📺 Encounter Health Scepticism and discover an installation of portrait photographs and video interviews with Brixton residents, along with documentary videos about urinary track infections. 🗓Until Saturday 21 January, 5.30pm 📍Science Gallery London

I wrote this on data and healthcare for The Conversation, from that 'deranged' darling of modern US medical history Ernest Codman to the rather disastrous healthcare forays of the all time winningest supercomputer on Jeopardy!, Watson. theconversation.com/from-a-derange…

We’re making another documentary! This time about people's experiences with hormonal birth control, specifically focusing on its relationship to mental health, and are looking for people to interview. If you are interested in taking part send an email to [email protected]

And, it’s important to note, we’re keen on exploring all sorts of experiences of hormonal birth control, both positive + negative

Speaking of The UTI Documentary, we won a prize 🏆 👏🏻🏅

Don't miss SHEtalk April 20 at 12: The art of the data-driven exposé: Archie Cochrane, Thomas McKeown and mid-20th century medical scepticism by Caitjan Gainty King's College London #medicinehistory #sustainable #education The Centre for Global Health med.uio.no/she/aktuelt/ar…

New from Caitjan Gainty Medical gaslighting: when conditions turn out not to be 'all in the mind' theconversation.com/medical-gaslig… via The Conversation

With Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster and Paul Addae, I've written this on Health Scepticism, which features work we did with Centric Community Research. Huge thanks to our collaborators in the Brixton community. https://www.healthyscepticism.comhttps://wellcomecollection.org/articles/ZWcdJxEAACgAVS_7

You can meet a few of our collaborators here: youtu.be/msJTnIfbtjU. And learn more about our project here: healthyscepticism.com

Pleased to see this published simultaneously The Conversation and @Smithsonian. smithsonianmag.com/history/what-n…

All thanks as usual to Clint Witchalls, editor extraordinaire! Those interested to know more might start with the scholars to whom this piece is most intellectually indebted: Susan Reverby (Examining Tuskegee, eg) or Harriet Washington (Medical Apartheid).

Apologies: messed up the link. The article is here: wellcomecollection.org/articles/ZWcdJ…

I’m in a few home birth Facebook groups (mostly for interest, I did not have a home birth) and someone’s asked about SIDS… Home births can be safe + wonderful, but the communities that can form around them…yikes

A twelve-month teaching post at KCL on the history of science and technology!

A little piece on the geopolitics of vaccine hesitancy to start the weekend off...on a slightly depressing note. theconversation.com/us-military-la… via The Conversation

Me, Rita Maria Conry, and Nicola Pardy (well, mainly them) have been making a film about hormonal birth control and mental health and the footage is just beautiful. Can’t wait to screen the rough cut in Edinburgh on Monday!

This an in-person event, but we will also live stream. To sign up for the live stream, see the instructions on the poster.

My book cover has arrived. I worry it might be better than the book. If this entices you to read it, here's a coupon for 30% off. E25CGNTY. dukeupress.edu/the-product-of…