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Chris Willoughby

@antiquatedmeds.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies @unlv.bsky.social. Author #MastersofHealth: slavery & racial science in #MedEd @uncpress.bsky.social. Editor #Medicine&Healing in the Age of Slavery @lsupress.bsky.social. views mine

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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Want to know about Joseph Leidy and the spread of racial science in the nineteenth century? Check out my open access (thanks UNLV) article "A man of his time: Joseph Leidy, racial science, and American anatomy" out in @asejournal.bsky.social today. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/6YIPJS...
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A man of his time: Joseph Leidy, racial science, and American anatomy
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Las Vegans, lend me your eyes and ears this Sunday at 2 pm. My dept Interdisciplinary, Gender, & Ethnic Studies in collaboration with UNLV School of Nursing, has partnered with Slicktion Culture to present the 1st official screening of the documentary Upside Down: Paul Revere Williams in Las Vegas
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hi, Folks, if you're in Las Vegas this Friday, come check out this excellent early-bird #Juneteenth event! It's great for the family, and I'm glad to have helped make UNLV a part of it with colleagues in IGES and the College of Nursing.
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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
When the @unlv.edu #DouglassDay team wins the winter Olympics 😍! We have more California conventions coming from the Occidental College team!
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Celebrating the First Colored Conventions in the West with our @douglassday.bsky.social cake for @unlv.edu's annal celebration. The time line includes: 1. Pio Pico: Last Governor of California in Mexico 2. Buffalo Soldiers 3. Mary Ellen Pleasant 4. Harlem Renaissance Band
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Went old school today in light of shocking revelations and took aspirin instead.
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Really psyched about this one and the amazing chance to collaborate with Dominic Hall, Evelynn Hammonds, and Scott Podolsky. Check out "John Collins Warren—Journal Founder, Institution Builder, and Racial Theorist" here: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 30/04/2025
"This wildly effective thing that you're doing? I'm gonna need you to stop." - ancient Koan of Dem leadership
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 23/04/2025
NEWS: Pleading poverty, Stellantis executives laid off 900 autoworkers allegedly in response to tariff threats - and then JUST 13 DAYS LATER LATER, the same Stellantis executives announced a $2.2 billion dividend payout to shareholders. www.levernews.com/automakers-t...
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Automaker’s Tariff Plan: Cut Jobs And Pay Off Wall Street
Stellantis laid off a thousand U.S. workers in response to tariffs, then authorized billions in shareholder payouts.
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Congrats!!!
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
It's the last day to vote for my article (I think!). I would even suggest reading it ;). Vote here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/69K38W8
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Round One KHS Register Derby 2025 SurveySurveyMonkey logo with text in primary
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Yes, check this out and vote here! It's been so much working with the KHS, as they do such important work for bringing awareness to Kentucky's rich and fascinating history. surveymonkey.com/r/69K38W8
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Round One KHS Register Derby 2025 SurveySurveyMonkey logo with text in primary
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Kentucky Historical Society @kyhistsoc.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Dr. Willoughby's podcast episode is also a great way to learn more about his research: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Medical Education and Racial Science | Christopher Willoughby
Podcast Episode · Kentucky Chronicles: A Podcast of the Kentucky Historical Society · 02/07/2025 · 49m
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Vote for me please! I must win in good fun!
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
@ryangrim.bsky.social @krystalball.bsky.social Happy to be your on-call bloodletting expert.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Join us tomorrow for the next session of the #Slaveryarchive Book Club with @randybrowne.bsky.social on his book The Driver's Story, register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
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Brian Ward @brian222ward.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thrilled to guest edit a Special Issue of the Register of KY History on medicine and healthcare w/excellent contributions by @joanecashin.bsky.social @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social @jonathansjones.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social And stuff by me on Loretta Lynn! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54237
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Project MUSE - Register of the Kentucky Historical Society-Volume 122, Number 3&4, Summer/Autumn 2024
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Jessie Singer @jessiesinger.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
many weather-related deaths are "accidents" -- like overheatings, freezings, drownings, traffic crashes, or building collapses. but if we have the power and skill to warn people that threatening weather looms -- and we fire the people who make the warnings -- it's not "an accident" when people die.
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Fifth attempt at bread making went pretty well. First four tasted good but were various degrees of too dense.
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American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and huge thanks to the 2024-2025 Welch Medal committee! Stay tuned, the winner will be announced at our awards breakfast in Boston at AAHM 2025! histmed.org/william-h-we...
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William H. Welch Shortlist
William H. Welch Medal Shortlist The William H. Welch Medal is awarded to one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history publis...
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I wrote a review for @thelancet.bsky.social of Margaret Humphrey's excellent new book Searching for Dr. Harris published by @uncpress.bsky.social. Check it out here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Medicine and Black politics: Dr J D Harris's remarkable life
When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune Sm...
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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If This Isn’t Corruption, Nothing Is
Donald Trump once told voters he was fighting a corrupt political system. With Elon Musk operating with impunity throughout the federal government, Trump has taken political corruption to new and unpr...
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
They let me act like I am cutting the #DouglassDay cake!
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy #DouglassDay from @unlv.edu ! Thanks to cake designs and Lied Library Peer Mentor Coach Tayla Penn for the stamp design! Thanks @douglassday.bsky.social for organizing this amazing event!
