RTing this for the historians/literature scholars of death who follow me. Superb
29.07.2025 10:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@richardtbellis.bsky.social
Historian of anatomy, disease, and medical books. Associate Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Medical school, Uni of St Andrews. Support Chester FC and edit the fanzine The Blue & White.
RTing this for the historians/literature scholars of death who follow me. Superb
29.07.2025 10:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Finally, it analyses how data was consciously deployed by the eugenics society in their creation of 'facts' about the disabled and highlights the historical prominence given to these numbers and relative paucity of work on the disabled people who engaged with and set the agenda for eugenic research
29.07.2025 09:00 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Second, it highlights the role of disabled people as both consumers of and creators of eugenic propaganda by explorong letters sent to the eugenics society by disabled people which have not previously been considered in this context
29.07.2025 08:49 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0There are a few findings in this article that I think will be of broad interest. First, it shows that eugenic sterilisation did happen in 1930s Britain, despite the failure of the eugenics society to secure legislation for it.
29.07.2025 08:46 โ ๐ 38 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2ICYMI: In 2012, Jess Ainscough celebrated 2yrs of โintense detoxification and nutritional treatmentโ via the Gerson therapy: โCancer is something I will always manage with my clean lifestyle.โ
Read my essay on quackery in @sciencehistory.org's Distillations
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
Congratulations!
17.07.2025 12:20 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.
Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research
02.07.2025 15:34 โ ๐ 6103 ๐ 1630 ๐ฌ 90 ๐ 56Academia.edu is running papers through AI to create โpodcastsโ summarizing your work. So theyโre feeding AI your work and the podcasts are utter horseshit as expected. Time to delete the old account.
27.06.2025 19:41 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward!
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Poster advertising an oral history project on South Asian Medical practitioners in Scotland. Please get in touch with monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk if you know anyone who worked/studied in the medical field in Scotland who is of South Asian heritage.
My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed
30.05.2025 15:19 โ ๐ 40 ๐ 55 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Delighted to have a new article out with the superb Sally Frampton, Gina Hadley, @harbottlestores.bsky.social et al on current challenges facing medical humanities academics teaching in UK medical schools. Many opportunities but cohesion necessary for an effective future
doi.org/10.1007/s405...
This story has repeated every year since the 90s: โAt a conference last year, Robert Goldstein, the chief operating officer of BlackRock, the worldโs biggest money manager, said โWe have more and more conviction that we need people who majored in history, โฆโ
17.05.2025 13:04 โ ๐ 193 ๐ 44 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 4Fantastic thread. Nuanced - but still devastating - critique of Starmerโs position on migration
15.05.2025 18:25 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Very happy to announce that the final conference of The Global War Against the Rat project, on the topic of Zoonosis as a Historical & Anthropological Question, will be taking place on June 16-17 (in-person only) - programme link here: wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/zoonosis-as-...
14.05.2025 13:26 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is the nub of it: a group of US billionaires, many explicitly hostile to UK democracy, have bet tens of billions of dollars on a business model that they now realise is flawed, and they are lobbying for a compulsory bailout from millions of UK citizens - through free access to our life's work.
14.05.2025 08:24 โ ๐ 25 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โThe damage this has done to our country is incalculable.โ This sentence would feel right at home in some of the 1970s Monday Club/National Front material that I read for Imperial Island.
12.05.2025 10:18 โ ๐ 265 ๐ 73 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 2A Labour message could be "we're proud of Britain's top-class universities & we're going to make sure every penny goes on teaching & research. We stand for students & staff against the bosses".
Instead, it's "Farage is right: universities need a kicking. So we'll look a bit cross & hope that works"
On Saturday I'll be in Leeds at the Thackray Museum of Medicine to discuss the history of human remains and their place in current collections. Do join if you can!
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...
On Saturday I'll be in Leeds at the Thackray Museum of Medicine to discuss the history of human remains and their place in current collections. Do join if you can!
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...
FT: #ChesterFC 2-1 Buxton FC.
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We'll see you in Kidderminster, Seals. ๐
#CFCBUX | #UTS
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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๐งตNOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone โwhy do you think thatโs so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?โ
This was their response:
Quite cool to read in print an article I've written. Not exactly Oscar Wilde but hope people like it ๐ดโโ๏ธ๐ป๐
17.04.2025 11:10 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@islayshelbourne.bsky.social reports from the inaugural symposium of the newly formed Medical Humanities Network at the University of St Andrews, drawing out shared themes and methods across disciplines. Organised by @richardtbellis.bsky.social & Morven Shearer.
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/16/s...
Trans women are women and no court judgement can change that. Without wanting to diminish the negative effect that legal oppression has on trans lives, there is no reason why lawyers and judges are qualified to make this argument over actual experts in the field.
16.04.2025 08:54 โ ๐ 539 ๐ 170 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 3Delighted with the win today. Made the 6 hour drive to Chester plus hour driving fanzines/my brother around all worth it! #coyb
12.04.2025 17:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Issue 38 is out tomorrow at the home game against Darlington.
We'll be selling the fanzine in the club shop and at the corner of the Harry Mac/east stand. It's still ยฃ2.
If you are going to miss us, you can pick a copy up here - theblueandwhitefanzine.bigcartel.com/product/issue-38
"The very first line of Open Socrates admonishes the reader, โThere is a question you are avoiding.โ For Callard, that question is: Why are you living this way? But this only points to a host of questions that Callard herself avoids..."
me for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
We are recruiting! 3 Bridging Fellowships of 12 months for recent PhD graduates to develop research, ideas and connections in the @durhamimh.bsky.social Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities. Applications close 25 April durham.taleo.net/careersectio... Please share widely!
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