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Flurin Condrau

@fcondrau.bsky.social
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Professor of the history of medicine @uzh_en in Switzerland; interested in #HistSTM, #histmed. Co-editor of Social History of Medicine; using BlueSky in personal capacity.

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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bewerbt Euch für den Early Career Award! Prämiert werden drei Artikel, die kürzlich in der Schweiz oder im Ausland publiziert wurden, hohe Qualität aufweisen und Impulse über das eigene Fachgebiet hinaus gehen. Ich und meine Jury-Kolleg:innen freuen uns auf Eure Artikel! www.sagw.ch/de/foerderun...
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Bewerben Sie sich für den Early Career Award der SAGW.
Mit dem Early Career Award zeichnen wir herausragende wissenschaftliche Artikel von Forscherinnen und Forschern in einer frühen Phase ihrer Karriere aus.
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Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On students, primary sources, and the evident interpretive dangers LLMs pose: www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Important short text for our syllabi: The "flattening" of history by AI bots, and the loss of nuance when looking at sources. Excellent little piece for all interested in history - #histmed #histstm
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Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sehr interessanter, kurzer Artikel, der anhand eines Fallbeispiels die Gefahren von GenAI für historische Quellen & ihre Wahrnehmung darstellt. Wirklich lesenswert, da es Verzerrungen & Halluzinationen inkl. deren Ursprüngen klar einordnet. Bitte nie ChatGPT & co für Quellen benützen!
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🆕 Our new editorial in the European Journal of Public Health, by @tiagocorreia.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social & me We use the Fauci diaries to discuss “collection, curation, & publication of records of decision-making during a crisis” academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...
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Uncertainty on trial: the Fauci diary disclosure and the protection of scientific deliberation 
Tiago Correia , Martin McKee , Christina Pagel , Gavin Yamey
European Journal of Public Health, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2026, ckag160, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckag160
Published: 26 August 2026
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Extended Call for Posters: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine September 25-26, 2026 Johns Hopkins University A limited amount of space is available for poster presentations. For details 👇 #histSTM #histmed
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UPCOMING SSHM SUPPORTED EVENTS
Extended Call for Posters: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine September 25-26, 2026 Johns Hopkins University The Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University wil…
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Our Intro (open-access) explains our aim to analyse the entanglements of medicine, science + imperialism across the 19th+20thc, showing how "health" both sustained + destabilised colonial rule through the circulation of knowledge + uneven governance of race, gender + class: doi.org/10.1093/shm/...
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Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism
Abstract. This special issue explores the entanglements of medicine, science, and imperialism across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, foregrounding
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Over the moon that the special issue of Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social I co-edited with Sam Goodman on "Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism" is finally out in the world. Endless gratitude to @fcondrau.bsky.social. All article links below: academic.oup.com/shm/issue
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Issues | Social History of Medicine | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A few days left to apply for this. As the thread notes, this is the starting level but open to more senior people too.
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#Gendermedizin #Medizingeschichte Kürzlich habe ich mit Carolin Lerchenmüller an einem Podcast zur Gendermedizin mitgewirkt, moderiert von Bigna Silberschmidt. open.spotify.com/episode/2TFn...
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«Warum brauchen wir Gendermedizin?» | Prof. Dr. med. Carolin Lerchenmüller & Prof. Dr. Flurin Condrau
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
As is characteristic of his generocity to colleagues & students, Guenter "requested this retrospective of his life be published after his passing in gratitude for all the people who influenced his life and assisted him in his academic career" www.gbrisse.com/blog
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Blog — Dr. Guenter B. Risse, M.D., Ph.D.
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Really great article on Shere Hite - a history graduate nonetheless. Her pioneering role for #gendermedicine cannot be overestimated.
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Sad to learn of Guenter Risse‘s passing. He was a friend, mentor and supporter through crucial times in my career and took particular pleasure improving my English. I owe him a lot.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is the front cover of the new edition of @thelancet.com (thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing) #HealthPolicy #Science 🧪🧵
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Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
One week left to enter @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6 Deadline: Sunday 1 February #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Looking forward to teaching the history of the #who on the day of a political explosion due to new alcohol guidelines in switzerland. #histmed
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the Covid report could say | Devi Sridhar
To prevent a future pandemic we’d need agile leadership, smart decision-making, humility and trustworthiness. How does one build those into a political system, asks Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global ...
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Barry Doyle @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Hi @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social CFP for @eurohealthhist.bsky.social session at European Association for Urban History conf in Barcelona (2-5 Sept 2026). Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in 20th Century www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session83 deadline: 22 Oct 2025).
