I'm thrilled to be returning to Wheaton College this week to share from my current research. If any friends in the area are interested, come out on Wednesday night! 🗃️

I'm thrilled that my new health humanities minor is now live, and even more thrilled that the incomparable @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social helped launch the program by delivering its inaugural lecture! 🗃️ #histmed seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...

Health Humanities Minor Launches at Seaver College with Inaugural Guest Lecture

Seaver College has launched a new heath humanities minor available to undergraduate students beginning this 2025 fall semester. Jonathan Riddle serves as the program's coordinator.

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Can't wait to talk FIT NATION at Pepperdine! Join us IRL in Malibu on Tuesday for my public talk!

Jonathan D. Riddle@jonathandriddle.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm so excited to welcome @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social to campus next week to help launch our new minor! The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.

I'm so excited to welcome @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social to campus next week to help launch our new minor! The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela@nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · last yr.

I am so excited to be heading to 🌴 Malibu 🌴 next week to spend time with students + faculty @ Pepperdine U and to give a public talk about my book, FIT NATION, as part of the launch of the new Health Humanities minor. If you’re in SoCal, I hope you’ll join us! library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...

What was supposed to take one year has now taken five years (and counting) due to various obstacles. But artist Vinnie Bagwell is still proceeding with plans to install her "Victory" statue where James Marion Sims's statue once stood. #histmed 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The ongoing fight to replace racist monuments in the US: ‘requires a lot of perseverance’

Since a reckoning brought awareness to problematic statues across the country, the road to replacing them has been slow and arduous

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Famous trainer Jillian Michaels announces support for MAHA: “[What] we’re not going to get from the government, you can create in your own life by taking agency.” My book on c19 health reform explores how agency became the watchword in US health. #histmed 🗃️ www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-c...

Jillian Michaels Backs RFK Jr.’s Health Movement - NewsBreak

Fitness trainer Jillian Michaels has supported Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement. She

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“The foundation [of the curriculum] is traditional medicine but enhanced with the humanities and the arts to improve the delivery of care—so we improve on how we [act] with patients and how we partner with patients,” says Makhija. #histmed time.com/7303692/alic...

The World's Richest Woman Has Opened a Medical School

The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is trying a new approach to medical education.

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The EEOC is suing the Mayo Clinic for refusing an employee's request for a religious exemption to their vaccine mandate. It gets less fanfare these days, but folks are still processing and fighting over pandemic issues like mandates, religious liberty, etc. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Mayo Clinic refused employee's COVID-19 vaccine exemption request, lawsuit says

A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges the Mayo Clinic violated federal law when it refused a security guard's request to be exempt from getting the COVID-19 vaccine because of his religious beliefs.

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Do any of you brilliant #histmed teachers know of a nice narrative introduction to early nineteenth-century medicine? Something like a case study of a doctor or a patient? I'm looking for something for undergraduates. I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️

On the fiction that we're in total control of our health. Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️ hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...

Just like Christian bodybuilding, Christian diet culture abides. I would just add that its history stretches further back than the 1970s and Oral Roberts. In fact, I'm writing about its manifestation in the 1830s! 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...

Opinion | The Unrepentant Return of Christian Diet Culture

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American Christians have been blending bodybuilding and faith for more than a century. Here's a check-in with how they're faring these days, with insights from @paulputz.bsky.social. 🗃️ www.menshealth.com/fitness/a651...

Faith, Fitness, and the New Gospel of #Gains: Inside the Conflicted World of Christian Bodybuilders

Christian bodybuilders and fitfluencers are ascending to greater heights of visibility—and facing compelling questions about lust, idolatry, and purpose.

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Big news for #skystorians 🗃️: Zotero now supports CMOS 18.

Sebastian Karcher@adam42smith.bsky.social · last yr.

Courtesy of Andrew Dunning, Zotero and other CSL-supporting reference managers now have full support for Chicago Manual 18th edition: www.zotero.org/styles?q=Chi... (there's a dizzying variety bc CMoS gives you a lot of choices www.zotero.org/styles?q=id%... is your most generic option)

A new survey shows that "congregation switching and ideological sorting" have increased among church-goers since the pandemic. Is this just a correlation, or did pandemic-inspired reflection cause people to make a change in their religious lives? baptistnews.com/article/post...

