internet – Mistaking histories

Bad History, internet, outreach, pregnancy, teaching

Getting the story out

August 28, 2023August 25, 2023 fluff35

Over the past few days I've been linking to some short pieces I have written for The Conversation UK. I'm a fan of this platform, and not just because of the extraordinary number of 'reads' one gets - although those are impressive. Of course, these are really hits rather than reads, and many who click… Continue reading Getting the story out

Bad History, dissection, Hippocrates, internet, Wikipedia

Not-so-Great Courses

March 12, 2021 fluff35

One of the Google alerts I have to notify me of anything new in my various fields of interest is on the word "Hippocrates". On 5 March 2021 it came up with a link to a page called 'The Foundations of Modern Medicine', which appears to be a short summary of a section of a… Continue reading Not-so-Great Courses

Bad History, cancer, diseases, Hippocrates, internet, remedies

The history of cancer: Part 1

November 27, 2020 fluff35

Why do we want a disease to have a history?

Bad History, hysteria, internet, teaching

Still harping on about hysteria… or, how long it takes to challenge a good myth

October 6, 2020January 8, 2023 fluff35

I started writing about hysteria in the mid-1980s. But I'm still needing to tell the story!

Bad History, doctors, gender, internet, midwives, museums and collections

Exhibiting our past: “This Vexed Question”

September 28, 2018 fluff35

There's been a lot of interest online in a temporary exhibition which has recently opened at the Royal College of Physicians in London: "This Vexed Question: 500 years of women in medicine". I was disturbed by some of the media reports, in particular one in Culture Trip which started with the comment that the RCP was 'dissecting… Continue reading Exhibiting our past: “This Vexed Question”