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Sessions - EAUH2026
Sessions go to quick Sessions’ overview Session 1 Main Session The Cities that made the Empire: Connectivity and Urban Networks from Late Republican to Imperial Times Organizers Noelia Cases MoraUnive...
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
A weird German word in academic circles is Selbstzahler. When conferences organise dinners (or drinks) but expect you to pay your own way. But then again, I remember a wedding do in the UK with a cash bar. The same idea, different context.
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
#Gesundheitswesen #Gesundheitskosten #Schweiz Tolles Interview mit Andreas Kistler zu Gesundheitskosten. Marktwirtschaftliche Organisation ohne Regulierung (und Koordination) versagt. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/krankenkasse...
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Chefarzt fordert radikalen Umbau: «Ich sehe keinen vernünftigen Grund, eine Vielzahl von Krankenkassen zu betreiben»
Andreas Kistler sieht in den Marktmechanismen im Gesundheitswesen einen Grund für die Kostenexplosion. Die Spitäler würde er in eine nationale Gesundheitsorganisation integrieren.
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#histmed reviewer 3: "Just a historical paper with limited scientific value" - and how is your Monday going?
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health William Foege and 8 other former CDC directors www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Massive opportunity to work with us in Edinburgh on Medicine without Doctors. 5 full-time postdocs each for 5 years starting in April 2026. Please share widely!
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The Economist @economist.com · 20/08/2025
Your health has more to do with where you live than “what you individually do”, says Devi Sridhar on “Babbage”
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Devi Sridhar: living a long life isn’t a solo endeavour
Our podcast on science and technology. Why government policy is key to increasing life expectancy
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Interesting new book by old friend and #histmed colleague Christoph Gradmann: Another Magic Mountain: Kibong’oto Hospital and African Tuberculosis, 1920-2000 (Ohio University Press, 2025). doi.org/10.2307/jj.2... www.ohioswallow.com/978082142633...
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Another Magic Mountain
Kibong’oto Hospital, opened in 1926, is an East African tuberculosis treatment center located on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Its history is crucial to...
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Ernst Langthaler @elangthaler.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Das "Zeitalter der Extreme" durch die Linse der Ernährung: Das ist das Thema meines vierten und letzten Podcasts zur ORF-Serie "Österreich - die ganze Geschichte". sound.orf.at/podcast/tv/o...
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Österreich - die ganze Geschichte - Hunger, Überfluss, Identität – Österreichs Ernährungsgeschichte
Diese Episode zeichnet die Geschichte der Ernährung in Österreich nach: von der höfischen Überfülle bis zur Mangelwirtschaft der Weltkriege, von bäuerlichen Essgewohnheiten bis zur heutigen Überflussg...
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Switzerland raises, on average, 25% import duties on agricultural products. For cheese, meat & vegetables often in excess of 100%. Consumers pay this, and popular votes regularly confirm the pillars of protectionist policies. Info from here (in German): www.avenir-suisse.ch/blog-zollfes...
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Zollfestung Schweiz: Sieben Fragen zum Agrarprotektionismus - Avenir Suisse
Kennen Sie Donald Trumps Lieblingswort? Es heisst «tariffs», also Zölle. Trumps Ankündigung, gegen fast jedes Land im Minimum 10% Zölle zu erheben, treibt
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Great opinion piece in the @mtlgazette.bsky.social on recent court decisions regarding Canadian pro hockey players. www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
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Hanes: Sexual assault trials involving hockey players raise questions about locker-room bro culture
The Hockey Canada trial and two other recent cases had different outcomes, but troubling similarities.
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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Open position⚠️ Come join us in Zurich as a pre-doc/research assistant in a diverse team working on a number of research projects on public finance, political economy and social wellbeing in Tanzania, DRC, Ecuador and Chile. Applications here: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/pre-...
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
So proud of the Swiss women‘s team tonight at the #euro2025 - fighting quality until the end.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Read this, bookmark it, download it (& print it, too, if you want to go all out). But make sure you & yours know that medical history ( #histmed) has a solid response to the nonsense our HHS secretary is spouting. nursingclio.org/2025/06/30/m... 🧪🗃️ And follow @nursingclio.bsky.social. #MiasmaTheory
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Miasma Theory: A Primer
I recently received an unusual request—could I explain miasma theory to an NPR reporter? Miasma theory is suddenly newsworthy, roughly 150 years after germ theory displaced this explanation for the…
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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...
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At a time of crisis for the profession, a unique collection of interviews demonstrates the importance of history. - History & Policy
At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK, the Institute of Historical Research has made available a unique archive of interviews with some of the profession's leading post-war Bri...
