Weekly Digest #72

Something for the weekend:

1. The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies ($482!)

2. The doctor who saw colonialism as a sickness and this

3. Placing Disability: Personal Essays of Embodied Geography

4. An animal myself

5. ‘One of Manne’s first targets is the conflation of fat bodies with sickness and mortality. Drawing on decades of research, Manne deftly counters notions that weight loss lengthens life spans and improves cardiometabolic markers’ Link

6. Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature

7. Critical theory explained

8. ‘Humanism is the only, and, I would go so far as saying, the final, resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history’ - Edward Said Link

9. ‘his research led him to suspect that the intelligence of living things lies outside their brains to a surprising degree’ Link

10. First views of ISCHP 2025 conference website

11. Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State: Finland and the Nordic Model

12. Sondra Horton Fraleigh work on dance and phenomenology

13. How much do we know about nursing care delivery models in a hospital setting?

14. With key long COVID trials yet to yield results, people with the condition are trying to change how clinical trials are done

15. “Healthcare professionals were the most common resource with which participants engaged (85.0%), followed by the Internet (68.5%) and scientific articles (52.8%). Books and scientific articles had the highest helpfulness rating; healthcare professionals and pamphlets had the lowest” Link