John Nott
@jdnott.bsky.social
Economic & medical historian on https://www.epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/ at the University of Edinburgh. Author of: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/between-feast-and-famine/ Editor of: https://intellectbooks.com/making-sense-of-medicine
Over the next three weeks, we feature the 8 monographs and 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes. Today: 'Between Feast and Famine: Food, Health, and the History of Ghana’s Long Twentieth Century', by John Nott (UCL Press, 2025) bit.ly/4vGaxCU
Very happy to be sharing the programme of the "Endemic Transformations" workshop held on July 9-10 @standrewsanthro.bsky.social - Registration (free & in person only) is open till June 26 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthr...
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.
So pleased to have been shortlisted for this, and to be in such excellent company (fyi you can read BF&F, as everyone is calling it, open access at uclpress.co.uk/book/between...)
Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3mo agoThe Society is pleased to publish the Shortlist of its 2026 First Book Prize for early career historians: bit.ly/4dARJO1 This year's list includes eight monographs published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two prize winners will be announced in July #Skystorians
University management scams Part 1: Recruitment agencies At least these gigantic brains running universities handle their own hiring, right? No. It’s outsourced at scale Manchester University spent nearly £20m on external recruiters in one year
Please read and share and enjoy and discuss and cherish my long-gestating article in @histhum.bsky.social: ‘A treatise on all the bad habits of mankind’: Major Greenwood and the political economy of epidemiology in early 20th-century Britain doi.org/10.1177/0952...
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Following the dissolution of USAID what is emerging to replace it are exploitative one-sided deals proposing the exchange of aid dollars for sensitive health data, lack of reciprocal benefit and agreements that bypass multilateral frameworks. www.globalhealthunfiltered.com/blog/jn2u6d5...
How Zimbabwe Walked Away from a $367 Million U.S. Health Deal — Global Health Unfiltered
On February 25, 2026, the U.S. Embassy in Harare issued a terse, four-sentence statement confirming what Zimbabwean officials had already made clear weeks earlier: the United States would begin windin...
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Plzzz take a look at our new @bmj.com commentary on the Demographic and Health Survey, its history, the sudden end of #USAID financing, and the possible futures of population health surveillance. gh.bmj.com/content/11/2...
Beyond the Demographic and Health Survey: on the past and future of population health surveillance
The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) programme was paused at the start of 2025 following deep cuts to the United States’ Agency for International Development (USAID). Since the middle of the 1980s,...
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CFP: Society for the Study of Measurement will be held at the University of Edinburgh June 22-25, 2026. Submit proposals for papers, symposia, & poster on any topics in the theory, history, philosophy, & application of measurement by January 15, 2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80364... #HPS
I reviewed two fantastic books by @reproutopia.bsky.social , @fullnommunism.bsky.social and Mijke Van Der Drift for @histmat.bsky.social - reflecting on tolerable levels of dissonance in comradely feminisms: www.historicalmaterialism.org/enemies-comr...
Enemies, Comrades, and The Counterrevolutionary Logic of Cisness - Historical Materialism
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, Trans femme futures: Abolitionist ethics for transfeminist worlds. Pluto Press, 2024. Sophie Lewis, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses against Liber...
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ICYMI: John Nott, 'Architecture for Anatomy: History, Affect, and the Material Reproduction of the Body in Two Medical School Buildings'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Architecture for Anatomy: History, Affect, and the Material Reproduction of the Body in Two Medical School Buildings - John Nott, 2023
Medical schools are among the most important spaces for the history of the body. It is here that students come to know the anatomical bodies of their future pat...
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New article in Global Public Health, fresh out of the @epidemy.org: 'Economical epidemiology, pathological populations, and the long history of the Demographic and Health Survey.' Please share! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Economical epidemiology, pathological populations, and the long history of the Demographic and Health Survey
This article examines the history of population health surveillance in modern Africa, considering the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) programme as a bridge between twentieth and twenty-first ce...
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First paper in @epidemy.org's Data & Disease Special Issue in Medical History out now, recommend a read (don't think Cal is here on Bsky but sent my congrats elsewhere) #histmed www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The field-ready tea-box adaptometer: colonial nutrition science and/in imperial economies in Malawi | Medical History | Cambridge Core
The field-ready tea-box adaptometer: colonial nutrition science and/in imperial economies in Malawi
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Congratulations to John Nott! His #OpenAccess book Between Feast and Famine published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/3WBLTEh #Ghana #Africa #Health #Food #ColonialHistory
Between Feast and Famine
Ghana’s twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely uni...
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My book 'Between Feast and Famine: Food, Health and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century' is out today with UCL Press! This also means its fully open access and fully free to read and share and discuss with your friends and family. uclpress.co.uk/book/between...
Between Feast and Famine
Ghana’s twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely uni...
uclpress.co.uk
The National Archives christmas tree I love that the presents are archive boxes (IR 40 series, to be exact) That’s how I think about archive boxes
