Sally Cross

Sally Cross is a Research Assistant and PhD student at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester. Her PhD is focused on fibromyalgia and ME/CFS both in their contemporary historical developments and in the everyday experiences of clinicians, researchers and patients. She previously studied neuroscience and has worked for non-profit organisations that support communities facing socioeconomic and health injustices.

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Book Review: Hannah Proctor’s ‘Burnout’

Book Review: Hannah Proctor’s ‘Burnout’


Burnout. The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, by Hannah Proctor (Verso, 2024) Hannah Proctor’s Burnout is not about how tiredness arises from the daily grind. Instead, “burnout” is conceptualised as an emotional fatigue which emerges from political struggle. Proctor is a historian at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at the […]