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HealthCulture

  1. Mad Men: The Other Woman bit.ly/JQULr5 @BitchMedia Women navigate both acceptance of & pushback vs treatment as institutional chattel
  2. @FearLoathingBTX That song was admittedly a bit punk when Ramones did it, but basically it's a Beach Boys rip off. Thanks 4 the memories :-)
  3. @FearLoathingBTX TY. I'd never seen the video. (1 of my family's nicknames 4 me is "punk rocker.")Sentiment appropriate 4 so much these days
  4. Making sense of past emotions: a view from Denmark bit.ly/KLpABn @emotionshistory How can we work with historical sources?
  5. Le mythe du gourou, de l’expert et du specialist bit.ly/JJfns3 L’expert n’a aucune idée de l’étendue de son ignorance
  6. Documentary of ‘The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better for Everone’ bit.ly/MZKFYX You can support project by pre-purchasing a copy
  7. This week’s Too Much @Too_Much_Online An online weekly on excess & inequaltiy
  8. The Consequences of Motherhood: ‘Making Babies,’ by Anne Enright nyti.ms/K16BEI @NYT A memoir. Motherhood as essentially absurdity
  9. US day care/early childhood education is so poor experts actually consider it harmful to kids who “endure” it nyti.ms/JGUFJe @NYT
  10. Culture of work as much as culture of motherhood must change for women’s movement to “bear full fruit” nyti.ms/JGUFJe @NYT
  11. Family Way: ‘The Conflict’ & ‘The New Feminist Agenda’ nyti.ms/JGUFJe @NYT Why French motherhood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
  12. Santéisme : épistémologie bit.ly/LvfZw3 @pierre_fraser The knowledge base of our bodies leaves us exiles from the body itself
  13. How I Became a Historian of Psychiatry: Gerald Grob bit.ly/JGqCg3 via h-madness How personal beliefs shape one’s scholarly work
  14. @murzee Wow is right @medskep Yes, economic implications wld be wrenching. Note this was not published in some quack journal
  15. @medskep TY, will do. What do U think of bit.ly/KhHX0P & bloom.bg/KHjrYB ? Seems potentially signif but don’t see much coverage
  16. @BarbaraHRoberts Current controversy abt statins 4 primary prevention is part of same “sea change” on excessive screening, don’t you think?
  17. @HeartSisters Almost can't believe this is happening:Too good to be true. But when convincing evidence accumulates change really is possible
  18. Brawley book skewers ‘gluttony’ of over-diagnosis, treatment bit.ly/Kc9D88 How We Do Harm:A Dr Breaks Ranks abt Being Sick in America
  19. Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey predicts end near on #evolution debate wapo.st/LoX4q1 Accepting past in order to respond to future
  20. Santé totalitaire (3) bit.ly/JDAeYN @pierre_fraser La connaissance tragique du non-sens de la souffrance