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Ketil Slagstad

@slagstadk.bsky.social
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physician-historian at the Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Charité Berlin | history of psychiatry, health activism, HIV/AIDS, trans medicine Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (UCP, 2025) www.ketilslagstad.com

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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very pleased to share the first article from my research project on the history clinical research and biological psychiatry, published open access in Isis. The article analyses the introduction of pneumoencephalography in schizophrenia research in the 1950s. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A textbook page with machine written text and an interspersed radiograph of the skull with black shades in the center.
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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📣New issue now available online 📣 10 articles (7 open access) & 15 book reviews. Article topics include: asylums, T.B., death data, AIDS policy, & public hospitals with research exploring Britain, Denmark, Spain, Turkey and the Mediterranean covering 15-17th, 19th & 20th centuries!
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Volume 39 Issue 3 | 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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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Det var utrolig gøy og lærerikt å snakke om 100 år med seksualopplysning med Kari Nordberg, Åse Røthing og Ellen Støkken Dahl i Nasjonalbiblioteket. Se opptaket her. www.nb.no/tv/100-ar-me...
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100 år med seksualopplysning
Selv om seksualopplysning ikke lenger er tabu, er temaet fremdeles gjenstand for verdikamp og debatt. Denne kvelden møtes forfatter og medisinhistoriker Ketil Slagstad, historiker Kari Nordberg og pro...
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It was a pleasure to talk to @armanc.bsky.social about the history of trans medicine, activism, and the recurrent efforts to standardize sex on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast.
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I am so delighted and honored to be a part of this Past & Present Supplement, “Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850.” It was a pleasure and so enriching to work with @hsmurphy.bsky.social and the editors at @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/past...
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Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850
As the title suggests, the provocation of this Supplement is simple: that the histories of medicine, transatlantic slavery, and race cannot, and should not
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I am deeply honored by Myra Billund-Phibbs' thoughtful review of my book just published in Isis. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Ketil Slagstad. Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine. 304 pp., illus., notes, interviews, bibl., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. $35 (paper); ISBN 9780226843247. Cloth...
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Anmeldte John Green's "Everything Is Tuberculosis": Å si at alt er tuberkulose, innebærer å se sykdom som mer enn et avgrenset medisinsk fenomen. Snarere handler det om å fremheve det den tyske sosialmedisineren og reformpolitikeren Rudolf Virchow skrev i 1848, www.morgenbladet.no/boker/politi...
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(+) Politikk er medisin i stor skala
John Greens bok om tuberkulose viser den strukturelle urettferdigheten i hvem som rammes av sykdommen, og hvordan den behandles.
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thank you for joining the panel and presenting your fascinating research, @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and @anaantic.bsky.social ! Can't wait to read your forthcoming book on biological psychiatry, Alfred!
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Job Alert! Two-year postdoctoral position (100%, Jan 2027-Dec 2029) on the biological & social history of enteric pathogens in post-war France: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/448818 (1/4)
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Post-doctoral Position in History of Medicine, Social Sciences, and Geography
Archaeology of Disappeared Pathogens (ArchPath) reconstructs the interwoven biological and social histories of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid B) endemism and eradication in post-war France.
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It’s hot in Berlin but Kate Fisher’s research is hotter! An amazing conversation with artist Aliz Farkas and historian Ketil Slagstad on care, medicine, sexuality and the vital importance of history in navigating life today at Beyond Bare Life #DefendExeterUni @exeter.ac.uk @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Three people sitting in front of a screen in an old style lecture theater
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In his 1st lecture in front of almost 1000 people Dipesh Chakrabarty traced the long arc of anti-colonial constructions of a shared present, from Vera Zasulich to Ambedkar, and the processes that threw that shared “now-time” as well as the very idea of a shared future into crisis.
