Delighted that my article on cannabis psychosis is out in @sshmedicine.bsky.social. I've been workshopping the article for (literally) years, so its great to finally see it in the light of day. Link to the article (which is OA) is below: academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...

A Drug Issue, Not A Black Issue?: Cannabis Psychosis and Black People’s Drug Use in Britain, 1982–1992

Abstract. During the mid-1980s, British psychiatry erupted into a vehement debate about the disproportionate use of ‘cannabis psychosis’ as a clinical diag

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Thoroughly enjoyed the Christoph Schlingensief exhibition at Martin Gropius Bau, but there is so much more not on show; you can watch U3000 on Youtube, it is just nuts and brilliant, and Das deutsche Kettensägemassaker (1990) is still my favourite.

Had a lot of fun at ESHS/HSS in Edinburgh last week, especially presenting on the history of schizophrenia panel with @slagstadk.bsky.social and @anaantic.bsky.social, sharing my ideas on the schizophrenic brain and CT as a moral machine. #ESHS-HSS

I met Eric at the Globalizing Schizophrenia conference I hosted in Berlin a while back - youtu.be/bOqIf0x6Rss?... - he's a lovely man and a fascinating speaker, look forward to listening to his podcast with Mad in America

Globalizing Schizophrenia: The History and Legacy of the WHO Studies of Schizophrenia

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

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Mad in America@mad-in-america.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On our #podcast, Cultural psychiatrist G. Eric Jarvis explores how faith, culture, and power shape mental health practice. We discuss Jarvis’s work on the social determinants of #psychosis, and how coercive treatment can deepen mistrust in psychiatric care. #psychiatry #psychology buff.ly/K8VIIMH

Interested in interviews & oral history in #HistSTM #HistMed #HPS? Then this special issue is for you! Research Interviews in the History of Science & Medicine–Reflections and New Directions, eds. @hworliczek.bsky.social & @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15222365... 1/7

Editor-in-Chief Eric Engstrom has recently announced a relaunch of the History of Psychiatry journal with a new title, scope, and look. Exciting news for anyone working in #histpsy #histmed #histsci #history Check out what's changed: journals.sagepub.com/home/hpy

I used archival case files to reconstruct histories of psychotic veterans denied disability pensions in post-WWII Britain; I argue that the idea of stress-induced schizophrenia, popularized later by anti-psychiatry, emerged in tribunals as part of a liberal critique of technocracy. #histmed #histsci

Proud to have been part of a panel on decolonizing medical aid with Diana Nazzal, Anika König and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn. The event was a fundraiser to help Gazan medical students forced to study in Egypt pay their tuition fees, who in time will return and help rebuild its healthcare system #Gaza.

Pleasure to hear @davidolusoga.bsky.social and Santanu Das at opening of the new Triailleurs exhibition at the #HKW, really powerful takes on erased histories of colonial soldiers, legacies lost between eurocentric nationalism and post-colonial nation-building.

Academic events in Berlin (2/2): Book launch of „Biomedical Visions“ at ICI Berlin, organized by @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and many others, with my Bielefeld colleague Lara Keuck amongst others!

BlueSky ist doch ok? Stabi statt Snapchat? #BlueSky #Facebook #Stabi

Looking for interesting reading on psychoanalysis and football (asking for a friend who's a Spurs fan). Just stumbled across Chris Oakley's Football Delirium (www.routledge.com/Football-Del...), but hungry for more. #psychoanalysis #football #spurs

Football Delirium

This book is a set of wonderfully subtle and free-wheeling interwoven stories about psychoanalysis and football, and what they might have to say to each other, arguing that football offers us the poss...

