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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Aug 13

Reminiscent of the Men's Dress Reform Party www.cost-ofliving.net/fashion-male...

Fashion, Male Beauty and the ‘Men’s Dress Reform Party’

The first half of the 20 century a group of eugenicists form the Men’s Dress Reform Party to make masculinity more beautiful.

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Aug 8

Go and see this. It's great.

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jul 29

Bye

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jul 25

New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...

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Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty”

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jul 25

New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...

Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty” - Cost Of Living

Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty”

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jul 22

New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality
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Distress in Community Food Support

Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jul 22

New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality
www.cost-ofliving.net/systemic-bet...

Distress in Community Food Support

Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jul 15

New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...

How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jul 15

New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social‬ looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...

Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jul 15

What could possibly go wrong?

Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jul 15

New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...

How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jul 15

New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social‬ looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...

Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · May 22

New blog - "Disinformation, vested interest and the campaign against vegan diets" - Chris Till looks at the right-wing criticism of vegan diets and uncovers vested interests, anti-environmentalism and climate denialism #veganism #climatechange www.cost-ofliving.net/disinformati...

The Campaign Against Vegan Diets

Chris Till looks at the disinformation campaigns against the adoption of vegan diets

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · May 16

New Palestine Museum just opened in Edinburgh on Dundas Street

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Apr 23

New Blog Post - "Creating a Surplus" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social critically examines the concept of 'surplus' in healthcare systems and argues that it often makes people responsible for a whole set of structural conditions beyond their control www.cost-ofliving.net/creating-a-s... #policy #deathpanels

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Creating a surplus

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BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social · Mar 25

Our MedSoc 2025 call for abstracts is now open. Visit www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... to find out more and submit your abstract. Closing date, 2nd May. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

Medical Sociology Conference 2025

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Rose Watson @esor.bsky.social · Mar 25

The BSA Medical Sociology conference is now open for abstract submission. Looking forward to the usual interesting range of papers

Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Mar 19

The #BSA Medical #Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September 2025, Northumbria University, UK, *CALL FOR PAPERS* is now open www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Medical Sociology Conference 2025

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Mar 19

The #BSA Medical #Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September 2025, Northumbria University, UK, *CALL FOR PAPERS* is now open www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Medical Sociology Conference 2025

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · Feb 23

4/6 🛡️ We must protect the integrity of scientific knowledge. Suppression of research anywhere threatens knowledge everywhere. Solidarity with censored colleagues is crucial

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Anna Coleman @drannac.bsky.social · Feb 7

In current employment systems, disclosure is required to access workplace support, but organisations can actively penalise those that disclose, while making those that don’t disclose work harder to mask or conceal their symptoms, condition or impairment 👇
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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jan 24

Blog "The fragile worker: stigma, illness and disability in the contemporary workplace" by Jen Remnant
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Disability and the fragile worker

The fragile worker: stigma, illness and disability in the contemporary workplace

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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · Jan 16

New Blog - "Reclaiming Dignity in Food Support: Addressing the Hidden Cost of Hunger" - Carl Walker reports on research revealing “hunger trauma,” where food-insecure individuals suffer distress, shame and guilt. He argues for a more dignified approach to food insecurity tinyurl.com/yzjtsukf

Reclaiming Dignity in Food Support

Carl walker explores the concept of hunger trauma, where individuals suffer emotional distress, and feelings of shame and guilt.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Jan 16

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Today, a devastating report from the @rcn.org.uk, based on the testimony of over 5000 NHS nurses, has rightly catapulted the national shame that is NHS 'corridor care' into the headlines once more. (1/15)

a newspaper headline about the RCN report

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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · Jan 12

Thread on increasing lack of academic control of academic publishing - will be familiar to editors of corporately-owned journals. Do choose community led journals when you can!

Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · Jan 9

My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · Jan 7

Health insurers grapple with UnitedHealthcare murder—and a public short on sympathy https://buff.ly/4j8edYo

Health insurers grapple with UnitedHealthcare murder—and a public short on sympathy

Headlines expressed shock and condemnation of the killing of a health insurance executive in New York. But public comment has been very different. Owen Dyer reports One should not speak ill of the…

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