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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 3d

Can't wait to talk FIT NATION at Pepperdine! Join us IRL in Malibu on Tuesday for my public talk!

Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so excited to welcome @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social to campus next week to help launch our new minor!

The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 7d

I am so excited to be heading to 🌴 Malibu 🌴 next week to spend time with students + faculty @ Pepperdine U and to give a public talk about my book, FIT NATION, as part of the launch of the new Health Humanities minor. If you’re in SoCal, I hope you’ll join us!
library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so excited to welcome @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social to campus next week to help launch our new minor!

The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 7d

I am so excited to be heading to 🌴 Malibu 🌴 next week to spend time with students + faculty @ Pepperdine U and to give a public talk about my book, FIT NATION, as part of the launch of the new Health Humanities minor. If you’re in SoCal, I hope you’ll join us!
library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Aug 18

What was supposed to take one year has now taken five years (and counting) due to various obstacles.

But artist Vinnie Bagwell is still proceeding with plans to install her "Victory" statue where James Marion Sims's statue once stood. #histmed 🗃️

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The ongoing fight to replace racist monuments in the US: ‘requires a lot of perseverance’

Since a reckoning brought awareness to problematic statues across the country, the road to replacing them has been slow and arduous

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Aug 18

Famous trainer Jillian Michaels announces support for MAHA:

“[What] we’re not going to get from the government, you can create in your own life by taking agency.”

My book on c19 health reform explores how agency became the watchword in US health. #histmed 🗃️

www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-c...

Jillian Michaels Backs RFK Jr.’s Health Movement - NewsBreak

Fitness trainer Jillian Michaels has supported Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement. She

www.newsbreak.com

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Aug 8

“The foundation [of the curriculum] is traditional medicine but enhanced with the humanities and the arts to improve the delivery of care—so we improve on how we [act] with patients and how we partner with patients,” says Makhija.

#histmed

time.com/7303692/alic...

The World's Richest Woman Has Opened a Medical School

The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is trying a new approach to medical education.

time.com

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Aug 5

This is more than I expected!

Now we need a post about how subfields use the same design language and fonts (especially Civil War studies). I'm assuming that's intentional by presses?

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Aug 5

The EEOC is suing the Mayo Clinic for refusing an employee's request for a religious exemption to their vaccine mandate.

It gets less fanfare these days, but folks are still processing and fighting over pandemic issues like mandates, religious liberty, etc.

www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Mayo Clinic refused employee's COVID-19 vaccine exemption request, lawsuit says

A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges the Mayo Clinic violated federal law when it refused a security guard's request to be exempt from getting the COVID-19 vaccine because of his religious beliefs.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jul 23

Something akin to the way Emily K. Abel's article on the Gillespies reveals so much about women and caregiving in the home in the nineteenth-century US. It's great and teachable.

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jul 23

Do any of you brilliant #histmed teachers know of a nice narrative introduction to early nineteenth-century medicine? Something like a case study of a doctor or a patient? I'm looking for something for undergraduates.

I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jul 23

On the fiction that we're in total control of our health.

Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️

hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...

"So once you’re equipped with information, your next stop is the app store on your phone. There’s an app for every landmark on your journey. Just accept the terms, download, and follow the prompts. And stay alert to the health news filling your inbox. It is on you to journey safely, and older advice can lead you straight off a cliff."

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jul 19

I'm so sorry to hear this. How terribly cruel.

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jul 18

Just like Christian bodybuilding, Christian diet culture abides.

I would just add that its history stretches further back than the 1970s and Oral Roberts. In fact, I'm writing about its manifestation in the 1830s! 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...

Opinion | The Unrepentant Return of Christian Diet Culture

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jul 16

American Christians have been blending bodybuilding and faith for more than a century. Here's a check-in with how they're faring these days, with insights from @paulputz.bsky.social. 🗃️

www.menshealth.com/fitness/a651...

Faith, Fitness, and the New Gospel of #Gains: Inside the Conflicted World of Christian Bodybuilders

Christian bodybuilders and fitfluencers are ascending to greater heights of visibility—and facing compelling questions about lust, idolatry, and purpose.

www.menshealth.com

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jul 15

Big news for #skystorians 🗃️: Zotero now supports CMOS 18.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · Jul 14

Courtesy of Andrew Dunning, Zotero and other CSL-supporting reference managers now have full support for Chicago Manual 18th edition: www.zotero.org/styles?q=Chi... (there's a dizzying variety bc CMoS gives you a lot of choices www.zotero.org/styles?q=id%... is your most generic option)

Zotero Style Repository

www.zotero.org

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jul 3

@catherinemcneur.bsky.social talks about the pigs that roamed the streets of nineteenth-century NYC in *Taming Manhattan.* www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Taming Manhattan — Harvard University Press

George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in AmericaHornblower Award for a First Book, New York Soci...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jul 1

A new survey shows that "congregation switching and ideological sorting" have increased among church-goers since the pandemic.

Is this just a correlation, or did pandemic-inspired reflection cause people to make a change in their religious lives? baptistnews.com/article/post...

Post-COVID, church-shifting has created more ideological agreement – Baptist News Global

The COVID pandemic facilitated a greater sorting of churchgoers into more ideological groups than before

baptistnews.com

Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jun 30

Based on how useful *The Book Proposal Book* was for me, I'm very much looking forward to this one!

Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · Jun 30

Want to know how to not just write a scholarly text but make it into a manuscript that publishers actually want?

That's what MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is for.

Preorder from @princetonupress.bsky.social or any bookseller to get it as soon as it starts shipping

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Make Your Manuscript Work

From the bestselling author of The Book Proposal Book, a practical, step-by-step approach to mastering the four pillars of scholarly writing for authors, editors, and publishing professionals

press.princeton.edu

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jun 30

Even better, it's part of a cluster hire.

Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jun 30

#histmed 🗃️ job!

jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53214

Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine in Early North America and the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine in early North America and the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, wit...

jobs.hr.txstate.edu

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Melanie A. Kiechle @melaniekiechle.bsky.social · Jun 27

Is anyone working on the history of homeopathy? Or do you know scholars who have written about homeopathy recently? I could use some help... #histmed 🗃️

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jun 25

Understood! Thanks again for the recommendation.

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jun 25

I just ordered it! I've previously assigned Washington's *Medical Apartheid* for this perspective. How do you think they compare?

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jun 25

I'm currently spamming my ILL librarian. Thank you!

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jun 25

Will investigate! Thank you.

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Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social · Jun 25

Previously, I've used an excerpt from Robert A. Hahn, *Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective.* It helps show the importance of forces beyond the body itself, including the social and psychosomatic. But it didn't quite do the trick. Too anthropological, I guess!

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