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Sad to learn of Guenter Risse‘s passing. He was a friend, mentor and supporter through crucial times in my career and took particular pleasure improving my English. I owe him a lot.

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dann änders: ich jedenfalls warte auf deine einschätzung und habe X längst verlassen

This is the front cover of the new edition of @thelancet.com (thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing) #HealthPolicy #Science 🧪🧵

One week left to enter @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6
Deadline: Sunday 1 February
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities

Looking forward to teaching the history of the #who on the day of a political explosion due to new alcohol guidelines in switzerland. #histmed

Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the Covid report could say | Devi Sridhar To prevent a future pandemic we’d need agile leadership, smart decision-making, humility and trustworthiness. How does one build those into a political system, asks Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global ...

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humans does a lot of work here

OMG how depressing. I am sorry Claire, it really shouldn't be.

Interesting piece. US institutions, and on the European continent also, university systems with fairly different funding structures face contraction, particularly but not exclusively in the humanities.

Hi @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social
CFP for @eurohealthhist.bsky.social session at European Association for Urban History conf in Barcelona (2-5 Sept 2026). Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in 20th Century www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session83 deadline: 22 Oct 2025).

A weird German word in academic circles is Selbstzahler. When conferences organise dinners (or drinks) but expect you to pay your own way. But then again, I remember a wedding do in the UK with a cash bar. The same idea, different context.

Chefarzt fordert radikalen Umbau: «Ich sehe keinen vernünftigen Grund, eine Vielzahl von Krankenkassen zu betreiben» Andreas Kistler sieht in den Marktmechanismen im Gesundheitswesen einen Grund für die Kostenexplosion. Die Spitäler würde er in eine nationale Gesundheitsorganisation integrieren.

#Gesundheitswesen #Gesundheitskosten #Schweiz Tolles Interview mit Andreas Kistler zu Gesundheitskosten. Marktwirtschaftliche Organisation ohne Regulierung (und Koordination) versagt. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/krankenkasse...

Speaking as a journal editor, an academic teacher, examiner and mentor, yes.

I feel your pain

#histmed reviewer 3: "Just a historical paper with limited scientific value" - and how is your Monday going?

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

William Foege and 8 other former CDC directors

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!

Devi Sridhar: living a long life isn’t a solo endeavour Our podcast on science and technology. Why government policy is key to increasing life expectancy

Your health has more to do with where you live than “what you individually do”, says Devi Sridhar on “Babbage”

Another Magic Mountain Kibong’oto Hospital, opened in 1926, is an East African tuberculosis treatment center located on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Its history is crucial to...

Interesting new book by old friend and #histmed colleague Christoph Gradmann: Another Magic Mountain: Kibong’oto Hospital and African Tuberculosis, 1920-2000 (Ohio University Press, 2025).

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Österreich - die ganze Geschichte - Hunger, Überfluss, Identität – Österreichs Ernährungsgeschichte Diese Episode zeichnet die Geschichte der Ernährung in Österreich nach: von der höfischen Überfülle bis zur Mangelwirtschaft der Weltkriege, von bäuerlichen Essgewohnheiten bis zur heutigen Überflussg...

Das "Zeitalter der Extreme" durch die Linse der Ernährung: Das ist das Thema meines vierten und letzten Podcasts zur ORF-Serie "Österreich - die ganze Geschichte".

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Congratulations - amazing recognition of your work

Zollfestung Schweiz: Sieben Fragen zum Agrarprotektionismus - Avenir Suisse Kennen Sie Donald Trumps Lieblingswort? Es heisst «tariffs», also Zölle. Trumps Ankündigung, gegen fast jedes Land im Minimum 10% Zölle zu erheben, treibt

Switzerland raises, on average, 25% import duties on agricultural products. For cheese, meat & vegetables often in excess of 100%. Consumers pay this, and popular votes regularly confirm the pillars of protectionist policies. Info from here (in German): www.avenir-suisse.ch/blog-zollfes...

Hanes: Sexual assault trials involving hockey players raise questions about locker-room bro culture The Hockey Canada trial and two other recent cases had different outcomes, but troubling similarities.

Great opinion piece in the @mtlgazette.bsky.social on recent court decisions regarding Canadian pro hockey players. www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

Flagship article - congratulations!

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So proud of the Swiss women‘s team tonight at the #euro2025 - fighting quality until the end.

An old dream - to see the NHS as a stop-gap solution until prevention and community health solve all problems. It failed before, and it does not take a rocket scientist to predict it will fail again. The real irony is how little the health secretary knows (or indeed cares) about history.

Miasma Theory: A Primer I recently received an unusual request—could I explain miasma theory to an NPR reporter? Miasma theory is suddenly newsworthy, roughly 150 years after germ theory displaced this explanation for the…

Read this, bookmark it, download it (& print it, too, if you want to go all out). But make sure you & yours know that medical history ( #histmed) has a solid response to the nonsense our HHS secretary is spouting. nursingclio.org/2025/06/30/m... 🧪🗃️ And follow @nursingclio.bsky.social. #MiasmaTheory

At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...