Weekly Digest #121

Something for the weekend:

1. What Was It like to Be a Female Doctor during the Ming Dynasty?

2. How hate speech in healthcare tears at something sacred in our common life

3. ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving

4. New Journal of Creative Research Methods

5. Not everyone who uses a wheelchair is paralysed. This is what ambulatory users want you to know

6. High heels, compass, spider-man, or drug? Metaphor analysis of generative artificial intelligence in academic writing

7. José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)

8. Governmentality and the Common Law: Expansion of “Mind” 1835–1885

9. Viewing The Human Circulatory System on its Own

10. For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t

11. Why did the ancient Greeks avoid human dissection?

12. Care Work is Necessary for Anti-Imperialist Struggle

13. This Bill Could Make It Legal for AI to Prescribe Medicine

14. On Creating Your Own Narrative of Illness and Health

15. ‘This​ is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organising them. But because of recent neurological changes in my brain I find shapes fall apart on me. My responsibility to forms can’t be gracefully fulfilled. Nonetheless, I offer the following in the hope it does not strike you as dishevelled or depressing’ Link