthy by stealing the labor, creativity, efforts, ideas and time of actually creative human beings. Why partake in this?

Sick Jokes Cover

Sick Jokes content

A sneak peak of our new book, Sick Jokes, which shares some of the best medical humanities research happening around visual humour & health! It's been so great to work on this w/ our contributors. On the @manchesterup.bsky.social website come spring 🌱 @slobogin.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social

Less skidding / ice on the way home than on the way in to the office, thank goodness!

(And thank you!!)

Thanks Rebecca!

@rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @pederclark.bsky.social @sbayoumi.bsky.social

"Even at death’s door, his body speaks back – eyes daring you to make him the ‘butt’ of any joke."

We are grateful to be able to use this photograph on the cover of our book, and grateful to have published Jo's excellent scholarship on this and other of Tom Shearer's portraits and publications.

"...holding eye contact with a public that too often looked away or looked only to feel righteous sadness… His look is the punchline, an invitation into a world of queer resistance and humour aesthetic that Diseased Pariah News built..." (contd)

"Shearer insists we laugh and grieve with his image on different terms. This is an image for those who can read the joke and feel the intimacy in it. Shearer is both performer and patient, camp icon and dying friend..." (contd)