Guest blogging

I've owed Body Impolitic a guest post for months, but between being over-committed and not being able to get my ideas in order, I didn't get round to doing this until recently, when the news that 'overweight is actually healthy' catalysed the various thoughts I'd been playing around with. This seemed to me yet another of those instances where medicine and popular opinion believe that something that is not actually pathological and pretty much within the normal range of healthy human variations is something terrible and to be feared and fought against.

So: Health Panics in Historical Perspective

Three recent posts on the Wellcome blog

I seem to have been on a bit of a work-blogging roll in the past couple of weeks:
Extreme traveller of the early C20th
Surprise addition to Blacker papers
War and the psyche

Else-blog

Made a somewhat more extensive post on the Naomi Mitchison Library series over at Ambling Along the Aqueduct (since Aqueducistas are probably a target audience for matters Mitchison).

And since Dame Rosalind Paget came up as the ODNB Life of the Day today, I knocked out a blog post for the Wellcome Library blog about her to draw attention to our holdings of her papers. And because I always like to draw attention to the numerous female reformers of nursing and related professions in the nineteenth century who were not the rather over-exposed Florence, who did not singlehandedly change the face of nursing. (NB I even managed an allusion to Eva Luckes in the post.)