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Delighted that our special number of @HistHum on the history of the medical humanities in France and the English-speaking world is now available with many of the papers being open access, thanks to Jisc. It's been a long but very exciting haul. journals.sagepub.com/toc/HHS/curr...
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I was attacked in Thetford riots for trying to do my job By Henry Durand www.edp24.co.uk/news/2644352...
I've been attacked as a journalist twice in a year... I'm just trying to do my job
I was attacked for a second time in a year while covering the Thetford riots, here's what happened and why I'm going back.
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Admittedly a US thing, but I think folks should reflect that Kimi, the open-weight AI model by $20b-valued Moonshot AI everyone is freaking out about, was developed by someone who went to CMU and then didn't stay in the US mostly because visas would prevent him setting up a US business
If true, we get 3 things. None good. 1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration. 2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy. 3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Times reporting that Andy Burnham succeeded in persuading Shabana Mahmood to become Chancellor because it would give her more control over cutting immigration
A remarkable speech from Naz Shah opening the King's Speech debate: "Someone like me who spent her formative years fighting a campaign to release her mother from prison, who did not have a formal education beyond 12... forced into a marriage at 15... attempting suicide... Yet, here I stand."
Let he who has not released a song called Heil Hitler within the past year cast the first stone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
GB News: its *important* to AIR the view that migration is genocide + to AIR the view that increasing diversity inevitably means violence+death. ("I would love to know where you are planning to go when THEY really turn on US. Because it has happened before + *WILL* HAPPEN AGAIN") Ofcom: Don't Know.
Delighted that my paper with Céline Lefève and Patrick ffrench comparing the history of the medical humanities in the USA and France is now out and free to download here: doi.org/10.1177/0952... @frenchstudies.bsky.social @frculturalst.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social @bmj.com
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Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12mo agoTommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.
I’m talking about Don Trump, the New York cartoonist.
I'm so grateful to Coline Garré of Le Quotidien du Médecin for this fab account (in French) of a seminar I was honoured to give at Institut la Personne en Médecine on how the isolation of the ill helps articulate the links between the medical humanities, psychology and epidemiology. bit.ly/3TipqtQ
Ce que la maladie nous dit de notre rapport à l'autre
« À la suite d’un AVC, un de mes amis, journaliste, n’a plus pu parler ni écrire un anglais clair. Il a tout perdu : son emploi, son mariage, son logement. Tous ses amis l’ont abandonné. Paradoxalemen...
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Baroness Kidron in the House of Lords today: "It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
Looking forward to the #NNMHR conference on ‘Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers’ beginning tomorrow. It’s a daunting honour to have been asked to give one of the keynotes. nnmh.org.uk/tongues/
Delighted that my article on "The Narrative-Based Medical Humanities 1980-1995" is available to download free of charge from the journal, History of the Human Sciences. It's available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Delighted that my article on "The Narrative-Based Medical Humanities 1980-1995" is available to download free of charge from the journal, History of the Human Sciences. It's available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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📗📚📖 Pleased to have signed, with Co-Editor Larry Duffy, the contract for our book ‘French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersections’, to appear in Liverpool UP’s Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series next year.
I'm so delighted and thrilled by Jürgen Pieters' profound and perceptive review of my book (with Derek Bolton) Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment (Reaktion, 2024) in The Polyphony. You can read it here: thepolyphony.org/2025/03/17/o...
Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment Book Review
Jürgen Pieters reviews Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment by Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton (Reaktion, 2024).
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it remains quite mad to me that this post was made over a decade ago - I remember seeing it at the time! - and it just got....pretty much everything about the online hellscape of 2020's right
2025: Brexit party MEP in court for taking bribes from Russia 2019: Brexit party MEP Claire Fox dismisses criticisms of 'foreign agents of Putin' Your reminder that Fox who campaigned to leave the EU because of unelected bureaucrats is now sat in the House of Lords as an unelected legislator 🤷♂️
Excellent post with hard numbers about migration. Share if you care about equipping people with a swift robust response to this nonsense.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2y agoI've now complained to @ipso.co.uk & expect in due course Telegraph will be forced to correct this BS. They couldn’t even get London’s overall population right, let alone migration stats. But what are the "right" numbers? [1/n]
Delighted by this perceptive and very generous review of my book (with Derek Bolton), "Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment" in today's edition of @TheLancet. Read it here: bit.ly/4gKmDUg
The abandonment of the sick
The illness memoir is now a well-established literary genre. This phenomenon gives the subliminal impression that as a society, we are anxious to do away with taboos around sickness, and to support the sick. The truth, to our discredit, is that many people are keener on reading books about the illness of strangers than helping friends with major illness. The stigma of psychiatric illness is well-recognised, but that associated with physical illness much less so. In high-income countries, sick people and their families are in many respects socially isolated; even worse, society does not generally recognise this issue.
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"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."
