As is characteristic of his generocity to colleagues & students, Guenter "requested this retrospective of his life be published after his passing in gratitude for all the people who influenced his life and assisted him in his academic career" www.gbrisse.com/blog
Really great article on Shere Hite - a history graduate nonetheless. Her pioneering role for #gendermedicine cannot be overestimated.
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
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.
#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?
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!
Your health has more to do with where you live than “what you individually do”, says Devi Sridhar on “Babbage”
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).
doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...
www.ohioswallow.com/978082142633...
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".
sound.orf.at/podcast/tv/o...
Congratulations - amazing recognition of your work
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...
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.
