@katharinemurphy.bsky.social and I are very grateful to @cforsdick.bsky.social for wrapping up our takeover of @the-polyphony.bsky.social and for his generous words about the @readingbodies.bsky.social project π
24.10.2025 14:00 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
My post is up! Thanks to the editors of The Polyphony and to @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @oliviaglaze.bsky.social for providing a space to discuss how past cultural narratives are shaping our present.
23.10.2025 13:09 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Hot off the press! So happy to share our extended special issue of JRS on 'Reading bodies: narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond)'. π©Ίπ @profstevenwilson.bsky.social @ryanlor.bsky.social @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
16.09.2025 10:50 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 4 π 1
As part of our Special Issue, I wrote my first article engaging with Disability Studies & crip theory (eek) and discovered the brilliant work of @sunaura.bsky.social, Γlaina Gauthier-Mamaril & @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social, among others. I couldnβt recommend their work more!
π tinyurl.com/2emhnz7w
16.09.2025 11:04 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 4 π 1
Contents | Journal of Romance Studies 25, 3
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Thrilled that @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my co-edited Special Issue is now out in the Journal of Romance Studies! π Huge thanks to our contributors across French, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese studiesβshowing the value of a multilingual approach to the Medical Humanities: tinyurl.com/mrxmznsm
16.09.2025 10:24 β π 15 π 7 π¬ 2 π 1
A poster advertising the webinar. Text reads: "Why are women's symptoms so often dismissed, misdiagnosed, or disbelieved? This webinar explores the intersection of chronic illness, gender bias, and the credibility gap in healthcare. Drawing on research from her upcoming book, Dr Eilidh Galbraith examines how structural inequalities and medical misogyny shape diagnostic practices, clinical listening, and the ethics of care. Through shared lived experience with panelists Charli Clement, author of "All tangled up in autism and chronic illness," Natalie Busari, founder of "the Nerve of my MS" and Tanya Marlow, speaker and author of "Those who Wait" (2017), this session invites participants to reflect on what it means to be heard and to be believed in a system that too often fails those in pain."
"Incredible Women: Chronic Pain, Credibility, and Gender Bias"
π Wednesday 17th Sept, 6.30pm on MS Teams
π’ Dr Eilidh Galbraith discusses the findings of her @abdndivinity.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk research project with a panel of guests.
π DM me for event link or see poster for details!
11.09.2025 08:35 β π 23 π 12 π¬ 0 π 1
So excited to share this open-access resource, shaped by real stories of burnout from our creative writing workshops & anthology. Hoping it shows how languages research can make a difference in healthcare spaces!
10.09.2025 13:04 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
π¨JOB KLAXONπ¨
We are recruiting five 5-year postdoctoral fellows to work with us. Each post will be attached to a specific case study on the project (Abortion Care, AI, Physician Associates and/or LGBTQ+ Health Activism).
At:University of Edinburgh
Starting: April 2026
Deadline: 2 October 2025
26.08.2025 14:54 β π 12 π 13 π¬ 1 π 4
Publishing today - Feeling blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social π
The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt.
Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com π - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series.
#histmed
19.08.2025 09:06 β π 19 π 9 π¬ 0 π 1
ποΈ Elena Semino, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University joins host Dr. Joe Bianco to discuss the subtle and surprising ways that language π£οΈ and humor π shape health experiences π.
18.08.2025 13:08 β π 12 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
Fantastic to have MADE For Health back on Lancaster University campus this week as part of the Social Enterprise in Residence scheme!
MADE For Health are a company whose mission is to transform hospital architecture by putting patients and clinicians at the heart of the design process π₯β€οΈ
16.07.2025 08:34 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Join us at the British Academy on Tue 24 β Wed 25 June, for a conference exploring ethical and political issues that can arise in the context of communicating about health and health care, bringing together experts in philosophical ethics and health practice.
Book your ticket: buff.ly/NsoFDd6
18.06.2025 08:02 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 2
A copy of the book The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities
I just received my copy of The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, feat. a lengthy introduction my @drgavinmiller.bsky.social and I, and a chapter on pregnancy from me. #medicalhumanities #sf #sciencefiction #disabilitystudies
25.03.2025 07:59 β π 41 π 10 π¬ 5 π 0
...in a coupla weeks time...
20.05.2025 15:58 β π 17 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
Toward Multilingual Narrative Medicine
How could narrative medicine support healthcare professionalsβ linguistic skills and sense of social belonging? Anna Ovaska, Sonja Sulkava, Viola Parente-ΔapkovΓ‘ and Riitta JytilΓ€ share their experβ¦
How could narrative medicine support healthcare professionalsβ linguistic skills and sense of social belonging? Anna Ovaska and colleagues share their experiences of developing a new narrative medicine reading group model in Finland.
thepolyphony.org/2025/05/29/m...
