Lehigh HMS 170

Class twitter account for HMS 170 (Medical Humanities), Lehigh University, Health Medicine, & Society Program. instructor: @kilojoule_

[Ashley Winter MD || Urologist @AshleyGWinter]

Vaginal Estrogen reduces antibiotic use.
Pass it on

[Medical Humanities Glasgow @glasgowmedhums]

Exciting news! 'Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity' conference, a collaboration between the MHRC and the Centre for Mad Culture UK, will take place on 15th June 2026 at @UofGlasgow Please see the link below for the CFP!
https://t.co/NLpMNkUU0v

[Lehigh HMS 170 @170Hms]

@Randall_Stps Tweeting through a class account, here, but so I don't forget: in junior high in the mid '90s in Texas, we did square dancing, and it was boring

[Lehigh HMS 170 @170Hms]

@choo_ek English professor here, finishing MPH, tweeting through medical humanities class account. Strongly support every bit of your confession

[Lorenzo Servitje, PhD MPH @kilojoule_]

Dr. Whips reflects on the provocative reimagining of “the Green Ribbon” in Matchado’s “The Husband Stitch” as Dr. Lauren Mitchell walks us through the history of childbirth in the US @170Hms

[Brittani James, MD @DrBrittaniJ]

Join me tomorrow evening as I hold space for us all to unpack the white supremacist protest at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and discuss the state of Anti-Racist Progress in Medicine.

Set a reminder! https://t.co/k6sd9xZJhN

#MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter

[Nwando Olayiwola @DrNwando]

Two articles in same week showing the influence of stigmatizing language in EHRs and implications for health inequity, discrimination bias. Black patients 2.5 x more likely to have negative descriptors in clinical notes. The codification of stigma is a powerful determinant.

[Lehigh HMS 170 @170Hms]

A nice supplement to our discussion of dissection and etiology, and primer for cause, manner, and mechanism of death

[Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @TheLakshmiK]

welp

[David Johnson @davearlingtontx]

#OTD in 1884, the Virginia Assembly passed that state’s first medical practice act. The number of licensing boards established multiplied rapidly in the1880s as medicine continued moving toward a professional framework. #histmed #MedEd #licensing

[Taharka Anderson @taharkaanderson]

This one is good too!

https://t.co/aS62ksxaZt

[Taharka Anderson @taharkaanderson]

For those interested in learning about "social determinants of health," or how structures, institutions, and inequality impacts health, i recommend the following:

https://t.co/9o5Gbudj3d

[Taharka Anderson @taharkaanderson]

In these texts they also interrogate race as a social construct and not a biological/genetic reality.

[Lehigh HMS 170 @170Hms]

keep your eye out for Braun, Cooper Owens, and Roberts this semester. But that’s just a small selection of what��s out there. See below, and please see entire thread

[Taharka Anderson @taharkaanderson]

Here are some reading recommendations to explore the historic and contemporary evidence of medical practitioners blaming African/Black people for their health outcomes and/or justifying medical experimentation on African/Black people:

[Taharka Anderson @taharkaanderson]

In 2020 I took a Race & Medicine course. We had two brilliant professors. One was a Black historian. The other a Black medical doctor. Each week we explored primary and secondary literature that documented historic and contemporary antiblack racism within the medical field.

[Lehigh HMS 170 @170Hms]

Some of us would not hate an informed John Simon twitter account a la @NeoliberalSnow @ProgressiveBudd. Looking at you, @steerewilliams

[Progressive William Budd @ProgressiveBudd]

Zero randomized trials on Berkefeld water filters.
Zero randomized trials on camphor for kids
Zero randomized trials on London’s water companies
Zero randomized trials on cholera cots for industrialized nations

[Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet]

This is such a good set of questions because it prompts us to consider what "good" & "bad" science means. Does it mean "ethical", "accurate", "peer-reviewed"? Because plenty of eugenics goes on today that is based on "good" science, if by that you mean "accurate" & "up-to-date"