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Staff PublicationsCentre for Medical History staff write, edit and contribute to a wide range of publications, including books, book chapters and journal articles. Full publication lists are available from staff profile pages. Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945–1970
The historical association between femininity and neurosis is well documented. Many recent studies have seen women’s mental health issues in the aftermath of the Second World War as being a direct consequence of a lack of opportunity and the banality of a domestic lifestyle. Although the figure of the ‘desperate housewife’ is familiar to us, Haggett suggests that many women in the 1950s and 1960s led satisfying lives and that gender roles, while very different, were often seen as equal. Critical Quarterly: Essentialism in Science and Culture
In 2010 scholars from science and the humanities, from Europe and the USA, met at a workshop in order to trace the histories and contemporary uses and values of this vexed term, from Aristotle to postgenomic science. This issue publishes our reflections from the workshop. Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present
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. Rather than reproduce narratives of change and progress – or liberation from repression – 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.
Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World
Environmental hazards from industry remain one of the world's foremost killers. Dangerous Trade establishes historical groundwork for a better understanding of how and why these hazards continue to threaten our shrinking world. In this collection, an international group of scholars casts a rigorous eye towards efforts to combat these ailments. The essays in Dangerous Trade provide an unprecedented broad perspective of the dangers stirred up by industrial activity across the globe, as well as the voices rasied to remedy them. The Oxford Handbook of The History of Medicine
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources. Bringing together over thirty international scholars, this handbook provides a constructive overview of the current state of these debates, and offers new directions for future scholarship. Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture
Examining modern art, literature, film, theory and the law, Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture challenges the division of straight and queer temporalities. The collection explores the relation between sexuality and time in a variety of historical and disciplinary contexts. Jana Funke's chapter considers the connection between narrative continuity, health and sexual difference in sexological case studies and presents a close reading of the memoirs of early twentieth-century German-Jewish 'pseudo-hermaphrodite' Karl M. Baer. Sex before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate life in England 1918-1963
What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book provides a rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mid-twentieth century. It looks beyond conventions of silence among the respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and inhibition. Based on vivid, compelling and frank testimonies from a socially and geographically diverse range of individuals, the book explores a spectrum of sexual experiences, from learning about sex and sexual practices in courtship, to attitudes to the body, marital ideals and birth control. Prize winner Asthma: The Biography
Asthma is a familiar and growing disease today, but its story goes back to the ancient world, as we know from accounts in ancient texts from China, India, Greece and Rome. Mark Jackson tells the story of Asthma throughout history - not only in terms of growing medical understanding of its nature and cure, but also shifting social and cultural attitudes, and changes in the meaning of the name of the disease itself. Asthma: the biography is part of the Oxford series, Biographies of Diseases. Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Post-war Britain
A recurring theme in the history of modern Britain in the twentieth-century has been the failure of its manufacturing industry and the record of disorder and conflict in the industrial workplace. This image was reinforced by the evidence of national strikes from the 1960s until 1984. This emphasis on decline and disorder in British manufacturing has distorted our understanding of workplace relationships and cultures in the post-war years. This volume provides a fresh assessment of the diverse and complex world of the workplace and Britain's production cultures during the long boom. Essays investigate the public and private sectors, and both manufacturing and service industries.The volume begins with a comparison of labour management in the post-war automobile industry, exploring the role of the foreman in the management of shop floor labour in Britain and the USA. The following two essays are concerned with relations between management and workers in the publicly-owned corporations. The first examines negotiations over pay and effort at the Swindon locomotive works, including the cultural values which informed the behaviour of the bargainers. The second investigates managerial responses to technical change in the British gas industry. We then move into the service sector, with an essay on the management of clerical staff in banks, including a discussion of the different roles available to male and female workers, and the incorporation of automated technologies. The final essay looks at the involvement of the unions in workplace productivity and the extent to which Labour politics informed union behaviour.The essays in this volume shed new light on the reasons for Britain's economic performance and opens up earlier interpretations of national decline and adversarial workplace cultures for further debate. Health & the Modern Home
The central aim of this volume is to explore how the complex and shifting relationship between health (and illness) and the home was recognised, investigated, and exploited from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, through a series of specific, but often inter-linked, case studies. With this in mind, it is important from the outset to clarify, as precisely as possible, what we mean here by 'health,' 'modern,' and 'the home,' and to reflect on how those categories, and the relationships between them, have been explored in previous historical studies. Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England
Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth- century England. It explores a wide variety of material from the period to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it one that was usually subject at this time to suppression. Pornographic writing was a widespread feature of a range of texts, including popular literature (ballads, news-sheets, court reports, small books and pamphlets) as well as poetry, drama and more specialised medical books. This book analyses representations of sex, sexuality, and eroticism in historical context to explore contemporary thinking about these issues, and also broader cultural concerns and shifts in attitudes. It questions both modern feminist and psychoanalytical interpretations of pornography, arguing that neither of these approaches are appropriate, or helpful, to an understanding of this seventeenth-century material. Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain 1918 - 1960
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a revolution in contraceptive behaviour as the large Victorian family disappeared. This book offers a new perspective on the gender relations, sexual attitudes, and contraceptive practices that accompanied the emergence of the smaller family in modern Britain. Kate Fisher draws on a range of first-hand evidence, including over 190 oral history interviews, in which individuals born between 1900 and 1930 described their marriages and sexual relationships. By using individual testimony she challenges many of the key conditions that have long been envisaged by demographic and historical scholars as necessary for any significant reduction in average family size to take place. Dr Fisher demonstrates that a massive expansion in birth control took place in a society in which sexual ignorance was widespread; that effective family limitation was achieved without the mass adoption of new contraceptive technologies; that traditional methods, such as withdrawal, abstinence, and abortion were often seen as preferable to modern appliances, such as condoms and caps; that communication between spouses was not key to the systematic adoption of contraception; and, above all, that women were not necessarily the driving force behind the attempt to avoid pregnancy. Women frequently avoided involvement in family planning decisions and practices, whereas the vast majority of men in Britain from the interwar period onward viewed the regular use of birth control as a masculine duty and obligation. By allowing this generation to speak for themselves, Kate Fisher produces a richer understanding of the often startling social attitudes and complex conjugal dynamics that lay behind the vast changes in contraceptive behaviour and family size in the twentieth century. Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady
Allergy is a modern malady. Only one hundred years ago, the term 'allergy' was unknown, and diseases subsequently identified as allergic in nature, such as asthma, hayfever, eczema, and food intolerance, were routinely considered to be rare, non-fatal conditions primarily afflicting the cultured and civilized classes of Western society. By the closing decade of the twentieth century, however, allergy had acquired greater medical, political, socio-economic, and cultural significance. Increasingly perceived by clinicians, the media and the public as widespread and potentially fatal conditions, allergies became a distinct clinical specialism, generated new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, and, in the process, created a lucrative market for international pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries. As epidemiologists revealed rising levels of asthma, hayfever, skin reactions and food allergies in developing as well as developed countries, allergy also became the archetypal 'disease of civilization', generating global political concerns about the relationship between health and the environment and stimulating anxieties about the detrimental side-effects of modern living. Charting entirely new territory in the social history of medicine, Mark Jackson's book offers critical insights not only into the emergence of new categories of illness in the modern period but also into the historical geography of disease. Click here for more information and an order form. |
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