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Delighted that my paper with Céline Lefève and Patrick ffrench comparing the history of the medical humanities in the USA and France is now out and free to download here:
doi.org/10.1177/0952...
@frenchstudies.bsky.social @frculturalst.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social @bmj.com
doi.org/10.1177/0952...
@frenchstudies.bsky.social @frculturalst.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social @bmj.com
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October 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Delighted that my paper with Céline Lefève and Patrick ffrench comparing the history of the medical humanities in the USA and France is now out and free to download here:
doi.org/10.1177/0952...
@frenchstudies.bsky.social @frculturalst.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social @bmj.com
doi.org/10.1177/0952...
@frenchstudies.bsky.social @frculturalst.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social @bmj.com
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Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.
Tommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.
October 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.
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I’m talking about Don Trump, the New York cartoonist.
September 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I’m talking about Don Trump, the New York cartoonist.
I'm so grateful to Coline Garré of Le Quotidien du Médecin for this fab account (in French) of a seminar I was honoured to give at Institut la Personne en Médecine on how the isolation of the ill helps articulate the links between the medical humanities, psychology and epidemiology.
bit.ly/3TipqtQ
bit.ly/3TipqtQ
Ce que la maladie nous dit de notre rapport à l'autre
« À la suite d’un AVC, un de mes amis, journaliste, n’a plus pu parler ni écrire un anglais clair. Il a tout perdu : son emploi, son mariage, son logement. Tous ses amis l’ont abandonné. Paradoxalemen...
www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr
June 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I'm so grateful to Coline Garré of Le Quotidien du Médecin for this fab account (in French) of a seminar I was honoured to give at Institut la Personne en Médecine on how the isolation of the ill helps articulate the links between the medical humanities, psychology and epidemiology.
bit.ly/3TipqtQ
bit.ly/3TipqtQ
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Baroness Kidron in the House of Lords today:
"It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
"It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
June 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Baroness Kidron in the House of Lords today:
"It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
"It is extraordinary that the Government’s decided, immovable and strongly held position is that enforcing the law to prevent the theft of UK citizens’ property is unfair to the sector doing the stealing."
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Looking forward to the #NNMHR conference on ‘Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers’ beginning tomorrow. It’s a daunting honour to have been asked to give one of the keynotes. nnmh.org.uk/tongues/
May 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Looking forward to the #NNMHR conference on ‘Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers’ beginning tomorrow. It’s a daunting honour to have been asked to give one of the keynotes. nnmh.org.uk/tongues/
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Delighted that my article on "The Narrative-Based Medical Humanities 1980-1995" is available to download free of charge from the journal, History of the Human Sciences. It's available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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May 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Delighted that my article on "The Narrative-Based Medical Humanities 1980-1995" is available to download free of charge from the journal, History of the Human Sciences. It's available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Delighted that my article on "The Narrative-Based Medical Humanities 1980-1995" is available to download free of charge from the journal, History of the Human Sciences. It's available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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May 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Delighted that my article on "The Narrative-Based Medical Humanities 1980-1995" is available to download free of charge from the journal, History of the Human Sciences. It's available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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📗📚📖 Pleased to have signed, with Co-Editor Larry Duffy, the contract for our book ‘French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersections’, to appear in Liverpool UP’s Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series next year.
May 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
📗📚📖 Pleased to have signed, with Co-Editor Larry Duffy, the contract for our book ‘French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersections’, to appear in Liverpool UP’s Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series next year.
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One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.
May 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.
This is a really terrific piece.
Blogged: Labour's (partial) bias towards manufacturing industry reflects an outmoded view of the economy: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
Labour's manufacturing bias
Lots of you have pointed out the contrast between the government's keenness to support British Steel and its reluctance to help universities despite the fact that the latter have been cutting even mor...
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April 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is a really terrific piece.
I'm so delighted and thrilled by Jürgen Pieters' profound and perceptive review of my book (with Derek Bolton) Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment (Reaktion, 2024) in The Polyphony. You can read it here:
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/17/o...
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/17/o...
Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment Book Review
Jürgen Pieters reviews Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment by Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton (Reaktion, 2024).
thepolyphony.org
March 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm so delighted and thrilled by Jürgen Pieters' profound and perceptive review of my book (with Derek Bolton) Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment (Reaktion, 2024) in The Polyphony. You can read it here:
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/17/o...
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/17/o...
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it remains quite mad to me that this post was made over a decade ago - I remember seeing it at the time! - and it just got....pretty much everything about the online hellscape of 2020's right
March 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
it remains quite mad to me that this post was made over a decade ago - I remember seeing it at the time! - and it just got....pretty much everything about the online hellscape of 2020's right
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2025: Brexit party MEP in court for taking bribes from Russia
2019: Brexit party MEP Claire Fox dismisses criticisms of 'foreign agents of Putin'
Your reminder that Fox who campaigned to leave the EU because of unelected bureaucrats is now sat in the House of Lords as an unelected legislator 🤷♂️
2019: Brexit party MEP Claire Fox dismisses criticisms of 'foreign agents of Putin'
Your reminder that Fox who campaigned to leave the EU because of unelected bureaucrats is now sat in the House of Lords as an unelected legislator 🤷♂️
February 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
2025: Brexit party MEP in court for taking bribes from Russia
2019: Brexit party MEP Claire Fox dismisses criticisms of 'foreign agents of Putin'
Your reminder that Fox who campaigned to leave the EU because of unelected bureaucrats is now sat in the House of Lords as an unelected legislator 🤷♂️
2019: Brexit party MEP Claire Fox dismisses criticisms of 'foreign agents of Putin'
Your reminder that Fox who campaigned to leave the EU because of unelected bureaucrats is now sat in the House of Lords as an unelected legislator 🤷♂️
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Excellent post with hard numbers about migration. Share if you care about equipping people with a swift robust response to this nonsense.
I've now complained to @ipso.co.uk & expect in due course Telegraph will be forced to correct this BS.
They couldn’t even get London’s overall population right, let alone migration stats.
But what are the "right" numbers? [1/n]
They couldn’t even get London’s overall population right, let alone migration stats.
But what are the "right" numbers? [1/n]
January 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Excellent post with hard numbers about migration. Share if you care about equipping people with a swift robust response to this nonsense.
Delighted by this perceptive and very generous review of my book (with Derek Bolton), "Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment" in today's edition of @TheLancet. Read it here: bit.ly/4gKmDUg
The abandonment of the sick
The illness memoir is now a well-established literary genre. This phenomenon gives the subliminal impression that as a society, we are anxious to do away with taboos around sickness, and to support the sick. The truth, to our discredit, is that many people are keener on reading books about the illness of strangers than helping friends with major illness. The stigma of psychiatric illness is well-recognised, but that associated with physical illness much less so. In high-income countries, sick people and their families are in many respects socially isolated; even worse, society does not generally recognise this issue.
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January 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Delighted by this perceptive and very generous review of my book (with Derek Bolton), "Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment" in today's edition of @TheLancet. Read it here: bit.ly/4gKmDUg
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"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
December 19, 2024 at 9:25 PM
"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."