Violet Affleck’s impassioned call at #UNGA80 for masking and clean #indoorair is the latest episode in the long —and always controversial— history of masks. To explore the earlier chapters and better understand what’s happening today, check out our book! tinyurl.com/579pz264

Book launch with a most interesting panel. Looking forward to the discussions.

📣5 five-year postdoc positions at University of Edinburgh check out 🧵below for more details about each post 👇 #histmed

Projit Mukharji opens his lecture at #EAHMH25 with the following point: 1/3 of all human beings live either in China or India. Yet, most scholarship in #histmed is about Western biomedicine. @eahmh.bsky.social

Congratulations to Heidi Hausse! #eahmh25 @manchesterup.bsky.social

Fascinating talk by Laura Smith on J. Marion Sims and the mechanisms by which he “whitewashed” the Black enslaved patients he experimented on in his medical publications #EAHMH25

#EAHMH25 Fascinating ongoing Lunch Roundtable around Bruno Strasser and Thomas Schlich’s book Making the Medical Mask: a History of Breathing Bad Air

@brunostrasser.bsky.social presents his book "The Mask" written with Thomas Schlich, a book that tells the story till the 1970s. Published by @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social #nocovid #eahmh25

The Mask is discussed by David Gentilcore, Christoph Gradmann, @ahlie.bsky.social and @luchen.bsky.social #eahmh25 #histmed

While immigrants are being demonised and dehumanised in most European countries, here is a reminder that Europe, for most of its history, has sent its migrants to all corners of the planet, doing much damage to indigenous populations. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1/12 - In our book, The Mask, we show 58 striking images. Remember those depictions of plague doctors wearing a beaked mask? Such visual elements were common in the 17th C and were always satirical. Here is one by F. Bertelli, from Il Carnevale Italiano…1642 (The Met, NY). tinyurl.com/uvzjs9py

On the entangled history anti-mask and antiv-vacc: yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/08/12/w...

The final negotiation round for the Global Plastic Treaty Begins today. Check out our essays in The Lancet on how plastics became so central in healthcare and what cam be done to reduce their use. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #PlasticTreaty

Authors of The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air, Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser, on why a mask is never just a mask.