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The Serpent Rising (1988)
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Alli Parker @alliparkerwriter.bsky.social author of at the foot of the cherry tree
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Jo Case @jocaseau.bsky.social Professional book nerd (writer, editor, critic - former publisher, bookseller). Deputy Editor, Books & Ideas, The Conversation: @aunz.theconversation.com. Co-editor, Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Autistic Writers (UQP).
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Dr Helen Edwards, Psych PhD, Australian Author & Speaker @drhelenedwards.bsky.social Award-winning Australian Author on Kaurna Land.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
Jade Shepherd @jadevshepherd.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain; PhD; writing a book about mentally ill offenders & their families in the c19th; former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University
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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
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Jonathan Sadowsky @jonathansadowsky.bsky.social Historian. Concise. - A Ana Antic @anaantic.bsky.social Social and cultural historian of psychiatry/Centre for Culture and the Mind
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Erika Dyck @erikadyck.bsky.social Historian of health & social justice. Mostly psychedelics, madness, eugenics and birth control; essentially I enjoy studying who gets to make the rules and why we let them.
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social Historian of sometimes medicine, sometimes psychiatry | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow | Writes about long illness, mental ill health and pain | Lover of old 📚 , moderately strong ☕️ and reality 📺
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Rob Ellis @re-histories.bsky.social Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
David Freis @davidfreis.eurosky.social Medical historian at the University of Augsburg | Writes about psychiatry, psychotherapy, hospital architecture, past futures of medicine #histmed #histsci #histtech #histSTM
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Manuel Merkofer @manuelmerkofer.bsky.social historian trying to grasp how we made sense of our minds and tried to cure them #histmed phd student in history of #neurosurgery @UniversitätZürich
Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social Theory & History of Psychology at the University of Groningen (@rug-gmw.bsky.social). Elected fellow of the APA in History 26 and Developmental 7. Elected president of the APA division for History, 2024-2026. Advisor to NWO SSH Roundtable for Humanities.
Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social Political Theorist. Author of Plutarch's Prism (CUP, 2022). History of ideas and moral psychology. Tennis fanatic.
Anya Plutynski @plutynski.bsky.social Philosophy of science; history & philosophy of biology, medicine & psychology; mental health; clinical research & practice; Washington U St. Louis