Dipesh Chakrabarty speaking at HKW in Berlin
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
@drnikko.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue proposal for Big Data and Society on "Trans Data"! If you're an #STS nerd, or a #transstudies nerd, or ideally both, do submit ideas if you have them - docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Big Data and Society - Trans Data CFP
Call for Papers Special Issue of Big Data & Society on Trans Data Data and trans lives go - both fortunately and unfortunately - together. From surveillance systems seeking to normalise and control t...
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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Incredible opportunity to work with Dr Hannah Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social on a funded PhD project exploring unorthodox forms of health activism in postwar Britain. Full details here, do share widely! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
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Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 | University of Strathclyde
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Jacobo @jacobolcar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Yesterday, we celebrated the 5th anniversary of the @mdc-berlin.bsky.social Pride Symposium with the memorable edition Trans Pasts 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Futures.  www.mdc-berlin.de/news/events/... Thanks to everyone who joined us and helped make this such a special moment! Here are some snapshots from the event
Speakers of the symposium on stage.Juliana Gleeson interviewing Dr. Ketil Slagstad on the history of trans medicine and the intersex liberation movementOrganizers and volunteers in a polaroid film
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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Finished Standardizing Sex by @slagstadk.bsky.social about a week ago and kept meaning to make a post! Wanted to post a handful of my immediate thoughts and reactions 🧵
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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Really interesting questions and answers. And a reminder I need to take 'Standardizing Sex' off the shelf at work and actually read it!
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Hello everyone, over the next few hours I’ll be answering questions on r/AskHistorians about my book *Standardizing Sex* and the history of trans medicine! @dhowlett1692.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I am Dr. Ketil Slagstad, here to talk about my book "Standardizing Sex" and the history of trans medicine. AMA!
Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community
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Jacob Steere-Williams @steerewilliams.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
First two books in the Epidemic Histories series with Johns Hopkins U-P on display at aahm2026, @visualplague.bsky.social !
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Join me on r/AskHistorians on Tuesday, June 9! I'll be answering questions about my book Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We invite you for our final event in the @socmederc.bsky.social seminar series on June 9, 2 pm CET: a conversation with @dinafainberg.bsky.social and Tal Zalmanovich on displacement and movement of expertise. Join us in Berlin or online, details below! socialistmedicine.com/june-9-speci... #histmed
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Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar
June 9 Seminar Special Roundtable - World in Turmoil: Displacement as Academic and Historical Experience
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Ich freue mich sehr darauf, am 6. Juni im Rahmen der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft gemeinsam mit den Studierenden der Universität der Künste die Geschichte der Medizin zu erkunden. Komm doch vorbei! @eahmh.bsky.social
Ein Plakat, auf dem in der Mitte eine Person zu sehen ist. Die Person ist von verschiedenen quadratischen Kästchen umgeben.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My thoughts are also hugely shaped by my core view that there are important distinctions between writing and AI-assisted (or automation-assisted) document production. I'm 100% focused on what it means to learn to write, not just make texts. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Writing Classes Are About Writing, Not AI-Aided Production
If we want students to learn to write, AI tools shouldn’t have much of a role. If we don’t think students need to learn to write anymore, I’m not sure what we’re doing here.
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I’m about to spend 8 hours of my life in a workshop on AI in the classroom so naturally I am spending my usual insomnia hours collecting some helpful (read:critical) threads about AI. Starting with this “thread in a thread” by @petertarras.bsky.social who gave me the idea bsky.app/profile/pete...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22/05/2026
‘The Ebola crisis should serve as an object lesson and rebuke to those who tolerate anaemic state funding of, or even cutbacks in, public health and healthcare delivery. Without staff, stuff, space and systems, nothing can be done.’ Paul Farmer on Ebola, from 2014: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
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Paul Farmer · Diary: Ebola
The Ebola virus is terrifying because it infects most of those who care for the afflicted and kills most of those who...
