Lydia Wytenbroek
@lydiawytenbroek.bsky.social
President, Canadian Association for the History of Nursing
Co-Lead, Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry
Historian & Assistant Professor, UBC Nursing
Co-Lead, Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry
Historian & Assistant Professor, UBC Nursing
Take a look at our video on Indigenous Nurse Leaders in Canada: youtu.be/V7lNpPvQGRo?... It is part of our project, Untelling Nursing History: Centering the Voices of BIPOC Nurses, which includes an interactive website and 11 videos r/t decolonizing nursing history. @ubc-vnursing.bsky.social
Indigenous Nursing Leaders in Canada
YouTube video by Lydia Wytenbroek
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Take a look at our video on Indigenous Nurse Leaders in Canada: youtu.be/V7lNpPvQGRo?... It is part of our project, Untelling Nursing History: Centering the Voices of BIPOC Nurses, which includes an interactive website and 11 videos r/t decolonizing nursing history. @ubc-vnursing.bsky.social
I was walking around a track yesterday evening when someone kicked a soccer ball over a fence and it hit me directly in the head - very hard - and now I have a concussion. 🤦🏼♀️
September 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I was walking around a track yesterday evening when someone kicked a soccer ball over a fence and it hit me directly in the head - very hard - and now I have a concussion. 🤦🏼♀️
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Happening this Friday from 12-1 pm Eastern time!
Join us for Lydia Wytenbroek presenting "Icons and Illustrations: American Nursing in Iran Through Images and Artefacts"
Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...
#histnursing #histmed
Join us for Lydia Wytenbroek presenting "Icons and Illustrations: American Nursing in Iran Through Images and Artefacts"
Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...
#histnursing #histmed
September 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Happening this Friday from 12-1 pm Eastern time!
Join us for Lydia Wytenbroek presenting "Icons and Illustrations: American Nursing in Iran Through Images and Artefacts"
Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...
#histnursing #histmed
Join us for Lydia Wytenbroek presenting "Icons and Illustrations: American Nursing in Iran Through Images and Artefacts"
Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...
#histnursing #histmed
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US nursing history in Iran #histnursing
Happening this Friday from 12-1 pm Eastern time!
Join us for Lydia Wytenbroek presenting "Icons and Illustrations: American Nursing in Iran Through Images and Artefacts"
Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...
#histnursing #histmed
Join us for Lydia Wytenbroek presenting "Icons and Illustrations: American Nursing in Iran Through Images and Artefacts"
Register here: aahn.memberclicks.net/virtual-spea...
#histnursing #histmed
September 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
US nursing history in Iran #histnursing
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"Eugenics was rooted in rational modern science then" needs re-stating. Far too many people describe eugenics as a "pseudoscience", but it wasn't to those who studied it, wrote books and papers, formed societies and argued its benefits.
But that was also rooted in „rational“, modern science then and these eugenicist elements are still present in science today. I think it’s dangerous, as Gourevitch does, to act as if this logics aren’t deeply rooted in specific forms of modernity, rationality and science.
August 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Eugenics was rooted in rational modern science then" needs re-stating. Far too many people describe eugenics as a "pseudoscience", but it wasn't to those who studied it, wrote books and papers, formed societies and argued its benefits.
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EVENT COMING UP with BC Physicians Against Genocide: Health Report from Gaza w Dr Deirdre Nunan and CCJ Co-Director @naomiaklein.bsky.social. Sept 8, 7pm; in person & hybrid. RSVP in the links on webpage: climatejustice.ubc.ca/events/event...
August 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
EVENT COMING UP with BC Physicians Against Genocide: Health Report from Gaza w Dr Deirdre Nunan and CCJ Co-Director @naomiaklein.bsky.social. Sept 8, 7pm; in person & hybrid. RSVP in the links on webpage: climatejustice.ubc.ca/events/event...
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Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity. Deadline to apply: October 1, 2025. #cdnhist @dalhistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity. Deadline to apply: October 1, 2025. #cdnhist @dalhistory.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
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Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...
PhD Scholarship: Pacific Powers - Flinders University
www.flinders.edu.au
August 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...
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The politicization of public health is neither a new phenomenon nor something that can be overcome. I wish it were otherwise but it's not.
(This is not to deny some of the unique problems we are experiencing in public health at this particular moment. But still).
(This is not to deny some of the unique problems we are experiencing in public health at this particular moment. But still).
Against the Very Idea of the Politicization of Public Health Policy
I criticize the concern over the politicization of public health policy as a justification for preferring a narrow to a broad model of public health. My critique proceeds along 2 lines. First, the fac...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
August 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The politicization of public health is neither a new phenomenon nor something that can be overcome. I wish it were otherwise but it's not.