29.05.2025 11:15 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
*Interdisciplinary Disease and Narrative Workshop!* Register below for this in-person event @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Arts 103 on Weds 18th June (5.00-7.15pm) hosted by @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & 19CC Bham to explore sensational tales of disease:
15.05.2025 10:51 β π 13 π 7 π¬ 1 π 1
Thank you so much to everyone who attended this event last week, and in particular Sarah Moss, @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @laurasalisbury.bsky.social. If you couldnβt attend - fear not! - you can find a recording of the conversation on our website: readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk/2025/05/16/w...
16.05.2025 10:29 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
@okhromeychuk.bsky.social 'We Are War: On Bearing Witness and Sharing Pain' talk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social 4 June, 5-5pm + reception and book signing
@exetercityoflit.bsky.social
@ukrinstitute.bsky.social
12.05.2025 10:17 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
@okhromeychuk.bsky.social 'Trigger Warning: A Workshop on Writing Pain' @exeterphoenix.bsky.social 3 June 5-6.30pm
@exetercityoflit.bsky.social
@uniofexeterhass.bsky.social
@ukrinstitute.bsky.social
12.05.2025 10:14 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
The conference logo. On the right is a matrix of interconnected black lines with a mixture of orange, teal and pink circles marking the insertions. On the left is the text 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions, Intersections, Contradictions'.
Registration for the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions is now open!
ποΈ 24-26 June 2025 (single day tickets available)
πIn-person at Durham University, or online
π www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-n...
07.05.2025 10:38 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
For those very few remaining people who are not yet sick of listening me to talk about my book, Iβve sent in the final revised manuscript!!
πCatherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticityπ
FORTHCOMING with Edinburgh University Press early 2026!
07.05.2025 10:45 β π 13 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1
Happening next Wednesday - everyone welcome!
28.04.2025 14:18 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Join our next Media and Epidemics research seminar on Tuesday 6th May at 10am (Central European Time) when @M_Zdrodowska will discuss βThe Mediated Practices and Narratives of Care: Artists and Activists Under Lockdownβ about #COVID19 and #disabilitystudies. Scan QR code for Zoom link β¬οΈ #medhums
28.04.2025 14:14 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 2
Speaks four languages but mostly swears in Danish. Has been known to leave Manhattan. All opinions are my own.
PhD student in English Literature at KU Leuven π¬π§ππ§πͺ
Birkbeck PhD student interested in surrogacy memoirs/ medical humanities; English teacher. I like books...
Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) | Global War Against the Rat project, zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies & visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl1
Welcome to the official profile of the Department of Global Humanities at Suffolk University, in the heart of Boston. We are an interdisciplinary and international department offering a wide variety of majors, minors, and programs.
Exploring disruption & transformation of medicine with Play, Funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org
@ingridkyoung.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social
@agomoni.bsky.social @cathm.bsky.social
@thelovetankcic.bsky.social
Cdn settler in Scotland. Carer. Immigrant.
Sociologist researching social cultural & ethical issues in HIV, sexual health, LGBTQ health, biotech & chronic illness. Reader @UofEdinburgh
She/her
www.disabilityfutures.uk medicinewithoutdoctors.org
Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva
Prof Social History, Fribourg University
History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics
She/her. Breast cancer survivor
Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
Reader in Early Modern History at Uni of Herts. Working on reproductive histories, particularly miscarriage and pregnancy loss c.1600-1780.
Also likes baking cakes
PhD in medical humanities from University of Glasgow on Scottish psychiatrist Thomas Ferguson Rodger
Professor in #Histmed #Histsci π§ͺat @uahes.bsky.social; I research in #HistMidwifery and #HistBirth; President of LVCINA, Spanish Society of History of Birth and Secretary of Spanish Society of History of Sciences. Member of @eurohealthhist.bsky.social
Historian of sexual health, sexual violence and HIV/AIDS. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Usually found reading or swimming.
Historian, IEH2, University of Geneva
History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. Current: https://wetdreams.hypotheses.org/ ποΈπΈ
Passionate about literature and theatre.
She/her
https://nina-studer.com
PhD student at Lancaster University researching the continued use of bloodletting 1750-1900π©Έ
History of medicine: antiquity & early modern
Powered by coffee βοΈ | Owned by dogs πΆπΆ
The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.deβ¬.
Currently closed due to renovation works.
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
Historian of science and medicine. Proponent of Postcolonial science studies. Author of Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (Cambridge, 2018); Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory (MIT)
Social scientist. Co-Director Centre for Healthcare Innovation, Policy & Management, University of Leicester School of Business. Editor-in-Chief Journal of Health Services Research & Policy https://journals.sagepub.com/home/HSR
The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. Celebrating our centennial, 1925-2025! #histmed
