Weekly Digest #91

Something for the weekend:

1. Human parasites in the Roman World: health consequences of conquering an empire

2. Reading Marx’s 'Capital' with Deleuze and Guattari

3. A new three-year appointment for a Pukenga Māori in Te Kura Tātai Hauora (c/o Annemarie Jutel)

4. Eating Disorders In Public Discourse: Exploring Media Representations and Lived Experiences

5. Swallowable tiny robot with thrusters performs endoscopy at home

6. The Lives of Seven Children Tell the Story of UK Inequality

7. How laughing gas changed the world

8. Kant’s Ideas Shaped Human Rights Theories. How Do We Contend With His Racism?

9. Necropolitics of death in neurodegeneration

10. Aiming at the ‘proper’ body: How exoskeletons foster ‘risky’ bodies and conflicting knowledge regimes

11. Feminist mental health activism in England, c. 1968-95

12. Curating ‘the good story’: Care as representative performance in Danish veteran rehabilitation

13. The Structure of Academic Writing: Lessons from John McPhee

14. ‘[I]n a randomized controlled field study, we explored the effect of allowing students to choose whether to make their attendance mandatory (i.e., a component of their course grades). We found that nearly all students used the opportunity as a pre-commitment device and were subsequently more likely to attend class than were students whose attendance had been mandated’ Link

15. This Chrome extension allows you to read articles from (supported) sites that implement a paywall