(This is not to deny some of the unique problems we are experiencing in public health at this particular moment. But still).
(This is not to deny some of the unique problems we are experiencing in public health at this particular moment. But still).
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My piece for The RCP Commentary Magazine for #SouthAsianHeritageMonth.
This is my lovely Mum and Dad in 1969.
Immigrants helped build the NHS
www.rcp.ac.uk/78702?utm_so...
This is my lovely Mum and Dad in 1969.
Immigrants helped build the NHS
www.rcp.ac.uk/78702?utm_so...
Roots to Routes: why South Asian Heritage Month matters to the NHS
www.rcp.ac.uk
August 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
My piece for The RCP Commentary Magazine for #SouthAsianHeritageMonth.
This is my lovely Mum and Dad in 1969.
Immigrants helped build the NHS
www.rcp.ac.uk/78702?utm_so...
This is my lovely Mum and Dad in 1969.
Immigrants helped build the NHS
www.rcp.ac.uk/78702?utm_so...
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“I promised myself that if I ever got to the other side of it, if it ever got easier, I would view small moments of personal inconvenience in service of our shared humanity and inclusion as a sacrifice I am grateful to make.”
Children's Spaces With No Children
Have we lost our very minds?
open.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
“I promised myself that if I ever got to the other side of it, if it ever got easier, I would view small moments of personal inconvenience in service of our shared humanity and inclusion as a sacrifice I am grateful to make.”
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"More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime of the country’s catastrophic conflict."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians
Guardian investigation finds number killed in April attack by Rapid Support Forces far greater than current estimates
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime of the country’s catastrophic conflict."
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
“There is no value-add to using generative AI for historical work…And when it comes to writing history, I feel very strongly that the value of searching for and using words to brainstorm, draft, redraft, polish writing skills, and discover our own thinking is paramount.”
August 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“There is no value-add to using generative AI for historical work…And when it comes to writing history, I feel very strongly that the value of searching for and using words to brainstorm, draft, redraft, polish writing skills, and discover our own thinking is paramount.”
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Free book from @illinoispress.bsky.social:
Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed, foreword by Darlene Clark Hine
mailchi.mp/illinois/co2...
Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed, foreword by Darlene Clark Hine
mailchi.mp/illinois/co2...
August 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Free book from @illinoispress.bsky.social:
Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed, foreword by Darlene Clark Hine
mailchi.mp/illinois/co2...
Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed, foreword by Darlene Clark Hine
mailchi.mp/illinois/co2...
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We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Leslie Reagan's keynote theme for our 75th/50th Anniversary Celebration: “Doing Histories of Medicine and Public Health: A Radical Project,” promises to be a powerful highlight of the evening!
📍 10/9/2025, 5:30–7:30 PM, Pyle Center
Register: bit.ly/45GtfR4 #OnWisconsin
📍 10/9/2025, 5:30–7:30 PM, Pyle Center
Register: bit.ly/45GtfR4 #OnWisconsin
August 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Leslie Reagan's keynote theme for our 75th/50th Anniversary Celebration: “Doing Histories of Medicine and Public Health: A Radical Project,” promises to be a powerful highlight of the evening!
📍 10/9/2025, 5:30–7:30 PM, Pyle Center
Register: bit.ly/45GtfR4 #OnWisconsin
📍 10/9/2025, 5:30–7:30 PM, Pyle Center
Register: bit.ly/45GtfR4 #OnWisconsin
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Do Less Harm is FINALLY here! Y'all should buy like 12 copies each k thanks
August 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Do Less Harm is FINALLY here! Y'all should buy like 12 copies each k thanks
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Register now (deadline is 8/5) for Term 1 online courses: Introduction to the History of Medicine; Science & the practice of medicine; Work of Healing: Medicine & Materiality.
For more info: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/non-degree-p...
To register: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/online-progr...
For more info: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/non-degree-p...
To register: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/online-progr...
August 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Register now (deadline is 8/5) for Term 1 online courses: Introduction to the History of Medicine; Science & the practice of medicine; Work of Healing: Medicine & Materiality.
For more info: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/non-degree-p...
To register: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/online-progr...
For more info: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/non-degree-p...
To register: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/online-progr...
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"...adopting a critical approach to settler family histories helps challenge the myth of Canadian benevolence, solidifies our understanding of the foundational violence of settler colonialism, and exemplifies the truth–telling that needs to come with settler reconciliation to Indigenous Peoples..."
