Harriet Cooper
Lecturer, UEA Medical School, #DisabilityStudies, #MedHums
Associate Editor, @bmj.com Medical Humanities journal
Research/writing on:
the figure of the disabled child, shame and stigma in health and illness, lived experience and memoir culture.
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- "When anti-stigma campaigns shift away from acting on the wider determinants of health [..] they tend to [..] reproduce inequalities." #RecalibratingStigma @oliwilliams.bsky.social @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social Tanisha Spratt @brisunipress.bsky.social
- In the first of our 'Recalibrating Stigma' mini-takeover, Oli Williams, Gareth M. Thomas, Amy Chandler, and Tanisha Spratt introduce the concept of anti-stigma. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/03/a...
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- "In many ways, UKVI and Home Office policy pushes universities towards the sorts of risk management practices that consumer law was designed to rule out. But [universities may also over-recruit] on terms that attempt to ensure they are protected, while students are not." wonkhe.com/blogs/visa-o...
- Reposted by Harriet Cooper10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
- "[Kafka's] parables [..] [ask] whether [..] we can still expect justice from the law, or whether legal process diverges so dramatically from the path of justice that we can only now tell stories about how the expectation of justice is vanquished by legal proceeding" www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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- Really like Christina's interrogation of the terms "town hall" and "circus" in this piece on listening exercises and the question of who is able to speak / who can be heard #DisabilityMatters
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- Such a cool CfP! #MedHums
- CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 @annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
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- I'm reading it too! It's so good. And there's a reading group on it coming up in September: www.feministduration.com
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- Reposted by Harriet CooperMassacre after massacre, day after day - the deliberate annihilation of an entire civilian population. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Harriet CooperJoin us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....
- Reposted by Harriet CooperBREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:
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- Delighted to be speaking at this symposium today, and to see my chapter for 'Recalibrating Stigma' in print!
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- Reposted by Harriet CooperWe started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection. It is available as a free e-book and in paperback: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
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