Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal
Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal was founded in 2017 at Columbia University by Arden Hegele, a literary scholar, and Rishi Goyal, a physician. Our mission is to develop conversations about medical and humanistic ways of knowing
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CHiPH is part of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social and at the forefront of historical research into public health and health services https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-history-public-health
@jfballenger.bsky.social
History of medicine, health humanities, bioethics, critical dementia studies. Self, Senility and Alzheimer's in Modern America. http://bit.ly/3fVOrrU. Chilephile 🇨🇱, climate, cycling, Philly, board games, music, & sundry
@mervesen.bsky.social
phd candidate in comparative literature & visual studies at penn state // welcoming anything related the hospital in literature and visual culture // remain curious about temporality, sound and archives despite no direct occupation.
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Anthropologist @HealthXCross UniVE Microbes | environment | health | religion https://pric.unive.it/projects/healthxcross/home
@kacheston.bsky.social
Researching “the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century”. Infection-Associated Chronic Illness, activism, stigma, medical humanities. Postdoctoral fellow in Sociology.
@dremilyvincent.bsky.social
Research Fellow, English @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social. Deputy Assoc Director (Research) @cncsi.bsky.social Durham Uni. @GothicaUob.bsky.social. ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social. ‘Summoned to the Séance’ @britishlibrary.bsky.social👻
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Media and Epidemics (MEDEP): Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Project funded by EU CHANSE. https://mediaepidemics.com
@lisabortolotti.com
Philosopher (Birmingham/Ferrara). Founder of the Imperfect Cognitions blog and The Philosophy Garden. Editor of Philosophical Psychology.
@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.
@helengoodman.bsky.social
Researcher of 19th-century literature, culture, and medicine ∣ health humanities ∣ the body ∣ mental health ∣ history of emotions ∣ Also interested in #fibromyalgia #chronicpain #FND |she/her
@dismantlingcon.bsky.social
Account for the University of Worcester MA Humanities Dismantling Structures Conference on the 7th May 2025 💙 Visit our website for up-to-date information! https://t.co/808xJLtsPR
@maresamarangoni.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in History at University of Exeter. Public Health Scholar, Oral History and Microhistory, STS. Interested in discourse, narratives and cultural contexts.
@millarelaine.bsky.social
Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Professional work and research interests in ELT, ESP (Health Sciences), and language teacher education. Recent research explores corpus and cognitive linguistic approaches to language teaching. https://bit.ly/EM_RG_Profile
@drfijohnstone.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Visual Medical Humanities at Durham University. Views mine.
@danielpjones.bsky.social
Crip-queer disability scholar + creative practitioner | Tourette Syndrome, Creative Research Methods, Public Space (+ more) | Research Associate @sheffielduni.bsky.social | Leadership Team Member @ndhumanities.bsky.social www.danielpjones.com
@jfeyaerts.bsky.social
psychologist & philosopher, assistant prof. clinical psychology @GhentUniversity. Co-organizer of the Too Mad to be True conferences. Interests in psychosis, delusions, phenomenology, mad studies, altered self/reality-experiences.
@claudiacalhoon.bsky.social
Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC.
@fabioethics.bsky.social
associate professor of bioethics • immigration, public health ethics, crosswords • she/her • http://abortionpuzzles.com • views my own
@kingtekkers.bsky.social
Professor of Medical Humanities (historian of medicine and science) | ageing, germs, advertising, technology | sports, musics, runs, foods, gardens
@lucyburkemcr.bsky.social
Academic (literary & cultural disability studies/medical humanities), Green New Deal podcast https://www.gndmedia.co.uk Wellcome Trust Advisory Committee, UCU NEC, North Manchester & Kreiz Breizh.
@sophiefranklin.bsky.social
DOROTHY MSCA postdoc at UCD and University of Reading. 19th-century fiction, violence, health, contagion, afterlives. Associate Editor of Brontë Studies. Book on violence and the Brontës forthcoming with EUP. she/her.
@capcbristol.bsky.social
We are a leading centre for primary care research and teaching based at the University of Bristol, UK. We are one of nine centres that form the @nihrspcr.bsky.social. Visit: www.bristol.ac.uk/capc
@joelkrueger.com
Philosopher at the University of Exeter working in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and AI | joelkrueger.com
@kenziemintusphd.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Sociology at Indiana University Indianapolis (IU Indy). Associate Editor at #JGSS. Research interests include health, aging, and disability. #sociology #medsoc #gerontology
@bermorenop.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist working on geographical imaginations and histories of #chagas disease in the United States. PhD student @UC Berkeley/ UCSF [previously UoEdinburgh, UNAM] Ethnography of science, landscapes, and health.
