Weekly Digest #109

Something for the weekend:

1. ‘Everybody knows it’s a simple fact of life that gentlemen simply do not have unclean hands’ Link

2. Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body and this

3. ‘Cue an intriguing US study published in October in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which reported a randomised clinical trial on whether ChatGPT could improve the diagnostic capabilities of 50 practising physicians. The ho-hum conclusion was that “the availability of an LLM to physicians as a diagnostic aid did not significantly improve clinical reasoning compared with conventional resources”. But there was a surprising kicker: ChatGPT on its own demonstrated higher performance than both physician groups (those with and without access to the machine)’ Link

4. 16 Nerve Cell Types Identified in Human Touch

5. The history of resilience

6. A longtime health reporter, Elizabeth Payne thought she understood Canada's failing health-care system. Then her dad fell. Link

7. Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech

8. These wellness culture thoughts about chronic illness are incredibly stigmatising

9. Empirical Disability Legal Studies

10. The Therapist in the Machine: Chatbots take on the talking cure

11. The Meaning of Being a ‘Good Nurse’ in the ICU During the COVID-19 Pandemic and this

12. Global Histories of Disability, 1700-2015: Power, Place and People

13. Bodymind Pains and Metabolic Conditions

14. Inaccessible Access: Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation

15. Neoliberalism Against Society? Spontaneous Order and Governance of Desire in Digital Societies