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Sarah Chaney

@kentishscribbler.bsky.social

Historian of medicine and stuff. Writer. Curator. Socialist. Obsessive. Author of “Psyche on the Skin: A history of self-harm” (2016) and “Am I Normal? The 200-year search for normal people and why they don’t exist” (2022)

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Sarah Chaney@kentishscribbler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Breaking my unintentional vow of silence on here to share this news. Getting back into the swing of campaigning!

Chingford & Woodford Green Community Independents@cwgcommunity.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 If you live in the Valley or Larkswood wards of Waltham Forest, or the Churchfields ward in Redbridge, you’ll be able to vote for candidates from CWG Community Independents in the upcoming election for borough councillors: www.cwgcommunity.org.uk/news 📰

Rebecca Wynter@rebeccawynter.bsky.social · last yr.

📢New article from me, Niyah Campbell, @kentishscribbler.bsky.social & @sarahvmarks.bsky.social📢 'The persistence of history: Racism, anti-Blackness, and the causes of mental ill health, c.1800–2020' is OA with History of the Human Sciences doi.org/10.1177/0952... #HistPsych #HistSTM #BlackHistory

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Geth Rees@gethrees.bsky.social · last yr.

Quick plug for an event I'm speaking at tomorrow on forensic nursing. I'm specifically talking about past work on the introduction of FNEs into sexual offence interventions, but I'm sure I'll also comment on police custody. @kentishscribbler.bsky.social www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Care in Custody: From police matrons to forensics | Royal College of Nursing

An online talk on the history of women in the police service and the role of nursing in forensics.

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Sarah Chaney@kentishscribbler.bsky.social · last yr.

Unequal: the history of health and society - Exhibition launched! The exhibition is free and open to all at the Royal College of GPs, 30 Euston Square (next to Euston Station). You can also see a (slightly different) version of the exhibition online here: www.rcgp.org.uk/about/museum...

Exhibition: Unequal – Health and Society

Not everyone receives the care they need, even under a universal healthcare system. This exhibition explores the history of health inequalities in the UK.

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@fairhomeswf.bsky.social · last yr.

In 2002, buying in Waltham Forest cost 6x the average salary - by 2018, it jumped to 14x. House prices have now hit £525K, while the council pledged 35% of new homes would be affordable. So why are so many still out of reach?

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Frances Ryan@francesryan.bsky.social · last yr.

This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.

Sarah Chaney@kentishscribbler.bsky.social · last yr.

From M’Gonigle and Kirby,‘Poverty and Public Health’, 1936. This features in the exhibition I’m curating on health inequalities. Hospital admissions for malnutrition were on the rise even before today’s welfare cuts.

Children may, and in fact not infrequently do, grow up healthily in spite of a bad material environment. They may avoid clinical illnesses due to infections, though exposed to the infections; they may survive, undamaged, illnesses resulting from the invasion of their tissues by pathogenic microorganisms, but they cannot survive unscathed prolonged deprivations or deficiencies of certain essentials for normal nutrition.
IndiaWilloughby@indiawilloughby.bsky.social · last yr.

1/There’s been a blitzkrieg of stories like this over the past week about trans people. 0.5% of the population. All appearing across the biggest media platforms in the UK. From the BBC to national press. Rolled out by Tufton Street think tanks, based on ‘studies’ written by anti-trans campaigners.

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