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In 2019, I launched the Healthy Scepticism project w/ support from @wellcometrust.bsky.social and including fave colleagues @agnesjuliet.bsky.social and @amazzonefuriosa.bsky.social. Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social, it's a book! Preorder (w/ discount) here. waterstones.com/book/healthy...

The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at @kingshistory.bsky.social is inviting applications for prospective students to pursue a PhD in the History of Science and Technology. For more information, click here: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py

An author photo of Caitjan Gainty alongside a mock-up of her book ‘Healthy Scepticism: Tales of Doubt, Dissent and Distrust in Medicine’ The book cover is a turquoise colour with a red stethoscope in the middle. The title and subtitle are in white letters and the author’s name is in black letters. The background behind the book image is a burnt orange colour.

OUT IN JUNE 2026 🗓️

‘Healthy Scepticism’ by @caitjan.bsky.social is the entertaining, enlightening and occasionally enraging account of controversy, complexity and conspiracy in the medical world, diagnosing both healthy and unhealthy doubt.

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Cover of The Product of Medicine: How Efficiency Made American Health Care by Caitjan Gainty. The covers features images of surgery teams from a past era, as indicated by their historical attire. The images include photographs as well as well as semi-transparent photographic negatives. Various colored filters and fragments from the photographic development are superimposed on the images of the surgery teams.

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Product of Medicine" by Caitjan Gainty @caitjan.bsky.social , which answers the question: What does the surgeon’s table owe to the factory floor? #USHistory #Medicine
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Cover of The Product of Medicine: How Efficiency Made American Health Care by Caitjan Gainty. The covers features images of surgery teams from a past era, as indicated by their historical attire. The images include photographs as well as well as semi-transparent photographic negatives. Various colored filters and fragments from the photographic development are superimposed on the images of the surgery teams.

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The book features some classic American efficiency figures: the Gilbreths, Taylor, Brandeis, Ford (who in a fit of efficiency turned one of his hottest factory workspaces into a 'sanatorium' for workers with TB) plus a colourful cast of medical folks: EA Codman, MM Davis and the Bros Mayo and more.

@dukepress.bsky.social has made available the introduction to my book on the early 20th century efficiency movement and its inroads into medicine! assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

Cover of The Product of Medicine: How Efficiency Made American Health Care by Caitjan Gainty. The covers features images of surgery teams from a past era, as indicated by their historical attire. The images include photographs as well as well as semi-transparent photographic negatives. Various colored filters and fragments from the photographic development are superimposed on the images of the surgery teams.

In "The Product of Medicine," @caitjan.bsky.social retells the story of US medical history through the lens of industrialization and the industrial logics that made American medicine modern. Read the intro for free on our website now. #USHistory #TechnologyStudies
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Applications open for Hans Rausing Scholarships in History of Science and Technology The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM) is now accepting applications for the scholarships, supporting postgraduate study in the history of science and technology.

💻 The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine is now accepting applications for the Hans Rausing Scholarships, supporting postgraduate study in the history of science and technology.

🗓️ Deadlines: 14 and 15 April 2025

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Duke's book designers added this colour and shifted the images sideways. Gilbreth would have felt so seen. Thank you @dukepress.bsky.social for making this so lovely. I hope that you - potential readers - find that the text measures up. Here's a 30% off code if you want to see if it does: E25CGNTY.

The images are from Frank Gilbreth's studies of surgery, in which he swathed everybody in white and numbered and lettered surgical workers, grid-lined walls and then filmed and photographed their motions. Very on brand for Gilbreth, the results were visually captivating, if not terrifically useful.

After about a million years, my book will be out this April. www.dukeupress.edu/the-product-.... As an avid introvert and committed pessimist, I really wouldn't know how to talk it up. But I do like the cover very much. Look at it.

Join us on 22 October for the Kass Lecture in the History of Medicine at King's College, London! Our speaker this year is the wonderful Beth Linker who will be talking about the 'Other Disabled President.' Tickets available at www.tickettailor.com/events/chost...

Biden’s Plan to ‘End Cancer’ Borrows From an Old, Flawed Playbook Opinion | The President’s new health research enterprise is eerily reminiscent of Richard Nixon’s ill-fated war on cancer.

Biden has announced more funding for his "cancer moonshot" initiative. This is what @caitjan.bsky.social and I wrote about it two years ago and we haven't changed our minds
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Health in Brixton | Vox Pops

With many thanks to our Centric Community Research and our collaborators in Brixton, some of whom you can find out more here, in a film made by Lucas Canino for our 'healthy scepticism' mini-exhibition at the Science Gallery London last year. youtu.be/msJTnIfbtjU

Healthy scepticism Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

I wrote with Agnes Arnold-Forster and Paul Addae on 'healthy scepticism' for Wellcome Stories. wellcomecollection.org/articles/ZWc....

The US once withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men in the name of science. Newly pub... The archival trove chronicles the extreme measures administrators took to ensure Black sharecroppers did not receive treatment for the venereal disease.

If you have never heard of the Tuskegee syphilis study then this will shock you to the core- If you are aware already then the level of coverup and manipulation will sicken you. It’s legacy still reverberates today.