The Centre for Medical History

A Wellcome Trust funded research centre dedicated to advancing methods and areas of research within the history of medicine, and forging links with medical and health care professionals in the region. More about the Centre

MA in Medical History

The Medical History MA provided through the Wellcome Trust funded Centre for Medical History, at the University of Exeter, draws on academic expertise in a broad range of areas of research in the history of health and medicine. These include medieval and early modern medicine and the body, the histories of reproduction and sexuality, environments and health, work and health, and the history of stress. The programme draws on a range of staff with specialist knowledge in this area of study including Professor Mark Jackson, Professor Joseph Melling, Dr Kate Fisher, and Dr Sarah Toulalan.

Modules offered may include:

Theory and Practice of History I and II (core modules);
Medicine and society in the middle ages;
Medicine in medieval and early modern England;
Organising knowledge in early modern Europe;
Gender, society and culture in early modern England;
Witchcraft in History;
The Darwinian Revolution;
Health and the State;
Health and medicine in modern Britain;
Sexual discoveries: the reception of 'erotica' from 'other' cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;
Fieldwork in medical history.

Latest News:

Centre for Medical History academics triumph at Exeter Impact Awards.

Dr Kate Fisher and Dr Rebecca Langlands are celebrating after winning an award for 'Outstanding Social and Cultural Impact' as part of the University of Exeter's Impact Awards.

Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality, History

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Registration open for World of Paper: Writing Natural History from Gessner to Darwin.

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Latest Staff Publications:

Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present (Palmer Macmillan, 2011)

The authors in this book examine how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted over time, from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. This collection aims to draw the reader's attention to the continuities in thinking about bodies and sex over the centuries – while concepts may change, they nevertheless draw on older ideas and language.