Can I use this opportunity to recommend a well-reviewed book on the history of our attempts to understand, explain, treat and prevent lung cancer?
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“What apple? In 1588 Violante Scaglione testified: ‘Adam’s apple was Eve’s butt, not the pit of the fruit that got stuck in his throat when he was called by God.’” —@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the real “forbidden fruit”
I have two spaces left on this month's workshop. Get in touch if you're interested!
I've also written about the links between open air treatments for patients and the wider leisure movement including hiking in this free Open Access book: www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/ima... 3/3
Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards.
For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship.
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I've written about multispecies encounters in these kinds of spaces in the early twentieth century here: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3... 2/3
I see that the book is currently available 50% off (& free UK shipping) from @yalebooks.bsky.social with code MAY26
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Arya Ray discusses new directions emerging from the one-day international workshop ‘The Senses and Medical Humanities,’ held at Durham University in February 2026.
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We're down to the last handful of tickets for my workshop on 'Medicine and the Senses' in Leeds on 10 July. Please share!
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My review of Evelyn Lord's 'The Great Plague: When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665' is now available to view on H-Net's H-Sci-Med-Tech: networks.h-net.org/group/review...
Despite having been the most common and deadly cancer of the twentieth century (first in the western world and later worldwide), lung cancer never attracte
historian at durham / writer and critic, mostly for the lrb and nyrb. i'm writing a history of the female body, out in june!
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Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such p...
The use of ‘open-air’ as a therapeutic agent in sanatoria, hospitals, and schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries led to the development of specific material features associated w...
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Arya Ray discusses new directions emerging from the one-day international workshop ‘The Senses and Medical Humanities,’ held at Durham University in February 2026.
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague’s e...
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Lord, Evelyn. The Great Plague: When Death Came to Cambridge in 1665. : Yale University Press, 2023. 208 pp. $22.00 (paper), ISBN 9780300270259. Reviewed by Claire Turner (Durham University) Published...
Lung cancer deaths trace the rise and fall of smoking—
Lung cancer kills more than two million people every year, making it the most fatal cancer globally.
While a number of factors increase the risk, the 20th century brought one like no other: smoking.
