Flurin Condrau
- Reposted by Flurin CondrauOne week left to enter @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6 Deadline: Sunday 1 February #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
- Reposted by Flurin CondrauHi @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social CFP for @eurohealthhist.bsky.social session at European Association for Urban History conf in Barcelona (2-5 Sept 2026). Urban Healthcare Architecture: Networks and Exchanges in 20th Century www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session83 deadline: 22 Oct 2025).
- A weird German word in academic circles is Selbstzahler. When conferences organise dinners (or drinks) but expect you to pay your own way. But then again, I remember a wedding do in the UK with a cash bar. The same idea, different context.
- #Gesundheitswesen #Gesundheitskosten #Schweiz Tolles Interview mit Andreas Kistler zu Gesundheitskosten. Marktwirtschaftliche Organisation ohne Regulierung (und Koordination) versagt. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/krankenkasse...
- #histmed reviewer 3: "Just a historical paper with limited scientific value" - and how is your Monday going?
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- Switzerland raises, on average, 25% import duties on agricultural products. For cheese, meat & vegetables often in excess of 100%. Consumers pay this, and popular votes regularly confirm the pillars of protectionist policies. Info from here (in German): www.avenir-suisse.ch/blog-zollfes...
- Great opinion piece in the @mtlgazette.bsky.social on recent court decisions regarding Canadian pro hockey players. www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...
- Reposted by Flurin CondrauOpen position⚠️ Come join us in Zurich as a pre-doc/research assistant in a diverse team working on a number of research projects on public finance, political economy and social wellbeing in Tanzania, DRC, Ecuador and Chile. Applications here: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/pre-...
- So proud of the Swiss women‘s team tonight at the #euro2025 - fighting quality until the end.
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- Letzter Aufruf: Ich suche zur Verstärkung unseres Teams in Zürich Doktorand:in in Medizingeschichte - I look for one doctoral student for medical history to join us in Zurich. Deadline 30.6.2025. Details: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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- "The Mask" by @brunostrasser.bsky.social and #thomasschlich is out today. I have listened to talks and seen some papers and cannot wait to read this.
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- What a fabulous gem if an essay on AI and education. big question remains: what is there to do apart frm more face-to-face interaction?
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- Announcing our "Historicizing Farm Animals" conference keynote lecture by @hannahlandecker.bsky.social 11 June 2025, 6.30pm local time - join us on Zoom or in person in Zurich. #histmed #onehealth
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- Application for my ETA to travel to the UK: "Because you live in Switzerland you have to pay in Euros." I don't know why but this strikes me as funny.
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- Well written and troublesome at the same time: "Taking over the past is a point of no return. It's not that we can't get back to who we once were. It's that we won't even remember it." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... #histmed
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- Reposted by Flurin Condrau🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...
- Visiting la pendenta in Disentis/Mustér over the weekend. quite impressive!
- Reposted by Flurin CondrauJob Klaxon: come and join us. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project on the history of intensive care medicine, directed by @fcondrau.bsky.social in Zurich and me in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Reposted by Flurin CondrauWe are delighted to share that the latest issue of our journal, Health & History, is now online and in print: Special issue - "Reproductive Health and Women's Rights in Contemporary History" Congratulations to special editors Gayle and Linda and all the contributors 🎉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54314
- Well worth a read in these trying times. academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
- Just looking over my slides for a history of infectious diseases class for medical students. In an era when vitamins are recommended for measles, TB and HIV services cut back in high-burden countries, and the WHO weakened through now fault of its own, I must admit I struggle a bit. #histmed
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- Reposted by Flurin CondrauThis is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.
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- Reposted by Flurin CondrauDream postdoc for #histmed folks 👇👇👇
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- If you are in the neighbourhood, please come around for my talk about #histmed before and after #covid on 6 Dec, 6pm local time at #sciencegallerybengaluru. sci560.scigalleryblr.org/programmes?
- #planetaryhealth #planetroast meeting in Bengaluru going well except for the weather. Lots of fun to meet interesting people from #iisc and #makerere university, facilitated by the excellent people of #swissnex. Tomorrow's session on #amr should be interesting, let's see whether I can sell #histmed
- Getting ready to travel: Trialogue Days in Bengaluru as a member of my university's delegation. Meeting colleagues from #IISC India and #Makerere Uganda to discuss, debate and think about #planetaryhealth and #planetroast. swissnex.org/india/event/...
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- Check this out. Skircle is a funny way to illustrate this new place here. #histmed
- RIP Bill Luckin (1943-2024). Historian of urban health, later accidents. He was also a long-serving editor #socialhistoryofmedicine published by @sshmedicine.bsky.social - a great mentor and a friend: billluckin.muchloved.com
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- Service announcement to people interesting in #histmed and #histstm: My friend and colleague @brunostrasser.bsky.social has just joined us here. He is doing super interesting work on medical masks and is generally well worth a follow.
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- Superb teaching experience this morning using @ederummadum.bsky.social wonderful book intro as base text to discuss medical concepts of gender. #histmed
