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In two days!
First page of new book. Sick jokes Visual histories of humour, health and the body Edited by Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
First page of table of contents. Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Christine Slobogin, Katie Snow and Laura Cowley Part I – Pathologies and power in print 1 ‘Uncorking Old Sherry’: Alcohol, the body and political decline in visual culture and the case of Richard Brinsley Sheridan – Callum D. Smith 35 2 Bedroom eyes as bedside manner: Humorous expressions of medical impropriety in mid-nineteenth-century visual culture – Rebecca Whiteley 63 3 ‘The top set’s artificial, but the bottom’s my own!’: Comic representations of false teeth and denture users in mid-twentieth-century British seaside postcards – Georgia Haire 95 Part II – Dying laughing: Death, disfigurement, disease, and disability 4 Dancing, laughing and sexing (with) death: Edvard Munch’s gendered medical humour – Allison Morehead 119
Second page of table of contents. 5 Tube pedicles and positionality: The visual humour of a plastic surgery technique – Christine Slobogin 146 6 The bittersweet look(s) of AIDS: Consuming the ironic waste of HIV/AIDS imagery (and other butts of the joke) in Diseased Pariah News – Jo Michael Rezes 173 7 Irony, assisted dying and the Disabled Avant- Garde – Laura Cowley 202 Part III – Comical health communications 8 ‘Doctor, Are You Speaking in Tongues?’: Humour and the health humanities of Selma and Lois DeBakey – Jeffrey S. Reznick 235 9 Tough Shit Thomas and Peanut Pete: Harm reduction comics and British identities in the 1990s – Peder Clark 262 10 Pandemic funnies: Humour in COVID-19 comics – Soha Bayoumi 291 Index 322
PROOFS!
@katiesnow.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
Forthcoming publication in SSHM's Social Histories of Medicine series published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
Out September 2026!
#histmed
Well this sounds *so* cool and so fascinating - added to the reading pile!!
Our edited volume _Sick Jokes_ is officially on the
@manchesterup.bsky.social website!!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187970/
What does "visual culture in Britain" look like today?
If you can answer that question, you might be eligible for a fabulous cash prize, courtesy of @vcib.bsky.social!
Click below for further details. Submissions are due April 27, 2026!
#humanities #skystorians #VisualCulture 🗃️📜📚
The second half of our special issue "The Intersection of Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry" in the Journal of the American College of Dentists is now out!
This was put together by our team at NCHED (National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics and Dentistry).
commons.ada.org/jacd/vol92/i...
This is really fabulous, and I'm not just saying that because I presented at the conference mentioned in this article. Really special things happening in the study of injury prevention, and I'm so excited for what this means for the future.
Yes!! Thanks so much Joe.
@safetyworkhstm.bsky.social
A skull has a black and white bar over its eyes at a slant. Black background, white text: CHRISTINE SLOBOGIN PHOTOGRAPHY, PATHOLOGIES, AND PRIVACY: VISUAL ANONYMITY IN MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS APRIL 9, 2026 - 5:00 PM - HUMANITIES CENTER - CONFERENCE ROOM D
As part of the Privacy series, I'm giving this talk on April 9 at the Humanities Center on the new(ish) book project!
George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine “Case Notes: Art History’s Medical Imaginaries” Wednesday, April 15, 2026 5:30 p.m. Lecture 6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering Rochester Academy of Medicine 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY Co-Sponsored by the URochester Department of Art and Art History How have art and medicine converged historically, and how do they do so today? This talk centers the work of Black diaspora artists, tracking art history's medical imaginaries and the stories they help us narrate about how health, wellbeing and care connect us. Anna Arabindan-Kesson is an Associate Professor of African American and Black Diasporic art with a joint appointment in the Department of Art and Archaeology. Born in Sri Lanka, she completed undergraduate degrees in New Zealand and Australia, and worked as a Registered Nurse in the UK before completing her PhD in African American Studies and Art History at Yale University. She is the director of Art Hx, a digital humanities project and object database that addresses the intersections of art, race, and medicine in the British Empire. Her first book is available from Duke University Press, and it is titled Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World.
With @ayahnerd.bsky.social's riveting Corner Society talk (barely) in the rearview mirror, we're now looking forward to Anna Arabindan-Kesson's visit to Rochester.
She'll be speaking about Black diaspora artists, tracking art history's medical imaginaries and the stories they tell.
Genuinely fascinating work!
Thank you Harriet!!
Want to hear me talk/rant about eugenics? Come through!
George Washington Corner Society for the History of Medicine “Black Eugenics and the Struggle for Equality” Wednesday, March 25, 2026 5:30 p.m. Lecture 6:30 - 7:15 p.m. Social Gathering Rochester Academy of Medicine 1441 East Avenue, Rochester, NY Co-Sponsored by the University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Institute & Department of Black Studies This talk will discuss the ways that African Americans understood and mobilized eugenics and racial science to challenge scientific racism in the twentieth century. African American physicians, scientists, scholars, and reformers believed that eugenics, along with other political and social activism, offered a solution to racial discrimination by improving the biological composition of the race. Though eugenic measures were ultimately weaponized against African Americans, there were some who believed that forms of eugenics could be mobilized to improve the health and welfare of the race. This talk will examine the ways by which African Americans respond to, reinterpret, and critique the scientific racism embedded within the eugenics movement as part of a larger discourse of black eugenics. Ayah Nuriddin is an Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine at Yale University. She is a historian of medicine and biology with particular interests in the histories of eugenics, racial science, scientific racism, reproduction, and human subjects research. Prior to arriving at Yale, she was a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and African American Studies at Princeton University. She received her PhD in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in 2021. She is currently working on her first book, tentatively entitled Seed and Soil: Black Eugenic Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Tonight! Join us at the Rochester Academy of Medicine or online!
@ayahnerd.bsky.social
Thanks Graham!
Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday:
“I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”
Then there's Christy's, @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social and Iro Filippaki's agenda-setting article on injury studies! A truly interdisciplinary emergent field (and a powerful network, check them out!) that has the potential to disrupt some of the most established concepts in #medhums and #histmed
Ah thanks so much Bea!
So excited to see this online!
We hope folks find the essay useful and encourage anyone working on injuries to check out the Injury Studies Network website and / or to contact me to join the mailing list!
injurystudies.org
Co-authors are the fabulously intelligent @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social and Iro Filippaki!
Our ✨open access✨ research agenda essay for injury studies is now out!
We argue that injuries are pivotal events deserving sustained attention within the critical medical humanities. And we have provided a ✨large✨ bibliography to give folks a place to start.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Listen to our Midsommar ep! It's "very funny"! 🥰
Omg thank you!
I created a LEGO.com account for this I didn't know I wanted a Lego printing press so, so badly.
