Here I question the effects of a ‘superbug imaginary’ in engaging the public on AMR and the wisdom of counterposing survivors of AMR versus over-users of antibiotics
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Here I question the effects of a ‘superbug imaginary’ in engaging the public on AMR and the wisdom of counterposing survivors of AMR versus over-users of antibiotics
Thanks to Wellcome, my chapter on UTI, public health and AMR is open access in this volume on epidemiological obfuscation! (eds Jephcott et al) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Happy to have contributed to this volume on epidemiological obfuscation (eds Jephcott et al) with a reflection on "Epidemic Corpses and Photographic Obfuscation" comparing Ebola (2014-16) to French colonial approaches to plague in Madagascar www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Foreign languages help children decode English says @susiedentwords.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/4730...
Call for abstracts for monograph proposal inspired by Morrison’s Beloved, Butler’s Kindred and Gordon’s Ghostly Matters
A great article bringing Audre Lourde’s insights to the U.K. AMR National Action Plan! Part of a growing conversation about the appropriateness of drawing on necessity as the mother of invention as a policy resource
Agata Pacho and I published an article on self care and UTIs/AMR this week! In Sociology of Health and Illness:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social
Ah no way I just submitted revisions on an article on the ethics of patient resilience in UTI- missed this citation by days!! Will read first thing Monday morning
More practice-based messaging ! This time around UTI from @UKHSA and antibiotics not even mentioned- even better in my book
TODAY:
Find out how expanding antibiotic supply to pharmacies without a prescription is impacting #AMU, #AMR, antibiotics and patients in England!
12:45 online here:
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Can’t believe I’ve not read this article before
Timmermans and Haas, 2008
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18564975/
Sociology of Health & Illness is recruiting three new Editorial Board members, with particular interest in quantitative sociology, global contexts and health inequalities. Please do help us get the word out: closes this week (Fri 2nd).
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Enjoyed Lorenzo Servitje’s new piece on bacterial (rather than the more familiar viral) pandemic literature - including a case of UTI
read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesot...
I LOATHE the screening though. And very hard to avoid given they’re dipping for protein anyway
Maybe in a sense just another vote against trimethoprim given the effect was limited. But faced recently with an obstetrician telling me I risked late term miscarriage for not treating asymptomatic bacteriuria (not blaming her given the evidence!), it’s another strike in balance of harms for me
Woohoo registered for BSAmedsoc! 2/3 success rate for being employed by the host institution, my own bed adds a lot to my conference experience
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
Yes exactly! IPC as a field is probably more practice focused to start with. Lots of ~interesting to sociologists~ stuff about sinks and sewers and where nurses keep their water bottles on shift
Tbf ‘wash your hands’ messaging is also this. There is so much more we could do though!
As in, messaging designed to modify the practices of patients/publics rather than trying to modify beliefs as a way to modify practice
Poster with a picture of a glass of water with title ‘it all starts with a glass of water’
Think this is the first and only time I’ve seen a AMR practice-based message in the wild #uti
@jameslindalliance.bsky.social priority setting survey for UTI, looking for responses from patients, clinicians and stakeholders. Pls help share to ensure a representative sample #UTISKY
@jennyrohn.bsky.social @angelahuttner.bsky.social @gpollara.bsky.social
www.surveymonkey.com/r/UTI_PSP
Great time to get involved in some stroke QI work
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hello, I have just done so thank you.
Alanis Morisette’s song ‘Thank U’ a rare reference to how long term antibiotic use can be implicated in depression and pain. Such funny little drugs
As a constituent I would like to hear your reasons for your vote on the amendment on the police and crime bill
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...
My ~new to stroke~ research mind is still blown by the data availability in acute stroke! A very sharp and eye opening contrast from UTI in primary care
