@jonathandriddle
Historian of medicine and religion | Health humanities coordinator | Notre Dame PhD | Same handle everywhere Book mss: The Gospel of Health: How Science, Religion, and Capitalism Shaped Wellness in America
Natalia is as smart, compelling, and kind in person as she seems in her public work.
I highly recommended reading *Fit Nation* and inviting her to your campus!
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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
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Can't wait to talk FIT NATION at Pepperdine! Join us IRL in Malibu on Tuesday for my public talk!
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.
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 🗃️
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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 🗃️
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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
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This is more than I expected!
Now we need a post about how subfields use the same design language and fonts (especially Civil War studies). I'm assuming that's intentional by presses?
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.
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Something akin to the way Emily K. Abel's article on the Gillespies reveals so much about women and caregiving in the home in the nineteenth-century US. It's great and teachable.
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.🗃️
"So once you’re equipped with information, your next stop is the app store on your phone. There’s an app for every landmark on your journey. Just accept the terms, download, and follow the prompts. And stay alert to the health news filling your inbox. It is on you to journey safely, and older advice can lead you straight off a cliff."
On the fiction that we're in total control of our health.
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
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I'm so sorry to hear this. How terribly cruel.
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! 🗃️
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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. 🗃️
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Big news for #skystorians 🗃️: Zotero now supports CMOS 18.
@catherinemcneur.bsky.social talks about the pigs that roamed the streets of nineteenth-century NYC in *Taming Manhattan.* www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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...
Based on how useful *The Book Proposal Book* was for me, I'm very much looking forward to this one!
Even better, it's part of a cluster hire.
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 🗃️
Understood! Thanks again for the recommendation.
I just ordered it! I've previously assigned Washington's *Medical Apartheid* for this perspective. How do you think they compare?
I'm currently spamming my ILL librarian. Thank you!
Will investigate! Thank you.
Previously, I've used an excerpt from Robert A. Hahn, *Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective.* It helps show the importance of forces beyond the body itself, including the social and psychosomatic. But it didn't quite do the trick. Too anthropological, I guess!
Yeah, sorry about: I'm teaching the history of health and medicine in the US, so examples from that context would work best.
Right! I mean, this is one of the main goals of the course (history of health and medicine in the US). So I hope they get it in the end. But I'm just hoping to start with something quick and evocative, like "consumption was chic but people shamed AIDS patients: why?"
I'm teaching the history of health and medicine in the US (or the lands that became the US), so something North American suits me best. But I think I'd use something further afield if it did the trick.