I get really angry when people use blatantly incorrect assertions about history to bully people.

Less blatantly incorrect assertions as bullying tool are also infuriating, but don't make my brain short out quite the same way.

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I recently read Emily Mayhew's Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I. It is awesome.

This is a book about logistics and practice - from a social history perspective! There's no emphasis on heroic feats of surgery or grand advances in technology. Instead it's a history of making a working community and a working medical ( Read more... )

One of the things that is making me happy every time I think about right now is that International Teacher's Day is celebrated on the same date as the traditional celebration of the Buddha's birthday.

This is so appropriate it makes me all warm and smiley inside.

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There is no feeling quite like the feeling when you realize that what you thought was going to be a social history of the Great Depression is actually an anti-regulation screed about how neither Hoover nor FDR trusted the markets enough.

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Yes, the regime = the country and polity.

Yes, by all means.

Yes.

Except wait no. It doesn't.

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Culture is also important. Those of us who teach and are reasonably accessible have office visits from Asian American students, particularly those in the sciences, to protest perfectly respectable grades. As one young Chinese American student - American-born of immigrant parents - explained to me after I told her why I would not change her B+ to at ( Read more... )

Had an appointment at the phlebotomy lab so they could get the samples they need to check that my liver is functioning correctly, and so are my kidneys, and so is my thyroid.

Hypodermic needles are so much less messy than cupping.

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"Did you know that brain surgery is older than farming?"

Under a photo of a trephined skull whose owner, yes, lived before the advent of agriculture as a human lifestyle choice and also apparently survived intervention, because the cut marks are healed.

Yeah, I'm doing departmental outreach this weekend.

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I finished reading Edward Shorter's A History of Psychiatry this morning.

...What. What. What even was that?

No, seriously. What?

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It's international book week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your post.

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