@thomasschlich.bsky.social
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Le Courrier, 25 Nov. 2025
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Le Courrier, 25 Nov. 2025
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Montre-moi ton masque, je te dirai qui tu es - Le Courrier
Dans quelques milliers d’années, il sera possible aux archéologues de dater les couches de terre de la période 2020-2022 sans instrument. Les masses de masques chirurgicaux bleus, verts ou blancs serv...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
« Agréable à lire, The Mask excelle là où beaucoup échouent: le livre vulgarise un savoir dense tout en présentant des recherches originales. »
Le Courrier, 25 Nov. 2025
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Le Courrier, 25 Nov. 2025
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First reviews of our Mask Book are appearing: An “engrossing, finely illustrated account”, Nature 21 Nov. 2025
"Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Of masks and Mayans: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
First reviews of our Mask Book are appearing: An “engrossing, finely illustrated account”, Nature 21 Nov. 2025
"Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This is excellent.
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is excellent.
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OMG this is amazing
We have lots of student notebooks containing sketches on anatomy, diseases etc, however, this one is by far our favourite. It shows Joseph Lister, father of antiseptic surgery, disappearing through a trapdoor after his lecture in Glasgow in 1868. Now that's how to make an exit!
#Museum30 #Sketchbook
#Museum30 #Sketchbook
November 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
OMG this is amazing
Happy to announce our new paper on the history of air pollution in the workplace just published in The Lancet:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Masking harm: dust, diseases, and industry
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we were all reminded of the long history of masks used
as protection against disease, ranging from the iconic plague doctor's beaked mask
to the cloth masks seen in histo...
www.thelancet.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Happy to announce our new paper on the history of air pollution in the workplace just published in The Lancet:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The "Active History" website (a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current event )has published our post on the anti-mask and anti-vaccine movement:
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/10...
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/10...
How the History of the Anti-mask and Anti-vaccination Movements Hang Together
Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is best known as a vaccination skeptic, but he is also skeptical about using masks for infection control. At the Libertarian National Conv…
activehistory.ca
October 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The "Active History" website (a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current event )has published our post on the anti-mask and anti-vaccine movement:
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/10...
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/10...
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"An engaging read. ...Covering a broad sweep of history, Strasser and Schlich offer a thoughtful reflection on what masks say about both the wearer and society." —Anthropology Book Forum's rave review of The Mask.
October 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"An engaging read. ...Covering a broad sweep of history, Strasser and Schlich offer a thoughtful reflection on what masks say about both the wearer and society." —Anthropology Book Forum's rave review of The Mask.
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Congratulations, Dr. @thomasschlich.bsky.social!
His project grant analyzes the documents and mechanisms that led to McGill University’s limited quota admission of Jewish medical students between 1920-1960.
More here:
buff.ly/fPj1m8j
#HoH2025 @healthsciences.mcgill.ca
His project grant analyzes the documents and mechanisms that led to McGill University’s limited quota admission of Jewish medical students between 1920-1960.
More here:
buff.ly/fPj1m8j
#HoH2025 @healthsciences.mcgill.ca
October 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Congratulations, Dr. @thomasschlich.bsky.social!
His project grant analyzes the documents and mechanisms that led to McGill University’s limited quota admission of Jewish medical students between 1920-1960.
More here:
buff.ly/fPj1m8j
#HoH2025 @healthsciences.mcgill.ca
His project grant analyzes the documents and mechanisms that led to McGill University’s limited quota admission of Jewish medical students between 1920-1960.
More here:
buff.ly/fPj1m8j
#HoH2025 @healthsciences.mcgill.ca
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📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
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We are delighted to announce the 2025 History of Healthcare Awards recipients!
Since 2015, this program has supported over 80 historians in investigating Canada's history of health, disease, and medicine.
Read more here:
buff.ly/dl4t4yg
#HoH2025
Since 2015, this program has supported over 80 historians in investigating Canada's history of health, disease, and medicine.
Read more here:
buff.ly/dl4t4yg
#HoH2025
October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We are delighted to announce the 2025 History of Healthcare Awards recipients!
Since 2015, this program has supported over 80 historians in investigating Canada's history of health, disease, and medicine.
Read more here:
buff.ly/dl4t4yg
#HoH2025
Since 2015, this program has supported over 80 historians in investigating Canada's history of health, disease, and medicine.
Read more here:
buff.ly/dl4t4yg
#HoH2025
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I understand why people get frustrated when liberals fixate on things like ICE wearing masks. But the masks symbolize something very dangerous, the very thing people frustrated with liberals are worried about—absolute impunity from a secret police who report directly to a fascist.
October 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I understand why people get frustrated when liberals fixate on things like ICE wearing masks. But the masks symbolize something very dangerous, the very thing people frustrated with liberals are worried about—absolute impunity from a secret police who report directly to a fascist.
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Violet Affleck’s impassioned call at #UNGA80 for masking and clean #indoorair is the latest episode in the long —and always controversial— history of masks. To explore the earlier chapters and better understand what’s happening today, check out our book!
tinyurl.com/579pz264
tinyurl.com/579pz264
September 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Violet Affleck’s impassioned call at #UNGA80 for masking and clean #indoorair is the latest episode in the long —and always controversial— history of masks. To explore the earlier chapters and better understand what’s happening today, check out our book!
tinyurl.com/579pz264
tinyurl.com/579pz264
Book launch with a most interesting panel. Looking forward to the discussions.
September 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Book launch with a most interesting panel. Looking forward to the discussions.
