In 2023 I was invited to collaborate with @academic.oup.com on their Environmental History bibliography. My contribution 'Epidemics in Urban Environments in the 19th and 20th Centuries' has just been published: www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

@dittemunch.bsky.social was on the @universitypress.cambridge.org's podcast 'Hot off the Press' to talk about disgust and perpetrators. Listen through the link below and read more about Ditte's book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Public health advocates and scholars are often reluctant to accept how much disgust, pride, and other emotions (purity, eugenics, suicide) shape understanding of health.

My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB: dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....

"Too often #AMR is framed as an immense although conceptually simple challenge: delay resistance to current drugs and produce new drugs. But we need to go beyond this, we need to pull every lever at our disposal to minimise infection even before we turn to drugs." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Still time to listen in as @philippabarr.bsky.social & @dittemunch.bsky.social discuss disgust - its historical, moral, social manifestations and our reactions to it!

“While very hot regions may see transmission decline, cooler areas such as coastal and northern Australia could become more vulnerable,” writes Philippa Nicole Barr in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/reality-bites-why-global-dengue-epidemic-matters-australia

DISGUST ~ un- & dis-comforting, ingratiating its way into our senses ~ repugnant, offensive. Here, I have the absol pleasure of learning from world experts, Philippa Nicole Barr & Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic, on public health & warfare. LISTEN IN! cambridgeuniversitypress.podbean.com/e/hot-off-th...

🎧 Hot off the Press Is feeling disgusted an immediate effective response or something deeper? Sharon Crozier-De Rosa speaks to Philippa Barr and Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic about what disgust really is. Listen to the full episode now 🔗 https://cup.org/4lL3Iuc

New mix from @abulmogard.bsky.social. A quiet weave of inspirations, collaborators and deep atmosphere — from Meredith Monk to Félicia Atkinson and William Basinski. “An atmosphere you could inhabit.” Listen Now → bleep.com/bleep-mix-30...

‘Unlike other proteins, prions can gain the ability to replicate, causing damage as they spread; they can jump between bodies, and sometimes even between species.’ Stephen Buranyi on prions: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Had a great chat on ABC Drive about how #OneHealth is reshaping our view of pandemics. We discussed public health history, emotional responses like fear and blame, and why our institutions must evolve to reflect interdependencies. The 10-min interview starts ~1hr36 in: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

For infectious disease experts (& those who follow them), the Arizona plague death seems to have gotten notice in nearly every news outlet around the world by now. Most of it is repetitive & uninformative. This interview w/ plague expert David Wagner is not www.scientificamerican.com/article/pneu...

“Scientific collaboration on health threats offers a new pathway for regional influence” Read Philippa Nicole Barr in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/one-health-diplomacy-how-australia-can-lead-regional-disease-prevention

My particular niche of the merch stand at the @anzshm.bsky.social 2025 biennial conference. Running all week at the Sydney University New Law Building Annex - come say hi 👋

As discussions restart this week at the World Health Organization in Geneva on the #PandemicAgreement, we reflect on the process to date in a new analysis, "The Pandemic Treaty - a forensic review of process and pitfalls," just published in the journal Global Public Health. bit.ly/accordprocess

Pleased with this generous review of my book by Heather Battles @anthroetc.bsky.social in Medical History: "Barr’s historical work can thus contribute to wider inter-and trans-disciplinary conversations about the design and implementation of public health responses" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sumera is such a wonderful composer. I was listening to the Paavo Järvi recording of his first three symphonies today and it's incredible stuff, especially the second.

Sumera Is extraordinary, simple yet beautiful, I can't turn it off

Launch it!!

Emotions and Society has just published a review of my book 'Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague' and recommends it for students from high school to postgrad. Read it here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #EmoSoc @jonathangheaney.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social

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Charmaine Robson @charmr.bsky.social reviews 'Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague', by Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1031...

ANZSHM's next conference will be held in Sydney, 8-12 July 2025, with the theme ‘Health History in the Making’ 🍎 CFPs are due 28 February & we have a range of bursaries for ECR colleagues! Check out our conference website here: www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

The 1st review of my book in Spanish has been published. For Marco Agustoni, the book examines how the plasticity of emotions, particularly disgust, can be modified by changing medical knowledge dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/arti... a través de @dialnet.bsky.social

Very pleased with this book review by the esteemed Peter Hobbins: "As an entrée to the affective impact of disease in the Australian historical context, it has much to recommend it". @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just published, my author chat with @amigrationhn.bsky.social - on the importance of emotion and identity to the practice of public health in turn of the century Sydney and the importance of investment in translation and language in Australian history amigrationhn.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/a...

Happy new year BlueSkylarks! Happy to share that my research has been profiled in an excellent interview with the ANU Reporter looking at the relevance for historical studies of pandemics for understanding future global health risks: reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...

Another review of my book by Charmaine Robson for @ahsjournal.bsky.social - "Barr demonstrates that...uncertainty opened a space for emotions to prevail. Today, in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, this argument will resonate with readers". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A wonderful review of my book from Derek Gatherer at Lancaster University for @TheBSLS - Gatherer reflects on the argument regarding the education of emotion and disease in light of his own education in evolutionary biology: www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/12/barr...

An interesting interpretation of my book by Kristen Foley for Emotions: History, Culture, Society. "Barr’s book is relevant to readers across broad fields including political science, public health and the broader scope of humanities..." brill.com/view/journal...

A wonderful review of my book from Derek Gatherer at Lancaster University for @TheBSLS - Gatherer reflects on the argument regarding the education of emotion and disease in light of his own education in evolutionary biology: www.bsls.ac.uk/2024/12/barr...

“5 Years on from COVID-19: lessons from past health crises and the future of global health” - our panel discussion from September is now online. @philippabarr.bsky.social @eddieholmes.bsky.social @janewilliams141.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/319322/episo...

Looking forward to reading this, now available at CUP. @philippabarr.bsky.social was a helpful interlocutor when I was writing Spectacles of Waste #histSTM www.cambridge.org/core/element...