For those reading Italian, there is a new open access special issue on migratory stratification looking at the composition of populations with migrant background, urban transformations, and differentiated legal statuses journals.openedition.org/qds/7288
"I like thinking before I speak.... I like listening, absorbing, considering. English is not my first language. I need to think a bit longer, not because I lack confidence, but because I want my words to mean something. Yet in academia, silence is often mistaken for weakness"
« Le Deuxième Sexe » entre dans la Pléiade à l’occasion du 40ᵉ anniversaire de la mort de Simone de Beauvoir
"A carefully crafted assemblage ethnography that should be
essential reading not only for medical anthropologists and STS
scholars but also oncologists, cancer care nurses, surgeons and
health policy officials"
I am very grateful for Ayo Wahlberg's thoughtful and generous review of my book.
That beautiful landscape is in so many family pictures... It's like seeing the memories of your childhood reduced to dust. But I am sure that the Adriatic will reshape its beauty.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Interesting article on Somatosphere about two open-access French journals: Revue Anthropologie des Connaissances (RAC) and Anthropologie & Santé (A&S)!
somatosphere.net/in-the-journ...
Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
Autism can be seen as a compelling example for examining how scientific objectivity is constructed, especially in a context where nearly all gender stereotypes—such as bad mothers, empathic women versus logical men, and hormonal differences—have been used to explain its supposed gender differences.
Still seeking participants for my PhD research on neuroqueer youth digital resistance practices! (ERGO: 103967)
Know someone who’d be interested?
All info is at linktr.ee/nqresearch.s..., or email me with any questions at ✉️nqresearch@soton.ac.uk
Do rich people just send emails all day every day?? If I were obscenely wealthy I would never open another email in my life
They show an awful side of power, but I would hardly call that "a sudden light". I think they are yet another confirmation of what every woman knows, and many of us have experienced firsthand.
El científico español Mariano Barbacid ha encontrado la cura del cáncer de páncreas.
"Si no se investiga no se avanza".
El Premio Nóbel ya tiene dueño.
"Psychopolitics tends to reduce large social phenomena to simple personal causalities. It is reductionist, although in a tortuously indirect manner".
Against Psychopolitics, Michael Parenti (1933-2026).
Written in 1993, it says a lot about our times.
read.dukeupress.edu/nps/article-...
"This bargain no longer works" Since apparently we are in an era of political "candour", it might be worth repeating that the bargain worked for a handful of countries and that it was based on a savage (post)colonial exploitation of the majority of the world. This time, someone might actually listen
Division of Medical Education Events and Initiatives to Discuss Autism and ADHD Diagnoses in Context (for Staff and Students) Colleagues in the Division of Medical Education have been involved in a series of events exploring the history of autism and ADHD diagnoses, and related topics concerning the study of neurodevelopment, developmental psychology, and neurodiversity. In June 2025, CHSTM, together with the network Autism@Manchester, hosted the interdisciplinary workshop “Rethinking Neurodevelopment: From WHO Policies to Neurodiversity and Care”, with three speakers, Dr Anna Stenning (University of Southampton), Dr Bonnie Evans and Dr Cinzia Greco (both SMS). The workshop was an opportunity to rethink neurodevelopmental conditions, their historical and contemporary transformations, and to explore the future direction of research in the field. Growing interest in, and diagnosis of, conditions such as autism and ADHD has generated new and sometimes controversial debates. The workshop was an occasion to discuss the history of autism, and the role of international agencies, such as the WHO, in defining this diagnosis, and how other personal identities, such as gender, can influence the experience of autistic people. Dr Erin Beeston (a CHSTM alumna now working with Autism@Manchester) requested support from Dr Greco and Dr Evans to organise an “Autism student journal club”, an ongoing initiative for neurodivergent students to discuss research on the topic and connect with other students with similar experiences. On 16th October, Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green spoke at a new CHSTM seminar series on Mind, History and Society, bringing together historians and doctors to support understanding healthcare practices. Dr Evans discussed how the history of child development studies within social and political context can help to explain changes in the meaning of the autism diagnosis over time, and why these historical changes are vital to interpreting epidemi…
CHSTM and the Division of Medical Education at UoM are organising/have organised a few interesting events on neurodiversity. Have a look here:
blogs.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...
This year, I published my first monograph—a comprehensive exploration of breast cancer in Europe, based on 10 years of ethnographic research. I would love to discuss my research further in seminars and classrooms, and if you want to review it, I still have physical copies I can send!
Congratulations to Eleanor Shaw, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on the history of the British Journal of Anaesthesia today. In the photo: Prof Carsten Timmermann (2nd supervisor), the candidate, Prof Roberta Bivins, and Dr Neil Pemberton (the external and internal examiners).
Oh, thank you! I didn't know her and will look it up!
And of course, to trace the contemporary origin of the much-abused "PTSD" label, it is essential to mention: "The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder" by Allan Young.
"Trauma has become the privileged idiom through which individual and collective suffering is expressed"
Fassin and Rechtman
An insightful article on the misuses of the category of trauma that, for once, acknowledges anthropological and social sciences research on the topic.
If you use "societal" as a neutral synonym of "social", you might also be interested in reading my comment on why the two terms do not refer to the same reality and why, in this case, it might be better to avoid the variatio and stick with "social" (repetita iuvant after all).
The latest issue of Anthropologie & Santé has been published. As always, it is available in #openaccess, so feel free to browse the articles covering topics from newborns in Mayotte to mental health in adolescence, bariatric surgery, and more.
journals.openedition.org/anthropologi...
I agree, and I am honestly surprised that there is so little debate around brexit and its effects.
"Negotiators are aiming to finalise a deal by January that would allow the UK to participate in Erasmus from 2027 onwards, according to two UK and EU officials."
If you are a PhD student working in the history of health, medicine or adjacent topics and disciplines, and you would like to present your research in an engaging and friendly environment, the online CHSTM postgrad seminar series is the right place!
I don't have a synthesis to offer, just the consideration that technology is not inherently disabled-friendly. Like architecture, technology has to be "made" accessible - or a tool for access - and most of the time this is not the case.
Also, isn't this standard narrative for mid 19C MCR, otherwise the 19th depopulation of the central districts by the emerging middle classes to the suburbs would make no sense...