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Letzter Aufruf: Ich suche zur Verstärkung unseres Teams in Zürich Doktorand:in in Medizingeschichte - I look for one doctoral student for medical history to join us in Zurich. Deadline 30.6.2025. Details: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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UZH: Assistant History of Medicine
The History of Medicine Group within the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Zurich, led by Professor Flurin Condrau, seek...
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GWMT @gwmt.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Herzlich Willkommen auf Bluesky, @driburgerkreis.bsky.social ! #histsci #histmed #histtech
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GWMT @gwmt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
📢 "ANIMAL-BASED: Historische Perspektiven auf Tiere in Medizin, Wissenschaft und Technik" Das Programm der Jahrestagung 2025 an der @tudresden.bsky.social ist jetzt online. Programm und Anmeldungen auf www.gwmt.de #gwmt2025 #histsci #histmed #histtech
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"The Mask" by @brunostrasser.bsky.social and #thomasschlich is out today. I have listened to talks and seen some papers and cannot wait to read this.
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
✨Join the team ✨ The Society's peer reviewed journal Social History of Medicine published by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has a vacancy for a co-editor. Deadline for applications 27 June 2025 Further details available at sshm.org/notices/ #histmed #skystorians
Front cover of the journal Social History of Medicine published by Oxford University Press. Purple cover with white text.The logo for the Society for the Social History of Medicine - a purple background with the central design of letters SSHM a lighter shade of purple.
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Excited to share a new commentary with @gcagatgcaatg.bsky.social in NPJ #Antimicrobials & Resistance on the need to expand narrow clinical approaches & reconceptualise #AMR within a #planetaryboundaries framework: www.nature.com/articles/s44... @cermes3.bsky.social @willhgaze.bsky.social #histmed
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Beyond breakpoint – reconceptualising AMR as a symptom of planetary stress
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Planetary boundaries range from climate change to biosphere integrity. They define the safe space for humanity. Ecosystem impacts on microbes are missing from a...
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
What a fabulous gem if an essay on AI and education. big question remains: what is there to do apart frm more face-to-face interaction?
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨Salaried PhD position in history of medicine at the University of Zurich with the wonderful @fcondrau.bsky.social 🚨 (ignore the 60%, this is just the Swiss system, and amounts to a very respectable pay) #histmed #histstm jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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UZH: Assistant History of Medicine
The History of Medicine Group within the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Zurich, led by Professor Flurin Condrau, seek...
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Matthew Smith @healthhistory.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
sshm.org/notices/ Vacancy: Social History of Medicine journal is seeking a Co-Editor. Please consider applying!
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Vacancy: Co-Editor for Social History of Medicine Social History of Medicine (SHM) seeks a new co-editor to join Dr Elma Brenner (co-editor), Professor Flurin Condrau (co-editor), Dr Janet Greenlee…
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Announcing our "Historicizing Farm Animals" conference keynote lecture by @hannahlandecker.bsky.social 11 June 2025, 6.30pm local time - join us on Zoom or in person in Zurich. #histmed #onehealth
Poster for the keynote lecture by Hannah Landecker as part of our "Historicizing Farm Animals" conference in Zurich on 11 June 6.30pm, including QRL code for remote access.
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Temporary Lecturer in Social Anthropology post (24 months) is now open @standrewsanthro.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC376/t...
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Temporary Lecturer in Social Anthropology - AO1985LS at University of St Andrews
Apply now for the Temporary Lecturer in Social Anthropology - AO1985LS role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Application for my ETA to travel to the UK: "Because you live in Switzerland you have to pay in Euros." I don't know why but this strikes me as funny.
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Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Mark your calendars! 📅 I'm thrilled to share the line-up for the fall 2025 Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series. Hope you'll be able to join us for one or more of these sessions! seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia #histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #sts #envhist #envhum 🧪
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American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It's almost Annual Meeting time, #histmed, and this is a special one -- AAHM's 100th birthday! But if you can't be with us in Boston, you can still join us to celebrate. We'll be livestreaming several exciting program events. Registration info in the thread below 👇 #aahm2025
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Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Well written and troublesome at the same time: "Taking over the past is a point of no return. It's not that we can't get back to who we once were. It's that we won't even remember it." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... #histmed
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Opinion | Scroll through Trump’s new covid website — and have your mind blown
Scrolling through Trump’s latest foray into history-washing.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Things look very grim for tuberculosis services due to abrupt cuts by the US government Join us on Monday, on World TB Day as we discuss the latest crisis Date: Monday, March 24, 2025 Time: 12 p.m. EDT / 9 a.m. PDT RSVP: bit.ly/3XO86iQ
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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
You know what happens with drug rationing? Drug rationing doesn’t just cause horrible, preventable deaths—it causes antiretroviral resistance. That means future infections will be harder to treat, everywhere. The consequences don’t stop at one person; they spread globally
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