Whither social media and clinical genetics?

Social media has become ubiquitous in daily life, and increasingly impacts medical and scientific fields, including related to clinical genetics. Recent events have led to questions about the use of certain social media platforms, as well as social media more generally. We discuss these considerations, including alternative and emerging platforms that can offer forums for the clinical genetics and related communities.     

Neither Physicians Nor Surgeons: Whither Neuropathological Skill in Post-war England?

Neuropathologists constituted a small field in post-war England, perched betweenneurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery and pathology, but recognised as a discrete field ofexpertise. Despite this recognition, the success of the neighbouring fields ofneurosurgery, psychosurgery and neurobiology, and the consultant status granted topathologists in the National Health Service, neuropathologists struggled to stabilisetheir field. A discourse of skills, acquired and acquirable, became central to theirattempts to situate the field in relation to surgeons’ handicraft, physicians’ diagnosticacumen and the technologies of the biological sciences.