Weekly Digest #187

Something for the weekend:

1. The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air

2. Myth and (mis)information: Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture

3. ‘The waste I watched from the inside over 24 hours [in the public healthcare system] was remarkable: the same story told six times, the same photo taken six times, the same pieces of information gathered again and again because no one had time to read what the previous shift had written. If we can shift even part of that burden onto the patient’s side, with the patient’s own AI carrying their story cleanly from one clinician to the next, it starts to look like a real contribution to the sustainability problem that every public health system is wrestling with’ Link

4. Baruch Spinoza and the Ethics of Care: Towards A Monistic Understanding of Spiritual Care at the End of Life

5. On Gout: What the disease taught me about language, inheritance and pain

6. CfP: ‘Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the Lived Experience of Illness and Care’ – June 8-12, 2026. Palazzo Mauri in Spoleto

7. Regulating digital health in the Global South: critical and decolonial approaches

8. Individual responses to hybrid professionalism: a systematic literature review and proposal for future research

9. After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026

10. Postmodernism and Education in Nursing Science: The Case of Clinical Skills

11. Our Emerging Planetary Nervous System

12. Doc or Quack: Science and Anti-Science in Modern Medicine

13. Chronic illness, meritocracy, and the pressure to do more

14. Pain and passion in the limbo of suffering

15. A college student’s perspective on using AI in class