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📣5 five-year postdoc positions at University of Edinburgh
check out 🧵below for more details about each post 👇
#histmed
check out 🧵below for more details about each post 👇
#histmed
Five fabulous five-year postdoc positions at University of Edinburgh, as part of the wonderful Medicine Without Doctors project (www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org)
Medicine without Doctors
www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org
August 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📣5 five-year postdoc positions at University of Edinburgh
check out 🧵below for more details about each post 👇
#histmed
check out 🧵below for more details about each post 👇
#histmed
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Projit Mukharji opens his lecture at #EAHMH25 with the following point: 1/3 of all human beings live either in China or India. Yet, most scholarship in #histmed is about Western biomedicine.
@eahmh.bsky.social
@eahmh.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Projit Mukharji opens his lecture at #EAHMH25 with the following point: 1/3 of all human beings live either in China or India. Yet, most scholarship in #histmed is about Western biomedicine.
@eahmh.bsky.social
@eahmh.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Heidi Hausse! #eahmh25 @manchesterup.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Congratulations to Heidi Hausse! #eahmh25 @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Fascinating talk by Laura Smith on J. Marion Sims and the mechanisms by which he “whitewashed” the Black enslaved patients he experimented on in his medical publications
#EAHMH25
#EAHMH25
August 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Fascinating talk by Laura Smith on J. Marion Sims and the mechanisms by which he “whitewashed” the Black enslaved patients he experimented on in his medical publications
#EAHMH25
#EAHMH25
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#EAHMH25 Fascinating ongoing Lunch Roundtable around Bruno Strasser and Thomas Schlich’s book Making the Medical Mask: a History of Breathing Bad Air
August 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#EAHMH25 Fascinating ongoing Lunch Roundtable around Bruno Strasser and Thomas Schlich’s book Making the Medical Mask: a History of Breathing Bad Air
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@brunostrasser.bsky.social presents his book "The Mask" written with Thomas Schlich, a book that tells the story till the 1970s.
Published by @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social
#nocovid #eahmh25
Published by @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social
#nocovid #eahmh25
August 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
@brunostrasser.bsky.social presents his book "The Mask" written with Thomas Schlich, a book that tells the story till the 1970s.
Published by @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social
#nocovid #eahmh25
Published by @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social
#nocovid #eahmh25
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The Mask is discussed by David Gentilcore, Christoph Gradmann, @ahlie.bsky.social and @luchen.bsky.social
#eahmh25 #histmed
#eahmh25 #histmed
August 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The Mask is discussed by David Gentilcore, Christoph Gradmann, @ahlie.bsky.social and @luchen.bsky.social
#eahmh25 #histmed
#eahmh25 #histmed
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While immigrants are being demonised and dehumanised in most European countries, here is a reminder that Europe, for most of its history, has sent its migrants to all corners of the planet, doing much damage to indigenous populations.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What does a true Brit feel when we commemorate the war or fly the St George flag? Depends on the Brit | Mihir Bose
Politicians love a single, unifying narrative, but it’s more complicated for those of us who see UK life and history through a different lens, says author and broadcaster Mihir Bose
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
While immigrants are being demonised and dehumanised in most European countries, here is a reminder that Europe, for most of its history, has sent its migrants to all corners of the planet, doing much damage to indigenous populations.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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1/12 - In our book, The Mask, we show 58 striking images.
Remember those depictions of plague doctors wearing a beaked mask? Such visual elements were common in the 17th C and were always satirical.
Here is one by F. Bertelli, from Il Carnevale Italiano…1642 (The Met, NY).
tinyurl.com/uvzjs9py
Remember those depictions of plague doctors wearing a beaked mask? Such visual elements were common in the 17th C and were always satirical.
Here is one by F. Bertelli, from Il Carnevale Italiano…1642 (The Met, NY).
tinyurl.com/uvzjs9py
August 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
1/12 - In our book, The Mask, we show 58 striking images.
Remember those depictions of plague doctors wearing a beaked mask? Such visual elements were common in the 17th C and were always satirical.
Here is one by F. Bertelli, from Il Carnevale Italiano…1642 (The Met, NY).
tinyurl.com/uvzjs9py
Remember those depictions of plague doctors wearing a beaked mask? Such visual elements were common in the 17th C and were always satirical.
Here is one by F. Bertelli, from Il Carnevale Italiano…1642 (The Met, NY).
tinyurl.com/uvzjs9py
On the entangled history anti-mask and antiv-vacc:
yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/08/12/w...
yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/08/12/w...
“Worse Things Than Dying”: The Entangled History of the Anti-Mask and Anti-Vaccination Movements - Yale University Press
Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser— In May 2024 at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, DC, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., recalled that, during the pandemic, he was asked whether... READ MOR...
yalebooks.yale.edu
August 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
On the entangled history anti-mask and antiv-vacc:
yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/08/12/w...
yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/08/12/w...
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The final negotiation round for the Global Plastic Treaty Begins today. Check out our essays in The Lancet on how plastics became so central in healthcare and what cam be done to reduce their use.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#PlasticTreaty
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#PlasticTreaty
Plastics in health care: rethinking medical device innovation, use, and disposal for sustainability
Around the world, some 16 billion plastic syringes and 15 billion face masks are thrown
away each year.1,2 Unknown in the first half of the 20th century, the global production,
circulation, and dispos...
www.thelancet.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The final negotiation round for the Global Plastic Treaty Begins today. Check out our essays in The Lancet on how plastics became so central in healthcare and what cam be done to reduce their use.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#PlasticTreaty
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#PlasticTreaty
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Authors of The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air, Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser, on why a mask is never just a mask.
Opinion: A mask is never just a mask
Long before the pandemic, masks carried historical baggage and cultural meanings
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Authors of The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air, Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser, on why a mask is never just a mask.