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We have now recruited two brilliant PhD students: one project will explore DIY transitioning and hormonal knowledge beyond the clinic in the two German republics; the other will analyze the medicalization of menopause in India, emphasizing feminist and local responses. @genderinsight.bsky.social
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fin artikkel av @jonblund02.bsky.social om hva vi kan lære av publiserte kasuistikker: en oppfordring om å gi plass til den uoversiktlige prosessen som ofte kjennetegner diagnostikk. tidsskriftet.no/2026/05/deba...
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Hva lærer vi egentlig av «Noe å lære av»?
20.05.2026: Debatt - Kasuistikker i spalten «Noe å lære av» i Tidsskriftet er ofte velskrevne og faglig interessante.
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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Just finished (and deeply enjoyed) the first chapter of @slagstadk.bsky.social's book Standardizing Sex. Current favourite quote, though I’m sure there are more to come 👀
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
So happy to see my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" published today with @hopkinspress.bsky.social! #histmed #histsci #plague #rats #pandemic www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The book is also available Open Access via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_mon...
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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I'm so pleased to see that this chapter has been published. It's in a wonderful open access collection, Sexual Violence in Medicine and Psychiatry: Addressing Harms Through Interdisciplinarity which emerged from the SHaME project at Birkbeck. Link here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Congratulations on receiving such a positive review for Wonder Foods, @haushoferl.bsky.social. I couldn't agree more — it's a meticulously researched book that's also beautifully written. www.hsozkult.de/publicationr... @hsozkult.bsky.social
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Rezension zu: L. Haushofer: Wonder Foods
Rezension zu / Review of: Haushofer, Lisa: : Wonder Foods. The Science and Commerce of Nutrition
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I en artikkel i Aftenposten kritiserte prof. @atlefretheim.bsky.social og u.t. hvordan resultatene av en ny finsk studie på medisinsk behandling til unge transkjønnede ble formidlet i forskningsartikkelen og i medieoppslag. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
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Den finske studien på transkjønnet ungdom viser ikke det den hevder å vise
Les debattinnlegget.
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Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Thrilled that my @jhideas.bsky.social article ‘When Jupiter Meets Saturn: Aby Warburg, Karl Sudhoff, and Astrological Medicine in the Age of Disenchantment’ has received the prestigious Förderpreis! Read my article here: muse.jhu.edu/article/926151 (OA link below) 🗃️ #history #HistMed #HistSci
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Xinyi Wen, PhD (Cambridge)
When Jupiter Meets Saturn: Aby Warburg, Karl Sudhoff, and Astrological Medicine in the Age of Disenchantment,
Journal of the History of Ideas 85, 2024, pp. 321-355
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Really looking forward to participating in the Trans Pasts – Trans Futures symposium on June 12 at @mdc-berlin.bsky.social alongside stellar researchers. Juliana Gleeson and I will talk about intersex and trans history and its significance for the present. www.mdc-berlin.de/de/news/even...
Poster with a symposium program
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910
Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Die Medizingeschichte der Charité ist bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft am 6. Juni stark dabei. Es gibt Führungen auf dem Gelände und im Museum und Vorträge über Säftelehre, Geburt und Trans*-Medizin in Kooperation mit Studierenden der Universität der Künste. www.charite.de/fileadmin/us...
Poster mit Programmplan
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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Very excited to add @slagstadk.bsky.social’s book on Scandinavian trans medicine to my growing collection of trans history books! 🏳️‍⚧️✨ Also the cover art is 10/10, scratches an itch I didn’t know my brain had
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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Monday 11 May, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. CET, we are organising a webinar to discuss our new edited volume, The Chronopolitics of Life. Come and join us! For more info and the event link, please visit this page: www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...
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The Chronopolitics of Life ⎥ Rethinking temporalities in health and biomedicine beyond the life course
Webinar organisé par Nolwenn Bühler (Unil), Nils Graber (Humboldt University of Berlin), Victoria Boydell (University College London) et Cinzia Greco (University of Manchester) suite à la publication ...