Very excited to read @maddieknicker.bsky.social's new article in *Settler Colonial Studies,* entitled "Unsettling our family history: critical interventions in settler Canadian pasts"! #cdnhist www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unsettling our family history: critical interventions in settler Canadian pasts
This article explores seven generations of our family's participation in settler colonialism at different times and in different places across Canada. The ancestors we focus on came to North Americ...
www.tandfonline.com
July 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"...adopting a critical approach to settler family histories helps challenge the myth of Canadian benevolence, solidifies our understanding of the foundational violence of settler colonialism, and exemplifies the truth–telling that needs to come with settler reconciliation to Indigenous Peoples..."
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History is not easy. You can't just read a book or two and call it a day.
Journals, of all disciplines, MUST do better. Stop publishing "historical" research without consulting actual historians who work in the field.
#MedMed #HistMed #MedievalSky #Skystorians
4/x
Journals, of all disciplines, MUST do better. Stop publishing "historical" research without consulting actual historians who work in the field.
#MedMed #HistMed #MedievalSky #Skystorians
4/x
July 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
History is not easy. You can't just read a book or two and call it a day.
Journals, of all disciplines, MUST do better. Stop publishing "historical" research without consulting actual historians who work in the field.
#MedMed #HistMed #MedievalSky #Skystorians
4/x
Journals, of all disciplines, MUST do better. Stop publishing "historical" research without consulting actual historians who work in the field.
#MedMed #HistMed #MedievalSky #Skystorians
4/x
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A plea:
I am 100% here for interdisciplinary work. But that work actually has to be INTERDISCIPLINARY: people working together across fields.
Not just someone from one field thinking that history is "easy" and, for that reason, "anyone can do it.
1/x
#HistMed #Skystorians #Medievalsky
I am 100% here for interdisciplinary work. But that work actually has to be INTERDISCIPLINARY: people working together across fields.
Not just someone from one field thinking that history is "easy" and, for that reason, "anyone can do it.
1/x
#HistMed #Skystorians #Medievalsky
July 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A plea:
I am 100% here for interdisciplinary work. But that work actually has to be INTERDISCIPLINARY: people working together across fields.
Not just someone from one field thinking that history is "easy" and, for that reason, "anyone can do it.
1/x
#HistMed #Skystorians #Medievalsky
I am 100% here for interdisciplinary work. But that work actually has to be INTERDISCIPLINARY: people working together across fields.
Not just someone from one field thinking that history is "easy" and, for that reason, "anyone can do it.
1/x
#HistMed #Skystorians #Medievalsky
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I knew y’all would deliver.
But DANG did y’all DELIVER. 🥹
This is one heck of a reading list, for my class, for me (about 1/2 of these are new to me! yay!), and for anyone interested in the history of disease!
#HistMed
But DANG did y’all DELIVER. 🥹
This is one heck of a reading list, for my class, for me (about 1/2 of these are new to me! yay!), and for anyone interested in the history of disease!
#HistMed
Teaching a course this fall on contagion in history (pandemics, epidemics, understanding how people understood how disease spread, etc) this fall. Super excited about this one.
Any recommendations for accessible, engaging, and/or fun sources for first semester freshmen?
#histmed #skystorians
Any recommendations for accessible, engaging, and/or fun sources for first semester freshmen?
#histmed #skystorians
July 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I knew y’all would deliver.
But DANG did y’all DELIVER. 🥹
This is one heck of a reading list, for my class, for me (about 1/2 of these are new to me! yay!), and for anyone interested in the history of disease!
#HistMed
But DANG did y’all DELIVER. 🥹
This is one heck of a reading list, for my class, for me (about 1/2 of these are new to me! yay!), and for anyone interested in the history of disease!
#HistMed
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On the fiction that we're in total control of our health.
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
July 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
On the fiction that we're in total control of our health.
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
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Teaching a course this fall on contagion in history (pandemics, epidemics, understanding how people understood how disease spread, etc) this fall. Super excited about this one.
Any recommendations for accessible, engaging, and/or fun sources for first semester freshmen?
#histmed #skystorians
Any recommendations for accessible, engaging, and/or fun sources for first semester freshmen?
#histmed #skystorians
July 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Teaching a course this fall on contagion in history (pandemics, epidemics, understanding how people understood how disease spread, etc) this fall. Super excited about this one.
Any recommendations for accessible, engaging, and/or fun sources for first semester freshmen?
#histmed #skystorians
Any recommendations for accessible, engaging, and/or fun sources for first semester freshmen?
#histmed #skystorians
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All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.