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@caitjan.bsky.social
Historian of medicine at King’s College, London.
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@dukepress.bsky.social has made available the introduction to my book on the early 20th century efficiency movement and its inroads into medicine! assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
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OUT IN JUNE 2026 🗓️

‘Healthy Scepticism’ by @caitjan.bsky.social is the entertaining, enlightening and occasionally enraging account of controversy, complexity and conspiracy in the medical world, diagnosing both healthy and unhealthy doubt.

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October 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "The Product of Medicine" by Caitjan Gainty @caitjan.bsky.social , which answers the question: What does the surgeon’s table owe to the factory floor? #USHistory #Medicine
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April 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Check out our great new titles coming out this April, including "The Product of Medicine" by Caitjan Gainty @caitjan.bsky.social .
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April 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@dukepress.bsky.social has made available the introduction to my book on the early 20th century efficiency movement and its inroads into medicine! assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
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February 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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In "The Product of Medicine," @caitjan.bsky.social retells the story of US medical history through the lens of industrialization and the industrial logics that made American medicine modern. Read the intro for free on our website now. #USHistory #TechnologyStudies
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February 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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💻 The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine is now accepting applications for the Hans Rausing Scholarships, supporting postgraduate study in the history of science and technology.

🗓️ Deadlines: 14 and 15 April 2025

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Applications open for Hans Rausing Scholarships in History of Science and Technology
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM) is now accepting applications for the scholarships, supporting postgraduate study in the history of science and technology.
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January 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
After about a million years, my book will be out this April. www.dukeupress.edu/the-product-.... As an avid introvert and committed pessimist, I really wouldn't know how to talk it up. But I do like the cover very much. Look at it.
January 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Join us on 22 October for the Kass Lecture in the History of Medicine at King's College, London! Our speaker this year is the wonderful Beth Linker who will be talking about the 'Other Disabled President.' Tickets available at www.tickettailor.com/events/chost...
September 30, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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Biden has announced more funding for his "cancer moonshot" initiative. This is what @caitjan.bsky.social and I wrote about it two years ago and we haven't changed our minds
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Biden’s Plan to ‘End Cancer’ Borrows From an Old, Flawed Playbook
Opinion | The President’s new health research enterprise is eerily reminiscent of Richard Nixon’s ill-fated war on cancer.
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August 15, 2024 at 12:35 PM
With many thanks to our Centric Community Research and our collaborators in Brixton, some of whom you can find out more here, in a film made by Lucas Canino for our 'healthy scepticism' mini-exhibition at the Science Gallery London last year. youtu.be/msJTnIfbtjU
Health in Brixton | Vox Pops
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January 19, 2024 at 1:09 PM
I wrote with Agnes Arnold-Forster and Paul Addae on 'healthy scepticism' for Wellcome Stories. wellcomecollection.org/articles/ZWc....
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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January 19, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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If you have never heard of the Tuskegee syphilis study then this will shock you to the core- If you are aware already then the level of coverup and manipulation will sicken you. It’s legacy still reverberates today.
The US once withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men in the name of science. Newly pub...
The archival trove chronicles the extreme measures administrators took to ensure Black sharecroppers did not receive treatment for the venereal disease.
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January 15, 2024 at 8:00 AM