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Jonathan D. Riddle
@jonathandriddle.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and religion | Health humanities coordinator | Notre Dame PhD | Same handle everywhere

Book mss: The Gospel of Health: How Science, Religion, and Capitalism Shaped Wellness in America
Natalia is as smart, compelling, and kind in person as she seems in her public work.

I highly recommended reading *Fit Nation* and inviting her to your campus!

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Fit Nation
How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit Nation explains how we got here and imagines how we might create a more inclusive, stronger future. If...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This is more than I expected!

Now we need a post about how subfields use the same design language and fonts (especially Civil War studies). I'm assuming that's intentional by presses?
August 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Something akin to the way Emily K. Abel's article on the Gillespies reveals so much about women and caregiving in the home in the nineteenth-century US. It's great and teachable.
July 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I'm so sorry to hear this. How terribly cruel.
July 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Even better, it's part of a cluster hire.
June 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Understood! Thanks again for the recommendation.
June 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I just ordered it! I've previously assigned Washington's *Medical Apartheid* for this perspective. How do you think they compare?
June 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I'm currently spamming my ILL librarian. Thank you!
June 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM