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JOANNA BOURKE

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Here are my latest blogs! Enjoy.


Sexual Violence Research Instigates Change
Caption: Reception for the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence. Left to right: Professor Joanna Bourke, Julia...
Jun 15, 20243 min read
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SHaME's End of Grant Report
I loved working with the SHaME (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters) team over 5 and a half years. SHaME’s Public Engagement Lead, Dr...
Jun 15, 20241 min read
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History, Mental Health, and Psychiatry: 5 Shifts
Robairt Clough was a long-term patient at Holywell Psychiatric Hospital in Antrim (Northern Ireland). In the Christmas 1972 edition of...
Feb 11, 202415 min read
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Dementia: A History
A few weeks before writing this blog, I was launching a book that I had recently published. A former PhD student of mine and someone I...
Feb 5, 202425 min read
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Sexual Perversion: A History
What do we mean when we talk about the ‘perversions’? Who gets to decide what is ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’? The concept of ‘perversion’ is...
Feb 5, 202420 min read
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