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Dr Beatriz Pichel
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Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
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Moving offices also involved finding very cool objects that belong to my ex office mate
A hand holding a projection slide
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I moved offices at work today and I love that the bookshelf had a small shelf at the top the perfect size of the cameras 📸
A bookshelf where the top shelf is smaller and fits three old cameras. The other shelves have books
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Look what I found at the Wellcome Collection shop! Obviously I couldn't resist @drbeldavis.bsky.social
Cover of the book Conceiving Histories. Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present by Isabel Davis, illustrated by Anna Burel
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Very happy on my way to London to spend the day at the Wellcome Library and then the Picturing Health event, which is sold out! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/picturing-...
A selfie of a white woman with blondish hair, red glasses, a dark dress and a red cardigan on a train
October 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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What does the future of medical and scientific imaging look like?
Join Dr Savannah Dodd, Susan Kett-Smart, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Georgie Wileman & me as we explore ethics, innovation, and inclusion in image-making bit.ly/WPPPanelTalk
📷 Image credit: @georgiewileman.bsky.social
A poster with a read background and a photograph of a woman lying on a white sheet, with her top just under her chest. There are marks on her bade belly, her hands lying on the sides of her hips. On the right top corner it says Picturing Health: Ethics, Experience and the Evolution of Medical Photography. On the left bottom corner it says Free Talk and Discussion Wednesday 1 October. The Wellcome Trust logo is on the left top corner.
September 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Yesterday was a good post day! Looking forward to getting into @slobogin.bsky.social Picturing Plastic Surgery on Paper and Susan S Lawrence's classic Privacy and the Past #histmed
Photo of two books: Susan C Lawrence's Privacy and the Past. Research, Law, Archives, Ethics and Christine Slobogin's Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper. How Art and Archives Defined WWII Reconstructive Surgery in Britain
September 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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So the merger of two universities is a triumph for feminism. Okay
Too often, women Vice-Chancellors are held to harsher standards scrutinised more, criticised faster, and vilified for decisions their male peers would be praised for. This must end. That's why today we celebrate Professor Jane Harrington (Vice Chancellor, University of Greenwich) and Professor Georgina Randsley de Moura, (Acting Vice Chancellor, University of Kent). Their bold collaboration shows us what leadership looks like when it's rooted in courage, vision, and collective strength. This is systemic change in action. This is equity in motion. Onwards, Together, Stronger. #GenderEquity #StrongerTogether #WomenWhoLead
September 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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You could say I'm enjoying my research leave
The picture shows that I'm reading Natasha Ruiz Gomez's Pathology and Visual Culture on my tablet in a cafe. There's coffee and cake on the table. The whole vibe is very beige, wooden tables and chairs with big windows
September 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Very excited I finally got my copy of Do Less Harm, brilliantly edited by the incredible @cethompson.bsky.social and @drkyliesmith.bsky.social! In my chapter I reflect on the strategies I follow to teach with images ethically. I LOVED LOVED LOVED writing this piece! #histmed #ethics
A picture of the front cover of the book Do Less Harm. Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney E Thompson and Kylie M Smith A picture of a chapter titled Images and Primary Sources,by me, Beatriz Pichel
August 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I don't want to brag, but this is the latest addition to my camera collection
A Peppa Pig plastic camera
August 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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While the university celebrates the good NSS results on questions like the teaching on my course, here we are, staff and students, defending our jobs and their education #DefendDMU
A rally where you can see a speaker on a staircase surrounded by people with placards.
July 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Love that the sponsored book that Amazon thinks matches the vibe of "Moral Boundaries: A political Argument for an Ethic of Care" is "Conversation Casanova: How to Effortlessly start Conversations and Flirt Like a Pro (how to talk to women)" 🤮
a screenshot of an Amazon page of the book Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care, by Joan Tronto, paperback version. Below the description there's a box with a highlighted sponsored book obviously written by an incel
July 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Today staff and students came together to defend our jobs. It was an honour to listen to so many students defending their education. So proud of each and every one of them. WE are the university! #DefendDMU
A photo of a group of people rallying in front of a building, there are some placards
June 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The fantastic Donna West Brett kicks off the #PHRC25 conference "Photography, Value, History" with a history of news, disaster and photographic value #photohist
A white woman with dark hair and dressed in black is giving a lecture. The projection behind her shows a photograph of a fire.
June 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I'm teaching historiography workshops to our first years so introducing lots of theory (#SorryNotSorry) Yesterday we discussed Foucault and we had so much fun!! Students asked me if we were doing history or philosophy...I guess both? I can't help it, I love it!
