Weekly Digesat #90

Something for the weekend:

1. Rags to Riches: The race to understand—and profit from—period blood

2. The Palgrave Handbook of Disability Sport in Europe: Policies, Structures and Participation

3. Black frontline workers navigating everyday workplace tensions through professionalism

4. The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to Hiring Thousands of New Doctors

5. ‘In moments of extreme pain, physical or psychological, we become stitched to the present moment. It becomes impossible not to be radically present. We can no longer count on a future. And our bright-minded, able-bodied pasts don’t feel like they belong to us anymore’ Link

6. Research as leisure activity

7. Why don’t we know how antidepressants work yet?

8. Motor augmentation – using motorised wearable devices such as exoskeletons or extra robotic body parts to advance our motor capabilities beyond current biological limitations Link

9. Tips for Surviving a Hospital Trip When Chronically Ill

10. Osiris, Volume 39: Disability and the History of Science

11. Community health workers as liminal professionals

12. CfP: Novel sociological methods and practices of engagement across disability communities

13. Care biography: A concept analysis

14. Can’t help myself

15. Fanfare for anarchism: A home for the homeless