@jamiesheard.bsky.social
PhD in nutrition and Parkinson’s disease; supporting the clinical trials industry as a freelance writer for over a decade; avid reader
@stephchung.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Maternal and Child Health at UNC Chapel Hill.
@drbevans.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography at Uni of Liverpool, research on chronic illness, energy limiting conditions, fat embodiment. Feminist, Fat Activist, Spoonie, PwME, Friend, Sister, Daughter, Person. Hobbies: SF, cats, knitting/crochet. she/her or they/their 🏳️⚧️
@annaovaska.bsky.social
narrative scholar | critical medical humanities, pain, disability, feminist/queer/crip theory & pedagogy, embodied cognition & phenomenology. Projects on narrative medicine & Reading Pain at Tampere Uni. Editor @netn.bsky.social
@hanblythe.bsky.social
Research Fellow at LSHTM, affiliated at Birkbeck. Health humanities and history of mental health, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
@neselsd.bsky.social
Rhymes w/ paper mâché 🍉 Psychedelic humanities: literature, ethics, harm reduction 🍄 Senior Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University 🌐 University Writing Program 📝 Indigenous/Kurdish 🟥☀🟩 ND (they/them) chemicalpoetics.substack.com
@riacheyne.bsky.social
Liverpool-based academic. Disability, medical humanities, genre fiction, neurodiversity, accessibility and inclusion in HE. #DisabilityStudies #MedHums Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
@arb0re1um.bsky.social
Health Psychology PhD-c @ChristUniversity. STS, (feminist) new materialisms, & women’s reproductive health in South India. I do: 🧗🏻♀️🏋🏻🦜
@oliviaglaze.bsky.social
contemporary portuguese literature, photography, & film 🇵🇹 empire | medical humanities | trauma | illness | disability | women’s writing AHRC postdoc | https://readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk Languages & Policy postdoc | MHRA & UCFL
@tashaalden.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction at @AberUni. Lit & philosophy/theology, esp. Iris Murdoch & M Robinson, language of fertility, queer historical fiction, MedHums. Schools / access. Buddhisty-Quaker. LWithTheT
@emtumilty.bsky.social
Kiwi Bioethicist living in Texas "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." (Davis)
@massaging-brains.bsky.social
That's my brain, sagittal view forward and reverse in pretty colors. *Neuroscience Research UCSD* Emotion, affect, brain-body, wellness, habit, wellness, psychedelics, aspiring scicomm writer & neuroscientist
@alphafold.bsky.social
Unofficial account exploring the intersection of biology, molecules, science, AI and protein folding with AlphaFold.
@disprecwork.bsky.social
Exploring the politics of disablement and precarious work (of all forms) under capitalism [ @cerasellachis.bsky.social ] disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | anti-disablement https://disprecwork.wordpress.com
@asle-us.bsky.social
ASLE is a dynamic environmental humanities community for those interested in the natural world, especially its meanings and representations in literature, art, language, and culture.
@nikzam.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher Faculty of Philology, School of Philosophy National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece 🇬🇷 an eco-/posthuman🍀🤖 #environmental humanities #posthumanities #comparative literature #digital humanities
@stevenrhue.bsky.social
M.A. M.P.H. | ABD Anthropology Writer | SYNAPSIS: A Health Humanities Journal Photographer | Sony A7 https://linktr.ee/Steven_Rhue
@soulinmedicine.bsky.social
Jonathan McFarland currently works as Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is the President of The Doctor as a Humanist. #MedSky
@ederummadum.bsky.social
Prof @ History UC Berkeley | Director CSTMS | Author of _How the Clinic Made Gender_ http://tinyurl.com/y49m84ja | Mostly tired | tweets my own | she/her/hers | My kid drew my profile picture
@drgavinmiller.bsky.social
Academic in medical humanities, science fiction, history of psy disciplines, and UFOs. English Literature, University of Glasgow. Blog www.ufos.ac.uk. Academic profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/gavinmiller/
@cobioethics.bsky.social
Supporting compassion, competence, respect, and justice in healthcare through bioethics and health humanities. linktr.ee/cobioethics http://www.coloradobioethics.org
@torchoxford.bsky.social
TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) is a hub for intellectual collaboration and cross-disciplinary research projects, and is part of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford.
@ethicselizabeth.bsky.social
Philosopher & Clinical Ethicist | she/her | peds ethics, repro ethics, TIC, narrative med, feminist philosophy | Cincinnati (it’s cool despite Ohio) | Thoughts my own unless I am re-posting yours | https://sites.google.com/view/elizabethlanphier