Richard McKay
@ramckay.bsky.social
🇨🇦🇬🇧 Historian of Medicine and Public Health & Executive Coach (ICF PCC) | Author: Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic (@UChicagoPress.bsky.social, 2017) | Treasurer, SSHMedicine.bsky.social | Whippet afficionado
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Upcoming Public Webinar:
“Roy Porter Remembered”
Hosted by the Christ's College Medical Alumni Association
6-7 pm, Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Register for free at royporterccmaa.eventbrite.co.uk
“Roy Porter Remembered”
Hosted by the Christ's College Medical Alumni Association
6-7 pm, Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Register for free at royporterccmaa.eventbrite.co.uk
"The Greatest Medical Historian of his Generation" – Roy Porter Remembered
An online event reflecting on the life and legacy of medical historian Roy Porter, hosted by CCMAA and featuring Simon Schama and Bill Bynum
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October 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Upcoming Public Webinar:
“Roy Porter Remembered”
Hosted by the Christ's College Medical Alumni Association
6-7 pm, Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Register for free at royporterccmaa.eventbrite.co.uk
“Roy Porter Remembered”
Hosted by the Christ's College Medical Alumni Association
6-7 pm, Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Register for free at royporterccmaa.eventbrite.co.uk
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The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
SSHM 2026: In/Out
Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…
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October 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
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Did I mention this?
🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨
For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'
#histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃
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🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨
For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'
#histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃
sshm.org/sshm-agm/
SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025
Monday 6 October [Online] 4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time) As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…
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October 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Did I mention this?
🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨
For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'
#histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃
sshm.org/sshm-agm/
🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨
For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'
#histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃
sshm.org/sshm-agm/
Delighted to be invited to co-present today’s keynote to the 5th annual Rise Up conference, with Kevin Kareem Brooks, Leon “Struggle” Davis, and the voice of our team member Reginald T. Qualls. Our title was “Unearthing Carceral Sickness through the Power of Transformative History.” #RiseUp2025
September 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Delighted to be invited to co-present today’s keynote to the 5th annual Rise Up conference, with Kevin Kareem Brooks, Leon “Struggle” Davis, and the voice of our team member Reginald T. Qualls. Our title was “Unearthing Carceral Sickness through the Power of Transformative History.” #RiseUp2025
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📣Exciting News 📣
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
July 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📣Exciting News 📣
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners 📅
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
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Came home to the best gift ever - a copy of my new book, edited with @drkyliesmith.bsky.social. This book is the culmination of years of fantastic conversations with some brilliant scholars, and I'm so thrilled to finally hold it in my hands. I might be prouder of this than my actual monograph. 1/
July 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Came home to the best gift ever - a copy of my new book, edited with @drkyliesmith.bsky.social. This book is the culmination of years of fantastic conversations with some brilliant scholars, and I'm so thrilled to finally hold it in my hands. I might be prouder of this than my actual monograph. 1/
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Really happy to see that this special issue on transnational histories of HIV/AIDS activism is out in the world. Thanks so much to @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social for all their hard work bringing it together! #histmed [1/2]
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146
Project MUSE - Journal of the History of Sexuality-Volume 34, Number 2, May 2025
muse.jhu.edu
July 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Really happy to see that this special issue on transnational histories of HIV/AIDS activism is out in the world. Thanks so much to @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social for all their hard work bringing it together! #histmed [1/2]
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146
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✨Join the team ✨ The Society's peer reviewed journal Social History of Medicine published by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has a vacancy for a co-editor.
Deadline for applications 27 June 2025
Further details available at sshm.org/notices/
#histmed #skystorians
Deadline for applications 27 June 2025
Further details available at sshm.org/notices/
#histmed #skystorians
May 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
✨Join the team ✨ The Society's peer reviewed journal Social History of Medicine published by @oxfordacademic.bsky.social has a vacancy for a co-editor.
Deadline for applications 27 June 2025
Further details available at sshm.org/notices/
#histmed #skystorians
Deadline for applications 27 June 2025
Further details available at sshm.org/notices/
#histmed #skystorians
This week’s UK COVID-19 inquiry hearings are investigating the role of test, trace, and isolate - a vital public health practice for responding to infections like COVID-19.
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May 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This week’s UK COVID-19 inquiry hearings are investigating the role of test, trace, and isolate - a vital public health practice for responding to infections like COVID-19.
