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Claire Turner

@claireturner.bsky.social

Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on cancer and the senses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Durham History@durhamhistory.bsky.social · last mo.

Erin Maglaque's new book *Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body* was The Guardian's long read this month: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju... @erinmaglaque.bsky.social

‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the ages

The long read: The abortion debate – the language of life, choice and rights – severs women, and their pain, from history. I don’t want to forget my abortion and I don’t want to forget theirs

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Grace Murray@mazinggrace.bsky.social · last mo.

An unexpected highlight of my fellowship at the Huntington this summer: getting to see & smell two corpse flowers blooming this morning (one, nicknamed Odorysseus, is making its public debut!). They only flower for 24 hours or so once every 2-3 years, so a double bloom is a real botanical event!

Two corpse flowers blooming at the Huntington in Pasadena, CA
Claire Turner@claireturner.bsky.social · last mo.

Yesterday, I welcomed over 40 academics, practitioners, and artists to Thackray Museum of Medicine for 'Medicine and the Senses: Past, Present, Future'. It proved to be an absolutely fantastic day full of interactive workshops and compelling (and smelly!) discussion.

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 2mo ago

“What apple? In 1588 Violante Scaglione testified: ‘Adam’s apple was Eve’s butt, not the pit of the fruit that got stuck in his throat when he was called by God.’” —@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the real “forbidden fruit”

erin maglaque (@erinmaglaque.bsky.social)

historian at durham / writer and critic, mostly for the lrb and nyrb. i'm writing a history of the female body, out in june! https://linktr.ee/erinmaglaque https://erinmaglaque.com

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Carsten Timmermann@ctimmermann.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Can I use this opportunity to recommend a well-reviewed book on the history of our attempts to understand, explain, treat and prevent lung cancer? academic.oup.com/shm/article-...

Carsten Timmermann, A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease

Despite having been the most common and deadly cancer of the twentieth century (first in the western world and later worldwide), lung cancer never attracte

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Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 3mo ago

Lung cancer deaths trace the rise and fall of smoking— Lung cancer kills more than two million people every year, making it the most fatal cancer globally. While a number of factors increase the risk, the 20th century brought one like no other: smoking.

Small multiple line charts of reported male deaths from trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers per 100,000 men for six countries from 1950 to 2023, where each country shows a rise to a mid-to-late 20th-century peak followed by a decline to 2023, with the United Kingdom and Netherlands peaking highest and Japan and France showing later, lower peaks. Source: WHO Mortality Database (2025). License: CC BY.
Clare Hickman@drhick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've written about multispecies encounters in these kinds of spaces in the early twentieth century here: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3... 2/3

‘Sick Hands, Thin and White, Were Always Slipping Offerings across My Windowsill, Offerings for the Little Birdlings’: Multispecies Encounters within and around Modern Rural British Sanatoria | Modern...

The use of ‘open-air’ as a therapeutic agent in sanatoria, hospitals, and schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries led to the development of specific material features associated w...

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Dr. Penelope K Hardy@pkhardy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I see that the book is currently available 50% off (& free UK shipping) from @yalebooks.bsky.social with code MAY26 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

The Great Plague - Yale University Press London

In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s e...

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DDr. Penelope K Hardy@pkhardy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @claireturner.bsky.social (@durhamimh.bsky.social)’s review of Evelyn Lord’s book _The Great Plague: When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665_, pub 2023 @yalebooks.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...