Fresh off the presses from the Fashionable Diseases team - our 4th publication! : Framing Fashionable Diseases muse.jhu.edu/issue/37731
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Woo Hoo! Check out the latest Fashionable Diseases project publication - a special edition of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies on Fashion and Illness onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je (be warned it goes well into in the C19th too!)
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Hot off the presses - our latest Fash Diseases project publication edited by Allan and Leigh! palgrave.com/gb/book/978113 Enjoy!
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Our special ed. on reading as a cause of hysteria, madness, VD, etc is out now. muse.jhu.edu/issue/35788 @lit_and_med #histmed
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Ooh! "Pathological Reading" muse.jhu.edu/issue/35788 New special issue of Literature & Medicine from ed & O’Connell
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We've just published a whole edition of Lit&Medicine on reading books causing disease. muse.jhu.edu/issue/35788
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Looking forward to the Fashionable Diseases event in Oxford on Thursday.
st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/events/e
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Free app allows the world to virtually investigate Scotland’s grisly medical history
bit.ly/1sqJGLB
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Mandrake, mesmerism and horoscopes - the unusual medical practice of Dr Ebenezer Sibly, physician and occultist 1793
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One of images J. Kennaway was talking about - Saltpetriere patient with reflex response to tuning fork #emomusicmed
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Kennaway: lots of ex's of women in 18/19C suffering cataleptic seizures b/c of music stimulation. So much on gender here! #emomusicmed
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I had a great time talking about Fashionable Diseases in Ioannina, Greece. Check out the poster by Aris Sarafianos
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Don't forget that are hosting the team next week. All are welcome!
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On 2nd June, will be hosting the team for a seminar . All welcome!
diseasesofmodernlife.org/2016/04/29/fas
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On 2 June in #Oxford we're welcoming the team to to talk gout, hysteria, & hypochondria diseasesofmodernlife.org/2016/04/29/fas
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I'll be talking about music, fashionable diseases, mesmerism, and the occult at the Horse Hospital on 15 May - facebook.com/events/5574780
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Registration now open for Medicine & Modernity, Sept. 2016, in Oxford, w/ keynotes from Laura Otis and Chris Hamlin: diseasesofmodernlife.org/conference-201
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Penny dreadfuls: the Victorian equivalent of video games
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Experiments in vapour-bathing and its impact on a 'deranged constitution',fits and paralysis bit.ly/24ikK9V
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Our salon now sold out, but will be filmed! May 15 Anatomical Venus symposium as substitute? More: morbidanatomy.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/new-mo
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We are hosting the team for a seminar on 2 June, 4-6.30pm at St Anne's College. All details at diseasesofmodernlife.org/category/event
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Fashionable Diseases' Jonathan Andrews on Bedlam on In Our Time - now available -
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Fashionable Diseases' Jonathan Andrews will be talking about Bedlam on the BBC's In Our Time on Thursday.
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Can reading books make you mad or ill? Found out tonight at James Kennaway's talk at the Wellcome Library in London wellcomecollection.org/events/can-rea
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Upcoming talk on reading as a cause of fashionable disease - London, 9 March wellcomecollection.org/events/can-rea
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Yes! We're kicking off this term with germs from and revolution from . Everyone should come!
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Date for the diary! Fri 29 Jan: . Looking forward to papers from & .
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'Fashion: Dedicated To All The Town'. A set of images via the BL. #Friday #Fashionhistory ow.ly/UV1hj
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