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Kudos to PfizerUK for working to raise awareness of the growing risks of antimicrobial resistance. They interviewed three older members of the public about their memories of a time before antibiotics. I was happy to help them draw the historical threads together.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qJi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qJi...
Before the Breakthrough: Memories from a Pre-antibiotic Era
YouTube video by PfizerUK
www.youtube.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kudos to PfizerUK for working to raise awareness of the growing risks of antimicrobial resistance. They interviewed three older members of the public about their memories of a time before antibiotics. I was happy to help them draw the historical threads together.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qJi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qJi...
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Job Klaxon: come and join us. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project on the history of intensive care medicine, directed by @fcondrau.bsky.social in Zurich and me in Manchester.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate - Life Support: Technologies, Institutions and Experiences in the History of Intensive Care Medicine, 1945-2020:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Job Klaxon: come and join us. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project on the history of intensive care medicine, directed by @fcondrau.bsky.social in Zurich and me in Manchester.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
“All five of Canada's living prime ministers released a letter Tuesday urging Canadians to fly their flags with pride, and their call seems to be working.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The Maple Leaf is turning 60, and Canadians are more proud than ever of the flag | CBC News
The Maple Leaf turns 60 years old on Saturday and, in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's continued jabs at Canada, the nation's flag and its special day are gaining more attention than usual.
www.cbc.ca
February 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“All five of Canada's living prime ministers released a letter Tuesday urging Canadians to fly their flags with pride, and their call seems to be working.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
www.statnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Epidemiologist and long-time health activist Gregg Gonsalves reminding us of the importance of (transnational) networking strategies for confronting science-denialist views
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
Opinion | I Shudder to Imagine Kennedy Running Our Health Agencies.
We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Epidemiologist and long-time health activist Gregg Gonsalves reminding us of the importance of (transnational) networking strategies for confronting science-denialist views
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
“An international guerilla archiving effort” 💪
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www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canadian residents are racing to save the data in Trump's crosshairs | CBC News
As U.S. President Donald Trump's administration removes access to government websites and databases with critical medical and environmental data used around the world, some Canadian residents are play...
www.cbc.ca
February 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
“An international guerilla archiving effort” 💪
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Oh heyyyy - you need a new book!!
I was just talking to an Honors student about ethics in the history of medicine and looked to see if we had a @hopkinspress.bsky.social preorder site for Do Less Harm yet and oh guess what? WE DO! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Do Less Harm
Offers reflections, provocative questions, and practical strategies for ethical, responsible approaches to health history.In Do Less Harm, editors Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith bring togethe...
www.press.jhu.edu
February 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Oh heyyyy - you need a new book!!
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Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment (Gift Article)
President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
This is deeply concerning: Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
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January 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is deeply concerning: Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Yay the cover is here! So thrilled I got to contribute a chapter to this volume and collaborate with a bunch of amazing scholars!
@cethompson.bsky.social and I are so excited to share the cover for our book Do Less Harm out soon with @hopkinspress.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yay the cover is here! So thrilled I got to contribute a chapter to this volume and collaborate with a bunch of amazing scholars!
I LOVE this cover - and the fact that I’ve been able to collaborate with such an amazing scholarly collective!
@cethompson.bsky.social and I are so excited to share the cover for our book Do Less Harm out soon with @hopkinspress.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I LOVE this cover - and the fact that I’ve been able to collaborate with such an amazing scholarly collective!
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Our latest blog piece is by SSHM members who attended the Reproductive Health Histories Working Group Hybrid Meeting in July 2024
An event supported by SSHM conference funding!
Deadline for the next round of conference funding is 1 March.
An event supported by SSHM conference funding!
Deadline for the next round of conference funding is 1 March.
CHSTM Reproductive Health Histories Hybrid Meeting
by Kate Errington, Birkbeck University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr Catherine Medici-Thiemann, University of Nebraska Medical Center; Dr Erin Spinney, University of Ne…
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December 21, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Our latest blog piece is by SSHM members who attended the Reproductive Health Histories Working Group Hybrid Meeting in July 2024
An event supported by SSHM conference funding!
Deadline for the next round of conference funding is 1 March.
An event supported by SSHM conference funding!
Deadline for the next round of conference funding is 1 March.
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If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives:
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
December 7, 2024 at 12:33 PM
If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives:
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
That feeling you get at the end of a long week? Enya and Zelda are with you.
December 6, 2024 at 8:31 PM
That feeling you get at the end of a long week? Enya and Zelda are with you.