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Delighted to have my author's copies of How Plague Got Rats! A big thanks to series editors @steerewilliams.bsky.social @doravargha.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social & to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this project! Book publ. May 19 & OA www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The research “contributes hugely to the critical evidence that a house is a social determinant of health, a factor that is largely overlooked by health practitioners and those involved in building and construction,” adds Bernard Abong’o, an entomologist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute. 🧪
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This simple house may help prevent multiple fatal diseases in African children
Randomized, controlled trial shows the $8800 design can reduce cases of malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infection
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Alexandre Klein @alexandreklein.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
(New Issue) (Re)thinking the history of mental disorder and psychiatry: an approach through the South(s) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/repe... #histpsych
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Alila Brossard @alilacandonga.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Join us tomorrow in Berlin and online to hear Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social present his fascinating research on: Narcotic Drugs, International Trafficking and Global Prohibition in the German Democratic Republic All info here: socialistmedicine.com/april-14-ned...
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Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar
Monthly Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar, September 10
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A lucrative four-year full-time PhD position in the history of ideas with focus on psychiatry at Uppsala University is now open for applications. Deadline 30.04.2026. #histmed www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
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1 PhD candidate "History of Ideas with a specialization in psychiatry" (Uppsala Univ.)
Position now open within a highly interdisciplinary project: The doctoral student will work in close collaboration with the Centre for Medical Humanities and the Center for Preventive Psychiatry to in...
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Check out Kai Rechynska‘s beautiful comic about Christine Jorgensen based on my book Standardizing Sex. ausstellungen.berlin-university-collections.de/rooms-medizi...
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Virtuelle Ausstellungen - Heureka! Medizingeschichte - The story of Christine Jorgensen From „Standardizing Sex“ by Ketil Slagstad
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Alfred Freeborn @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Biomedical Visions spotted in the wild (The Wellcome) by @frankiedytor.bsky.social! No time for irl books? Too busy on BlueSky for excursions to Euston Road? Treat yourself to the totally free open access version here: www.hatjecantz.de/products/830... #histmed #histsci
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Dr. Claudia Barth @nifti12.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
🚀 Doctoral Network #GenderInsight - 15 Open PhD Positions! 🚀 I am hiring two PhD candidate for my German research group, based at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: see Clinical Lens, Projects 5 and 6! genderinsight.eu/en/recruitme...
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Positions | Gender Insight
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David Matthew Doyle @dsquared.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨Now recruiting 2 PhD students as part of Gender Insight MSCA doctoral network! My fabulous team at the Department of Medical Psychology at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social is growing. See link below or visit www.genderinsight.eu. Apply by end of February. werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/publicati...
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Vacatures - 2 PhDs in MSCA Network: Studying social influences on gender - Amsterdam UMC
Join the Marie Curie Doctoral Network! Two PhD opportunities in Gender-InSIGHT research at Amsterdam UMC. Investigate social health in trans individuals or the impact of social media on gender. Contribute to important, interdisciplinary research in a dynamic environment.
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health @eahmh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Wonderful job opportunities coming up in Berlin!
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Hadde gleden av å snakke med Mary Ann i podkasten Skeiv dagsorden om transmedisinsk historie. Vi snakker blant annet om eugenikken, velferdsstaten og sykeliggjøring av minoriteter. player.captivate.fm/episode/f70d...
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Transmedisinens historie med Ketil Slagstad
Quickly and easily listen to Skeiv dagsorden for free!
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Come work with us! Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin. The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions. Deadline 28 Feb 2026 #histmed genderinsight.eu
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Gender Insight
Through co-creation and mixed methods research the projects will increase our understanding of the influence of biopsychosocial factors during hormonal transitions such as puberty and menopause, in th...
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Karl Kahlbaums Nosologie war für Emil Kraepelin von großer Bedeutung, und daher ist es eine besondere Freude, in der Bibliothek auf sein Originalexemplar zu stoßen.
Title page of book
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