Post-COVID, church-shifting has created more ideological agreement – Baptist News Global

The COVID pandemic facilitated a greater sorting of churchgoers into more ideological groups than before

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Based on how useful *The Book Proposal Book* was for me, I'm very much looking forward to this one!

Laura Portwood-Stacer@lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · last yr.

Want to know how to not just write a scholarly text but make it into a manuscript that publishers actually want? That's what MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is for. Preorder from @princetonupress.bsky.social or any bookseller to get it as soon as it starts shipping press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#histmed 🗃️ job! jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53214

Is anyone working on the history of homeopathy? Or do you know scholars who have written about homeopathy recently? I could use some help... #histmed 🗃️

#histmed #skystorians: Do you have a favorite reading for introducing students to the *historical* nature of health and medicine? i.e. It's not just the march of science, but context matters. I find great snippets here and there, but I'm looking for a standalone reading. Case studies welcome. 🗃️

Can anyone make out the missing word? 🗃️ Doctor reflecting on seeing poor dispensary patients during the day and then going to fancy parties with the wealthy at night. "surroundings of wealth and the luxury have made me [something] for a time and moralize upon the different phases of human life."

Do any #histsci #histmed #skystorians have experience researching at the National Library of Medicine? Do you know if they offer scanning services? 🗃️

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Pratik Chakrabarti@pratik-hstm.bsky.social · last yr.

ThreeTT jobs in history of medicine, science, and environment at Texas State University. One in Public history jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...

ThreeTT jobs in history of medicine, science, and environment at Texas State University. One in Public history jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...

I wonder if this model could be generalized to work on nineteenth-century American handwriting more broadly?

Bobby Lee@bobbylee.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a good use of AI: transcription of 2.3 million pages of manuscripts trained on 30k pages transcribed by hand archives-20973928.hs-sites.com/ai-and-the-r...

PLEASE SHARE: We just posted an ad for TWO research assistant positions on @pewresearch.org's religion team. We expect a lot of applications so it's best to apply this week for full consideration. Come work with our great team! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

As far as I can tell, collaboration has shaped the interaction of medicine and religion as much as secularization. Both strains weave their way through the history. 🗃️ "Georgetown Launches Faith-Health Commission To Strengthen Trust in Health Systems" www.georgetown.edu/news/georget...

New Faith-Health Project Aims To Increase Trust in Health Systems

The Global Health Institute's initiative will explore how collaborations between faith and health leaders can improve global health outcomes.

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What are the chances a #skystorian has already visited the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to scan George Wood's transcribed diary? 🗃️ We really need a way to avoid repeating the same work over and over again. discover.hsp.org/Record/ead-A...

I'm really, really looking forward to reading the latest from @judithweisenfeld.com! It's almost certainly going on my Medicine and Religion syllabus. 🗃️ #histsci religionnews.com/2025/05/12/a...

Author Judith Weisenfeld unpacks historic links between religion, race and psychiatry

(RNS) — Psychiatrists in the late 19th century were ‘lending the authority of medicine to pathologize one of the central sources of community and connection and ability to survive,’ she said.

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Check it out, #skystorians! 🗃️

Thomas Tweed@tomtweed.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m thrilled that my new book from @yalepress.bsky.social was officially published this week. Thanks to all the students, colleagues, archivists, and librarians who helped along the way.

I’m thrilled that my new book from @yalepress.bsky.social was officially published this week. Thanks to all the students, colleagues, archivists, and librarians who helped along the way.

What is the US Institute of Peace? A little history about the independent organization shows why the US should continue to invest in peace. www.ocregister.com/2025/05/08/g...

Global violence will rise without investment in peace

Peacebuilding is not an idealistic pursuit; it is a financially viable, socially effective way to move towards a better future while safeguarding human rights at home and abroad.

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