Our Society - Our Health

Join me in a brief whistle stop tour of the Historic Hospitals of York, from St Leonard's all the way to York Teaching Hospital. We'll learn how nursing has changed from the 11th Century to the present day and is their anything in the past we can apply to the future of hospitals and the nursing workforce.

Society has a strong influence on attitudes, practices and legislation surrounding the gender-diverse community. A series of semi-structured interviews held in Windhoek, Namibia discussed the lingering effects of colonialism, and how this has knock-on effects on religion, law, and attitudes in general. The research focused on the experiences gender-diverse people had with discrimination through various channels, and how this impacted their wellbeing and ability to find community.

The Reconstruction of Subsistence and Dietary Practices on the Medieval East African Coast through Biomolecular Analysis, examines the development and chronological phases of Shanga (a medieval Swahili site) during its occupation. It explores the community's adoption of Islamic traditions and cultural practices, and how these shifts can be investigated through diet using the biomolecular techniques of stable isotope analysis and ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry).

During pregnancy the body changes a lot from the outside, but also changes a lot on the inside. How these internal feelings are sensed and interpreted changes too. We will explore some of those changes, and how they interact with dimensions of mental health, and the bodily experience as a whole, including how confident people feel about their body shape and size.