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Danielle Farrow reflects on CleanMed Europe 2025 explores the unresolved tensions shaping sustainable healthcare: how we balance patient outcomes, budgets, and planetary health, and who carries the burden of driving change. Read the full piece on why confronting these trade-offs is essential for reimagining healthcare’s future.

Jeremy Greene’s invited lecture at Bowdoin College explored how disposability became embedded in modern medicine, and why healthcare waste should be understood as the result of historical choices rather than an inevitable feature of care.

Reflections on the 2025 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health conference, where project members organised a panel and launched two new books, Bruno J. Strasser introduced The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air and Anne Kveim Lie and Jeremy Greene launched Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine.

At the 2025 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health conference, Peter Mangesho examined Tanzania’s shift to incinerating medical waste and the challenges of waste disposal infrastructure.