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It’s beginning to look a lot like #DouglassDay
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'm feeling a strong sense of anticipation as I await the delivery of our #DouglassDay cake!
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I really enjoyed messing around in the Old West for my new article "Pioneer Professors of Kentucky Medical Education and the Spread of Racial Science, 1792-1861" in this special issue on health & medicine in Kentucky. Check it out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...
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Project MUSE - Pioneer Professors of Kentucky Medical Education and the Spread of Racial Science, 1792–1861
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In real good company including @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social and @jonathansjones.bsky.social with the latest issue of the Kentucky Register all about medicine and healthcare in the Bluegrass State. Check out my piece on KY women and birth control: doi.org/10.1353/khs....
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Project MUSE - "Voluntary motherhood" and the Vote: Connections between Birth Control and Suffrage
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Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
And check out the amazing articles in this health/medicine issue by @lmacthompson1.bsky.social, Joan Cashin, @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social, and Brian Ward! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54237 🗃️
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Project MUSE - Register of the Kentucky Historical Society-Volume 122, Number 3&4, Summer/Autumn 2024
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I'm so excited for this years Douglass Day @unlv.bsky.social ! Join us in the Goldfield Room of the Lied Library from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday 2/14. @douglassday.bsky.social
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
High fives to the amount of work I have gotten done in airports today.
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I'm so excited for this years Douglass Day @unlv.bsky.social ! Join us in the Goldfield Room of the Lied Library from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday 2/14. @douglassday.bsky.social
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Parisians, mark your calendars! I'll be giving a talk at Université Paris Cité on 2/5 at 1200 on my @uncpress.bsky.social book, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools. More info. here: larca.u-paris.fr/events/event...
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Séminaire HISTPOL Masters of the Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools (UNC Press, 2022), Christopher Willoughby | LARCA
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Fun Fact: Cuba has 94.3 physicians for every 10,000 citizens, and the U.S. has 36.1. The U.S. also spends nearly 10 times as much per citizen! Invest in human capital.
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The 700-word annual evaluation is a blessing and a curse. I don't want to write a longer statement, but I also have to cut words...
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Loic Wacquant in @newleftreview.bsky.social: "Afropessimism flounders because it denies the varieties of blackness and the historicity of racial domination that have been demonstrated time and again." newleftreview.org/issues/ii144...
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Loic Wacquant, Afropessimism’s Radical Abdication, NLR 144, November–December 2023
In radical counter-position to the ameliorative civil-rights tradition, the Afropessimist perspective blends memoir and theory, lyricism and abstraction, into a nihilistic vision of ‘slaveness’ as fou...
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"But our universities are no longer healthy. With power dangerously centralized, the defense of our institutions now hinges on the moral strength of a few wealthy individuals. That’s a thin shield." -Francois Furstenberg prospect.org/education/20...
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Universities and the Coming Storm
It’s difficult for colleges to defend democracy if they aren’t run democratically.
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Folks! Come hang out with me this summer at the PCB-AHA at Santa Clara University from 7/30-8/1. CFP is here: www.pcb-aha.org/wp-content/u.... I hope to give preliminary findings about the comparative of health of enslaved vs free corporate labor on sugar plantations.
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
It's official. I'm an expert. www.unlv.edu/news/expert/...
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Christopher D. E. Willoughby
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Jessie Singer @jessiesinger.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
People say regulations are bad for business, but letting corporations kill people is a far, far greater cost. New study from NHTSA: www.nhtsa.gov/press-releas...
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
@jeetheer.bsky.social "Ultimately, Democrats will have to decide whether they are a political party that is serious about winning power—or are just an employment agency for the superannuated." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Joe Biden’s Bodyguard of Liars Betrayed American Democracy
Gerontocracy, pro-establishment politics and deception by Democratic Party insiders all helped elect Donald Trump.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Grocery prices are out of control. 1 in 4 NYC kids isn't getting enough to eat. Local government must act. Today I'm announcing a major new proposal to lower costs and tackle price gouging: city-owned grocery stores. More at @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/n...
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N.Y.C. Grocery Prices Are High. Could City-Owned Stores Help? (Gift Article)
A New York City mayoral candidate wants the city to open its own, more affordable grocery stores. The idea has gained momentum in Chicago and other cities.
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Sanders is on point. Corporate greed is at the heart of systemic failures in our healthcare system. jacobin.com/2024/12/sand...
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Bernie Sanders: A Mass Movement Can Beat Health CEO Greed
We spoke to Bernie Sanders about alleged health insurance CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, the crisis of for-profit health care in America, why only a mass movement can win Medicare for All, and how to fig...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows."
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Americans Spend More Years Sick Than Rest of World, Study Finds
Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Big time article submitted... Fingers crossed and don't bite the nails. Eek!
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Friendly reminder! We're accepting abstracts until December 20th! DM me if you have any questions :)
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 03/12/2024
Alex, what are the things Democrats absurdly blame their failures on?
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Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Hot post-Thanksgiving take. I did my first spatchcocked turkey this year, and it turned out perfect in half the time. I've been mayo marinating for years, and I did a two-day dry brine this year. Crispy skin, moist meat perfection. I used J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's Herb-Mayo Turkey recipe as a guide.
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