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Biomedical Visions spotted in the wild (The Wellcome) by @frankiedytor.bsky.social! No time for irl books? Too busy on BlueSky for excursions to Euston Road? Treat yourself to the totally free open access version here: www.hatjecantz.de/products/830... #histmed #histsci

We are solidly back to the days of "WE are the civilized, makers and beneficiaries of the rules, and THEY are the uncivilized, entitled to no protections" That mindset never really went away, some of just pretended it did. No denying it anymore

Interested in multispecies health? Why not come work with my excellent colleague Hannah Brown at Durham? durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

"Biomedical technologies increasingly mediate and shape our subjective experience of illness, but biomedical knowledge cannot satisfy our subjective desires for total control of our bodies and their environments" Book Launch 12.03. Live stream available www.ici-berlin.org/events/biome...

Biomedical Visions - ICI Berlin

Biomedical visualisations can validate patient experiences and perceptions empowering patients and convincing doctors in the search for a diagnosis, treatment, or cure. However, they are often decepti...

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Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event! @durhamimh.bsky.social #histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts

Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well

This 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data.

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Bielefelder Schneemann

Buoy is cold. Plötzensee, Berlin.

📗 New #OpenAccess volume edited by Elizabeth Hughes & Alfred Freeborn: "Biomedical Visions" brings together epistemology, medicine, and art to understand what biomedicine looks like and how we might view it differently in the past and future. 🔗 bit.ly/4nHBZ #HistSci #HistArt

Biomedical Visions is now available open access, have a look: www.hatjecantz.com/collections/...

Biomedical Visions

Wir leben heute in einem Zeitalter der biomedizinischen Visionen. Die Entzauberung des Körpers durch Visualisierungstechnologien scheint kein Ende zu nehmen, und das Versprechen von Gesundheit ist unw...

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@alfredfreeborn.bsky.social kicks off the discussion by reflecting on a conference he organized last year www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/global... #autoreflexivity #eahmh #who #schizophrenia

#HPS #HistMed

Rebecca Jackson, PhD@beccajackson.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you love socio-material approaches to reproductive history? Come check out the special issue of Bulletin of the History of Medicine I’m in. My paper is on the history of centimeters as a unit for measuring cervical dilation.

It was super interesting to hear from Nic Cottone, @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and Lisa Schmidt-Herzog about their ideas of alienation, masking, and the need for an open epistemology to avoid essentialism in the neurodiversity movement!

Our Spring Publications Slam in pictures 🌷📚 Congrats on your new books and articles Thomas Turnbull, Razieh-Sadat Mousavi, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Alfred Freeborn, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Cameron Brinitzer and Dora Vargha! Learn more 👉 bitly.cx/n7aF #HistSci #EnvHist

I’m hiring a postdoctoral fellow for 3 years to work on the philosophy of physics at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), LMU Munich (deadline: February 23, 2025). More information below. @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social

Call for applications! Dept. II ("Knowledge Systems and Collective Life") seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Scholar proficient in #OralHistory and #DigitalHumanities to join the CORAL (Commoning Oral Histories of Knowledge) project 💬 🗓 Deadline: April 30, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4 #HistSci #AcademicSky

Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25

How? Riah just joined the platform, turns out she's already famous. For any Berlin people, I would recommend her new show at the Gorki, it's a lot of really camp fun and, unlike the critics, I loved the didactic anti-racism.

Dr Lucie Fremlova 🍉🌻🦋@inclusivelucie.bsky.social · 2y ago

“We don’t have to live by this normative structure”: How Riah Knight is deconstructing Carmen Romani actress Riah Knight reinterprets Georges Bizet's 'Carmen', challenging the opera's harmful stereotypes and reclaiming the narrative.

It's been a while since I did a social media post, got that mildly excited feeling and skin tingles. Happy to share my first (single-authored) publication with the BlueSky world! It won a prize so definitely skim-read the abstract at least: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia: Crisis, consensus, and computers in post-war psychiatry - Alfred Freeborn, 2025

This article offers a new reading of the US–UK Diagnostic Project (1965–75), a series of influential collaborative studies that tested the ability of psychiatri...

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