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
@sarialtschuler.bsky.social
Associate Prof., Director of Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern. Author: The Medical Imagination (Penn Press, 2018). Coeditor: Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU Press, 2023). All opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer.
@evemakoff.bsky.social
Mother, Physician, Palliative and Complex Care Provider, Narrative Medicine facilitator, Writer, #Med humanities #Social Justice #End-of-life care. Co-editor Narrative Medicine Guidebook, pub late 2025. Regional Medical Director PACE.
@columbiaethics.bsky.social
The Division of Ethics at Columbia University is a multidisciplinary unit that focuses on conceptual, empirical, and policy-related bioethics research https://linktr.ee/columbiaethics
@oralhistorycu.bsky.social
OHAC responsibly stewards 70 years of oral history interviews. Our collections document the human experience and makes interviews available to researchers. header: Stephanie Dinkins, Secret Garden (2021)
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@readingbodies.bsky.social
Multilingual research network connecting Medical Humanities research across different languages and cultures 🌏 💊💬 Led by @katharinemurphy.bsky.social & @oliviaglaze.bsky.social Connected to the AHRC-funded project https://readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk
@medempathy.bsky.social
Bridging healthcare, research, narrative, social justice & technology
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
Created by @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to be the world's foremost neuroscience institute, we are deciphering the brain — how it develops, works, endures and recovers.
@narrativemedicine.bsky.social
The Program of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University is the leader in narrative best practices and team-based healthcare #narrativemedicine Website: https://www.mhe.cuimc.columbia.edu/division-narrative-medicine
@hematopolitics.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary AHRC-funded project at the University of Leeds exploring blood symbolism, social relationships and boundary-making in blood banking. Account run by @claireturner.bsky.social
@lotus2477.bsky.social
Pediatric Neuroradiologist, MedEd, MedHumanities, Writer🤔. She/her.
@lolaruizberdun.bsky.social
Professor in #Histmed #Histsci 🧪at @uahes.bsky.social; I research in History of Midwifery and Birth; President of LVCINA, Spanish Society of History of Birth and Secretary of Spanish Society of History of Sciences. Member of @eurohealthhist.bsky.social
@rohandroy.bsky.social
Historian: South Asia, colonialism, science, insects. Associate Professor: University of Reading. Author: 'Malarial Subjects' (Cambridge,2017);Editor: Locating the Medical (Oxford, 2018). Words: ConversationUK; The Independent
@terezahendl.bsky.social
Philosopher / global (health) justice, East-West inequalities and hierarchies of knowledge / anticolonial & CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
@sscipchildhood.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary society promoting all aspects of the study of childhood in the past ➡️ https://sscip.org.uk 📝Submit to our associated peer-reviewed journal https://sscip.org.uk/journal/
@annanelson95.bsky.social
Fringe Festivals and Health Law. 📚 Interests: childbirth, doulas, birthing/maternity care, obstetric violence, ectogestation, and gendered experiences of healthcare & consent. Research Associate: ConnecteDNA, University of Manchester. She / her. 🏳️🌈
@thelakshmik.bsky.social
Doctor, Writer @Georgetown | Director @GUMedHum | @NEHgov Fellow ✍🏽 Book on Diagnosis & Detection | 🐦 #histmed #medhum #healthequity http://www.lakshmi-krishnan.com
@kleiosgirl.bsky.social
You do not need to follow back. No hurt feelings. I do not care about follower counts. She/they. ABD in US History. Disabled, ace, nb. Senior Tumblr user. Algorithms are weird. Looking for community. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@melodioustear.bsky.social
she/her. disabled, audhd & queer, perpetually low on spell slots. PhD @ university of kent, researching embodied Madness in interactive media through a Mad/crip/disability studies focus within the health humanities. aka rebecca milton
@drclaireocall.bsky.social
Writer. Literary & cultural historian. Expert: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters. 📖EMILY BRONTË REAPPRAISED 👩🏼💻Editor @brontestudies ✨🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
@drreznicek.bsky.social
Health Humanities at University of Minnesota, Health, Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in 18th/19thC British and Irish literature. Must love dogs. https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/matthew-reznicek
@travisclau.bsky.social
(he/him/his) Assistant Professor + Poet @ Kenyon: c18/c19 British Literature/History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)/Health Humanities/Disability Studies travisclau.com
@marieallitt.bsky.social
Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker. Medical Humanities. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces. she/her. Views own *Medical Caregiving Narratives of the FWW: Geographies of Care* out now
