Warwick Anderson
@wombatscholar.bsky.social
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Sorry to miss this on Nov 11 - past my bedtime
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Sorry to miss this on Nov 11 - past my bedtime
A very impressive and heavy award! Arrived in Sydney yesterday. Wombats a bit puzzled....
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
A very impressive and heavy award! Arrived in Sydney yesterday. Wombats a bit puzzled....
Honored to be awarded the 2025 Arthur J Viseltear Prize for lifetime achievement in public health history from @apha.org Sadly, wasn't in DC to receive it - worried about crossing the border. Sent a video acceptance!
#histmed #STS
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#histmed #STS
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November 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Honored to be awarded the 2025 Arthur J Viseltear Prize for lifetime achievement in public health history from @apha.org Sadly, wasn't in DC to receive it - worried about crossing the border. Sent a video acceptance!
#histmed #STS
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social
#histmed #STS
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social
If you want to understand the deeper pathology of Trump's AI-generated "poop video," I suggest you read Spectacles of Waste: www.wiley.com/en-ae/Specta...
October 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
If you want to understand the deeper pathology of Trump's AI-generated "poop video," I suggest you read Spectacles of Waste: www.wiley.com/en-ae/Specta...
Delighted that long-term research fellow in planetary health humanities at USyd, Dr James Dunk, is moving upwards to be director of the St James Institute, a humanities and policy institute associated with the Sydney Anglican Church.
#histmed #histstm @anzshm.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social
#histmed #histstm @anzshm.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Delighted that long-term research fellow in planetary health humanities at USyd, Dr James Dunk, is moving upwards to be director of the St James Institute, a humanities and policy institute associated with the Sydney Anglican Church.
#histmed #histstm @anzshm.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social
#histmed #histstm @anzshm.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social
My co-author Ian Mackay wryly predicted this award some 15 years ago, as we were writing Intolerant Bodies:
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October 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My co-author Ian Mackay wryly predicted this award some 15 years ago, as we were writing Intolerant Bodies:
press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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When Ian Mackay and I wrote our history of autoimmunity we focused on several diseases, but not ALS. If it were ever revised there would be so much more to include now!
October 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
When Ian Mackay and I wrote our history of autoimmunity we focused on several diseases, but not ALS. If it were ever revised there would be so much more to include now!
Our Lancet viewpoint, 'Bioethics for the Planet', seems ever more timely. Caring for humans and all life forms demands we care also for the planet. Viewable with registration
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
October 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Our Lancet viewpoint, 'Bioethics for the Planet', seems ever more timely. Caring for humans and all life forms demands we care also for the planet. Viewable with registration
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
Two ageing men sitting on the beach at Byron Bay, chatting about history and philosophy of biology, as one does. Paul Griffiths and me, photo Terese Hayward
September 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Two ageing men sitting on the beach at Byron Bay, chatting about history and philosophy of biology, as one does. Paul Griffiths and me, photo Terese Hayward
Lovely to have a Penn HSS reunion of sorts at EAHMH in Berlin last week, including @hanspols.bsky.social Jennifer Gunn and @eblucyclio.bsky.social Photo of me and Jennifer in a beer garden (of course) by Elizabeth:
September 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Lovely to have a Penn HSS reunion of sorts at EAHMH in Berlin last week, including @hanspols.bsky.social Jennifer Gunn and @eblucyclio.bsky.social Photo of me and Jennifer in a beer garden (of course) by Elizabeth:
These are trying times, so it's both a relief and a joy to engage intellectually with such brilliant scholars in Berlin, all of us trying to imagine a better world. www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
August 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are trying times, so it's both a relief and a joy to engage intellectually with such brilliant scholars in Berlin, all of us trying to imagine a better world. www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Our book on global histories of social medicine is available open access @universitypress.cambridge.org
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#histmed #socialmedicine #STS #histstm
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#histmed #socialmedicine #STS #histstm
August 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Our book on global histories of social medicine is available open access @universitypress.cambridge.org
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
#histmed #socialmedicine #STS #histstm
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
#histmed #socialmedicine #STS #histstm
Great conversations at the launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale in Berlin last night. @ctimmermann.bsky.social Sebastien Fonseca @doravargha.bsky.social Projit Mukharji Jeremy Greene me @ahlie.bsky.social
Projit gave a stirring speech....
Projit gave a stirring speech....
August 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Great conversations at the launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale in Berlin last night. @ctimmermann.bsky.social Sebastien Fonseca @doravargha.bsky.social Projit Mukharji Jeremy Greene me @ahlie.bsky.social
Projit gave a stirring speech....
Projit gave a stirring speech....
Pleased to see our viewpoint, 'Bioethics for the Planet', published in @thelancet.com yesterday, and featured online: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Medical ethics needs urgently to address global heating, the major threat to human health and the health of the planet
#bioethics #planetaryhealth
#bioethics #planetaryhealth
August 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Pleased to see our viewpoint, 'Bioethics for the Planet', published in @thelancet.com yesterday, and featured online: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Medical ethics needs urgently to address global heating, the major threat to human health and the health of the planet
#bioethics #planetaryhealth
#bioethics #planetaryhealth
The second volume of 'Dhoombak Goobgoowana', the Indigenous history of the University of Melbourne, subtitled 'Voice', now available entirely open access @mupublishing.bsky.social
At: www.mup.com.au/books/dhoomb...
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At: www.mup.com.au/books/dhoomb...
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The second volume of 'Dhoombak Goobgoowana', the Indigenous history of the University of Melbourne, subtitled 'Voice', now available entirely open access @mupublishing.bsky.social
At: www.mup.com.au/books/dhoomb...
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
At: www.mup.com.au/books/dhoomb...
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
Continues here:
August 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Continues here:
A note in the Monash Sustainable Development Institute newsletter drawing attention to our recent @thelancet.com article, Bioethics for the Planet:
#ethics #planetaryhealth
#ethics #planetaryhealth
August 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
A note in the Monash Sustainable Development Institute newsletter drawing attention to our recent @thelancet.com article, Bioethics for the Planet:
#ethics #planetaryhealth
#ethics #planetaryhealth
So glad to see this published in the latest @thelancet.com Trying to embed planetary care in human health care - making climate action less vulnerable to ideological delusions. Bioethics should be planetary health ethics too!
#bioethics #planetary #STS
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#bioethics #planetary #STS
@nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
So glad to see this published in the latest @thelancet.com Trying to embed planetary care in human health care - making climate action less vulnerable to ideological delusions. Bioethics should be planetary health ethics too!
#bioethics #planetary #STS
@nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social
#bioethics #planetary #STS
@nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social
Marilyn Lake delivers the next Hugh Anderson lecture at the RHSV in Melbourne Sept 9 at 5.30 pm. On Australian literary nationalism and links to China, featuring Hugh and Dawn, my parents. Dawn, now 96, usually says a few words. I'll be there too
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Marilyn Lake delivers the next Hugh Anderson lecture at the RHSV in Melbourne Sept 9 at 5.30 pm. On Australian literary nationalism and links to China, featuring Hugh and Dawn, my parents. Dawn, now 96, usually says a few words. I'll be there too
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
