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 Centre for Medical History offers an excellent MA programme which integrates the history of medicine and medical practice with contemporary issues in occupational and environmental health. This MA programme draws on a range of staff with specialist knowledge in this area of study including Professor Mark Jackson, Professor Joseph Melling and Dr Kate Fisher. We are also developing an interest in early modern medicine, sexuality and gender as reflected in the appointment of Dr Sarah Toulalan as Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Medicine.

Courses will include:

Research skills in history;.
explanation and interpretation;.
work, health and medical intervention since 1800;
the history of psychiatry;
occupational health in the modern world;
patterns of birth mortality and disease;
medicine and social policy;
working life, technology and health;
gender, medicine and the workplace;
population, health and disease in modern Britain;
medicine and the body in early modern England.

Latest News:

Both Debbie Palmer and Hannah Newton have successfully passed their viva examinations and each will shortly be awarded a doctorate. Congratulations Debbie & Hannah!

January 2010

Sarah Toulalan has been awarded a two-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship starting 1 October 2010.

December 2009

NEW LINK - Devon & Exeter Medical Society Web pages.

November 2009

Darwin, Medicine & the Humanities Symposium
18 - 19 September 2009

Four Wellcome Trust student bursaries & early registration rates available.

More details about registration & bursaries available from the Darwin Symposium Web pages.

August 2009

Matthew Smith presented a paper entitled "'From Fidgety Phil to Bart Simpson or not? The Uses and Abuses of the History of Hyperactivity" at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 29th - 31st 2009, at Carleton University, Ottawa.

The paper attracted a great deal of media interest, and was the 2nd most commonly cited news item emanating out of the Congress (out of a total of 4500 papers).

Matthew was interviewed on the radio, and by a number of newspapers, including the Ottawa Sun and Toronto Star.

Ottawa Sun article

Canadian Press article

July 2009