@rebeccawynter.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Health Humanities @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Mental Health Humanities, Institute for Mental Health, UoBirmingham. Exec Committee @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian #HistPsych #HistMed #HistSTM #Cats
@healtharts.bsky.social
HARC is a group of learners, researchers and collaborators dedicated to reviving health in northern BC through anti-colonial, community-informed, social sciences and humanities-based approaches. https://healtharts.ca/ https://healhealthcare.ca
@uclhhcentre.bsky.social
The UCL Health Humanities Centre draws together staff from different disciplines and departments engaged in teaching and research on matters relating to health, illness and well-being. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/health-humanities-centre
@healthhumslboro.bsky.social
Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary research group in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. Posts by @hannahpalmer
@hhrjournal.bsky.social
A peer reviewed open access journal promoting global health equity and the right to health. Published by the FXB Center, Harvard University, and the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University.
@publichealthhist.bsky.social
Exploring how societies around the world have addressed public health issues throughout history. PHH is a collaborative project compiled by Dr Albie Sharpe, School of Public Health@UTS.
@tuhealthjustice.bsky.social
Center for Health Justice and Bioethics is part of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.
@mhhjcenter.bsky.social
Our vision is informed by our belief in the humanities’ ability to improve people’s lives, improve healthcare training, and health outcomes. #educationalresearchcenter www.mhhj.org
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology | Director Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social Visit our website: https://ihpst.utoronto.ca/
@oxmedhum.bsky.social
Research hub @TorchOxford, Uni of Oxford We examine medicine and health from the perspectives of politics, philosophy, law, and history, among others. Follow for updates on our work and events. https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-humanities-research-h
@durhamimh.bsky.social
Improving health by understanding hidden experience. Supported by Wellcome. durham.ac.uk/imh medhumsplatform.org
@slobogin.bsky.social
Art historian of medicine Assistant Professor, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ University of Rochester (Joint Appointment in Art & Art History) plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host she / her
@the-polyphony.bsky.social
To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome. https://thepolyphony.org/
@literarti.bsky.social
Director of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities and Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Working on voice-hearing, psychosis, narrative, interdisciplinarity / Starting work on postpartum psychosis
@thebusyowl.bsky.social
Philosopher of Science/Psychiatry, Bioethicist, Cat Lady, Aegean. Prof. at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. Lover of the Great Lakes. website: https://www.serifetekin.org/
@desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Radical Humanities, Medical Humanities, Urban Studies, Science & Tech Studies - https://linktr.ee/des_fitzgerald
@bendoyle.bsky.social
Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
@nachemotion.bsky.social
The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) 🌎 Promoting and organizing publications, colloquia, conferences, & more! https://nachemotion.wordpress.com
@bharchives.bsky.social
Explore nearly 900 years of history through the archives and objects cared for by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. Part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Find out more at www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health-archives
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@surgeonshall.bsky.social
Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world. Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.
@lshtm.bsky.social
News and expert comment from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Celebrating 125 years as one of the world's leading #PublicHealth universities. https://linktr.ee/lshtm
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social
The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. Celebrating our centennial, 1925-2025! #histmed
@jhievents.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto | 2024-25 Theme: "Undergrounds/Underworlds". For info about Fellowships, funding opportunities, events and more, sign up for our newsletter http://eepurl.com/dhuDJv
@socmederc.bsky.social
ERC research project at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, global health history, #histmed #histsci #sts https://socialistmedicine.com/
@medicinered.bsky.social
Red Medicine is a podcast about politics, health, medicine, the body, illness, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, social reproduction, disability, prison, policing, abolition, gender, sexuality, pharmaceuticals, and much more. https://linktr.ee/redmedicine.xyz