Weekly Digest #108

Something for the weekend:

1. Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results

2. Work is four letters

3. Training and Diet are Simple Because Your Body is Complex

4. Bösl on Powell, 'Bodies of Work: The First World War and the Transnational Making of Rehabilitation'

5. Deconstructing Professionalism as Code for White (Power): Authenticity as Resistance in Nursing

6. Manage neck pain from computer work with AirPods

7. Indian Club Swinging and the Birth of Global Fitness

8. Smart money and permanent injury: occupational health in early modern English capitalism, 1590–1803

9. Plastic resilience: ‘success should not be based on a return to function, but rather on how actively we are involved in the formation of a new self after illness’ Link

10. Widening Access in UK Medicine and the Making of an Emotional Proletariat

11. The Death of Me?: The True Story of One Man's Experience with Stage IV Prostate Cancer - A 60-page comic book

12. The Evolution and Integration of Life and Theory in Foucault’s Work on Power

13. ‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber

14. How Henri Bergson’s Radical View of Reality Came to Be

15. Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe: Practices, routines and experiences