Nahyan Fancy
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Professor; University of Exeter; Historian of Science and Medicine in Premodern Islamic Societies; Love Urdu poetry
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Y. pestis was & is the model! From my & @fancynahyan.bsky.social's 2024 essay: "in ushering plague history into the genetics age, [aDNA] has also raised questions about how the physical evidence for microbial pathogens was going to be integrated into medical history." doi.org/10.1017/mdh.....
Show PostThe @exeter.ac.uk smallpox project has launched! Flemming's inaugural blogpost poses the central questions: what did Galen understand by the terms anthrax, erusipelas & herpēs? The project will give a model for putting ancient & modern disease concepts into dialogue. ccehexeter.org/anthrax-erus...
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My latest for National Geographic looks at the 131 new Hittite cuneiform tablets unearthed at Šamuḫa (c. 1400 BCE) & what they tell us about everything from augury to an epidemic that killed Hittite children. Thx to @digkabri.bsky.social, Theo van den Hout, @knpazuzu.bsky.social & ISAC for aid.
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Counterpoint: CEOs should look at their companies as if they needed to provide a service for every citizen, constantly renew their social licence to operate, and plan for the long term wellbeing of the whole country. www.ft.com/content/8255...
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So basically, the Pentagon refused to evacuate families of US service members from Bahrain because "it would look bad at home", but senior leaders evacuated their own family members and left Bahrain under the cover of "military exercise". Yeah, the US is definitely a failing empire...
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