A photo of two books on a table: the American edition of Michel Foucault's Discipline & Punish and Foucault's Essential Works vol. 2 aesthetics
May 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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The latest issue of History of Photography is out and it includes my article on the funding and institutionalisation of medical photography! I loved that they used the only photo in the article, a negative glass plate of the Salpêtrière photo studio, in the front cover ❤️ #photohist #histmed
Cover image for History of Photography volume 48 issue 1 (2025). The background is grey. At the top it says History of Photography in white. In the middle of the page there is a glass plate negative of a photo studio. You can see a camera on a tripod, several other devices on the sides, and the stage, with more devices.
April 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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I LOVE that the fact that thousands came together to oppose the English Defence League is an achievement comparable to winning the Premier League or finding the remains of King Richard III in the museum timeline. This amazing city 💪❤️
A timeline of the 2010s with three boxes: 2010 thousands came together in Leicester to oppose an English Defence League protest, 2016 Against all odds, Leicester city football club won the Premier League title, 2012 The remains of King Richard III, killed in battle in 1485, we found in a car park in Leicester
February 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Today's teaching involves visiting the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery and having some rooms basically to myself!
A museum room with a dinosaur skeleton in the middle, surrounded by cases. Other dinosaur displays on the walls. The floor is wooden and the ceiling and walls are white. There are no people in the room
February 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Had a wonderful session at @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social with our @dmuhistory.bsky.social third year students! They're working on an online exhibition using Special Collections materials so watch this space 👀
A female student is looking at a leaflet, there are other papers on the table Two students are standing up, going through the pages of an album with photographs and other papers. A third student is sitting next to them looking at a scrapbook A student flicks through some documents, there are papers, a box with small objects and photographic albums on the table
February 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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A late Christmas present: the proofs of my new article on the institutionalisation of medical photography in Paris, which will be out soon in History of Photography, and will be Open Access! I've been working on this for SO LONG that I'm incredibly excited to finally share it #photohist #histmed
screenshot of the first page of proofs of the article "The Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878–1913)" by BeatrizPichel
January 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Hello Madrid ❤️
A picture of a blue lake, with a monument on the right side, brown trees on the background and a blue sky
December 18, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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I like the poster version too so sharing it here again!!
Poster with the following text: The Ethics of Medical Photography Network, Online seminar , Thursday 30 January 2025, 2-4pm UK time, “Challenging Histories: From the Archives to the Public”, Prof Manon Parry (University of Amsterdam), Dr Michaela Clark (Heinrich-Heine University). Two images side by side, one it's a box with envelops seeing from above, the other is a black and white image of a glass plate negative, there are two hands palms down and cracks on the glass. The images credit is Broken glass plate, Salpêtrière glass plate collection, Countway Library. 5c (Negative: 02534) Box 386 (B3). Box of glass plates, Countway Library. Then there is information with links to register attendance and the logos of De Montfort University, the Arts and Humanities REsearch Council and the University of Leeds.
December 13, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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The irony of reading on the ethics of care for work while being a working mother often stressed about balancing meeting the needs of my dependent and doing my job 🙃 (paragraph from Virginia Held's The Ethics of Care as Moral Theory)
First, the central focus of the ethics of care is on the compelling moral salience of attending to and meeting the needs of the particular others for whom we take responsibility. Caring for one's child, for instance, may well and defensibly be at the forefront of a person's moral concerns. The ethics of care recognizes that human beings are dependent for many years of their lives, that the moral claim of those dependent on us for the care they need is pressing, and that there are highly important moral aspects in developing the relations of caring that enable human beings to live and progress. All persons need care for at least their early years. Prospects for human progress and flourishing hinge fundamentally on the care that those needing it receive, and the ethics of care stresses the moral force of the responsibility to respond to the needs of the dependent. Many persons will become ill and dependent for some periods of their later lives, including in frail old age, and some who are permanently disabled will need care the whole of their lives. Moralities built on the image of the independent, autonomous, rational individual largely overlook the reality of human dependence and the morality for which it calls. The ethics of care attends to this central concern of human life and delineates the moral values involved. It refuses to relegate care to a realm "outside morality." How caring for particular others should be reconciled with the claims of, for instance, universal justice is an issue that NTER FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (oxford.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, nograph in OSO for personal use.
November 5, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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Feel free to invite me to give talks at places that are 2 minutes from an Olympic port, please and thank you
March 6, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Got a new toy for my birthday! #leica #photohist
February 28, 2024 at 5:47 PM