Warwick Anderson
@wombatscholar.bsky.social
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Pleased to see (thanks to Heekyong Burge) my latest book There Is No Such Thing as Western Science: The Challenge from Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies, collected and translated by Jongsik Yi (Wonju: Eum, 2025) - available in good Korean bookstores. Not in English!
#STS #histstm #histsci
#STS #histstm #histsci
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is surprising. Nice of course, but an unexpected endorsement from The Australian, the Murdoch flagship. Delightfully ironic also that I'm now in an anthropology program! And no doubt many colleagues could challenge the claim...
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This is surprising. Nice of course, but an unexpected endorsement from The Australian, the Murdoch flagship. Delightfully ironic also that I'm now in an anthropology program! And no doubt many colleagues could challenge the claim...
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social
Wish they also had the Marxist summer school programs! I found a program for the Sydney History Dept's 1970 Marxist summer school in the papers of a president of the Royal Society (he'd participated). How times have changed
The details of these talks are in this poster:
The details of these talks are in this poster:
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Wish they also had the Marxist summer school programs! I found a program for the Sydney History Dept's 1970 Marxist summer school in the papers of a president of the Royal Society (he'd participated). How times have changed
The details of these talks are in this poster:
The details of these talks are in this poster:
Turns out the posters for 81 and 82 were even more fetching. As Cathy says, they had to be alluring as the Sydney Marxists gathered in January, prime beach weather...
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Turns out the posters for 81 and 82 were even more fetching. As Cathy says, they had to be alluring as the Sydney Marxists gathered in January, prime beach weather...
In doing some research for a talk on the influence of 1980s radical Sydney (esp corporeal feminism) and AIDS activism on the work in STS of @cwaldby.bsky.social, learned about her 1st academic talk (1983) at the annual Marxist summer school - see poster
#STS @aussts.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
#STS @aussts.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
In doing some research for a talk on the influence of 1980s radical Sydney (esp corporeal feminism) and AIDS activism on the work in STS of @cwaldby.bsky.social, learned about her 1st academic talk (1983) at the annual Marxist summer school - see poster
#STS @aussts.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
#STS @aussts.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
Looking forward to the celebration of Cathy Waldby's brilliant career in Canberra next week. Though I'm inclined to speak on radical Sydney and AIDS last century - not biovalue and reproduction!
#STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social @sonjavw.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social
#STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social @sonjavw.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Looking forward to the celebration of Cathy Waldby's brilliant career in Canberra next week. Though I'm inclined to speak on radical Sydney and AIDS last century - not biovalue and reproduction!
#STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social @sonjavw.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social
#STS @4sweb.bsky.social @aussts.bsky.social @sonjavw.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social
Proofs of the Afterword by @cwaldby.bsky.social and me for the social survey in global perspective book have arrived. Edited by Charlotte Greenhalgh, @clarecorbould.bsky.social and me, published in 2026 by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Greenh...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Greenh...
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Proofs of the Afterword by @cwaldby.bsky.social and me for the social survey in global perspective book have arrived. Edited by Charlotte Greenhalgh, @clarecorbould.bsky.social and me, published in 2026 by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Greenh...
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Greenh...
Sorry to miss this on Nov 11 - past my bedtime
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Sorry to miss this on Nov 11 - past my bedtime
A very impressive and heavy award! Arrived in Sydney yesterday. Wombats a bit puzzled....
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
A very impressive and heavy award! Arrived in Sydney yesterday. Wombats a bit puzzled....
Honored to be awarded the 2025 Arthur J Viseltear Prize for lifetime achievement in public health history from @apha.org Sadly, wasn't in DC to receive it - worried about crossing the border. Sent a video acceptance!
#histmed #STS
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social
#histmed #STS
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Honored to be awarded the 2025 Arthur J Viseltear Prize for lifetime achievement in public health history from @apha.org Sadly, wasn't in DC to receive it - worried about crossing the border. Sent a video acceptance!
#histmed #STS
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social
#histmed #STS
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social
If you want to understand the deeper pathology of Trump's AI-generated "poop video," I suggest you read Spectacles of Waste: www.wiley.com/en-ae/Specta...
October 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
If you want to understand the deeper pathology of Trump's AI-generated "poop video," I suggest you read Spectacles of Waste: www.wiley.com/en-ae/Specta...
Delighted that long-term research fellow in planetary health humanities at USyd, Dr James Dunk, is moving upwards to be director of the St James Institute, a humanities and policy institute associated with the Sydney Anglican Church.
#histmed #histstm @anzshm.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social
#histmed #histstm @anzshm.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Delighted that long-term research fellow in planetary health humanities at USyd, Dr James Dunk, is moving upwards to be director of the St James Institute, a humanities and policy institute associated with the Sydney Anglican Church.
#histmed #histstm @anzshm.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social
#histmed #histstm @anzshm.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social
My co-author Ian Mackay wryly predicted this award some 15 years ago, as we were writing Intolerant Bodies:
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October 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My co-author Ian Mackay wryly predicted this award some 15 years ago, as we were writing Intolerant Bodies:
press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
When Ian Mackay and I wrote our history of autoimmunity we focused on several diseases, but not ALS. If it were ever revised there would be so much more to include now!
October 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
When Ian Mackay and I wrote our history of autoimmunity we focused on several diseases, but not ALS. If it were ever revised there would be so much more to include now!
Our Lancet viewpoint, 'Bioethics for the Planet', seems ever more timely. Caring for humans and all life forms demands we care also for the planet. Viewable with registration
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
October 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Our Lancet viewpoint, 'Bioethics for the Planet', seems ever more timely. Caring for humans and all life forms demands we care also for the planet. Viewable with registration
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
Two ageing men sitting on the beach at Byron Bay, chatting about history and philosophy of biology, as one does. Paul Griffiths and me, photo Terese Hayward
September 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Two ageing men sitting on the beach at Byron Bay, chatting about history and philosophy of biology, as one does. Paul Griffiths and me, photo Terese Hayward
Lovely to have a Penn HSS reunion of sorts at EAHMH in Berlin last week, including @hanspols.bsky.social Jennifer Gunn and @eblucyclio.bsky.social Photo of me and Jennifer in a beer garden (of course) by Elizabeth:
September 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Lovely to have a Penn HSS reunion of sorts at EAHMH in Berlin last week, including @hanspols.bsky.social Jennifer Gunn and @eblucyclio.bsky.social Photo of me and Jennifer in a beer garden (of course) by Elizabeth:
These are trying times, so it's both a relief and a joy to engage intellectually with such brilliant scholars in Berlin, all of us trying to imagine a better world. www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
August 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are trying times, so it's both a relief and a joy to engage intellectually with such brilliant scholars in Berlin, all of us trying to imagine a better world. www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Our book on global histories of social medicine is available open access @universitypress.cambridge.org
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#histmed #socialmedicine #STS #histstm
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#histmed #socialmedicine #STS #histstm
August 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Our book on global histories of social medicine is available open access @universitypress.cambridge.org
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
#histmed #socialmedicine #STS #histstm
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
#histmed #socialmedicine #STS #histstm
Great conversations at the launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale in Berlin last night. @ctimmermann.bsky.social Sebastien Fonseca @doravargha.bsky.social Projit Mukharji Jeremy Greene me @ahlie.bsky.social
Projit gave a stirring speech....
Projit gave a stirring speech....
August 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Great conversations at the launch of Medicine on a Larger Scale in Berlin last night. @ctimmermann.bsky.social Sebastien Fonseca @doravargha.bsky.social Projit Mukharji Jeremy Greene me @ahlie.bsky.social
Projit gave a stirring speech....
Projit gave a stirring speech....