 Pre-school Childcare, 19391979
Dr Angela Davis
Contemporary History of
Female Dysfunction, 1960 to
Present
Dr Katherine Angel
Being Human
Medicine and the Human Sciences
Dr Claudia Stein
• Will bring together participants from the natural sciences, social
sciences and the humanities to share expertise with reference to the
question ‘What is ‘human’?’ in the past and present.
Medicine, Technology
and the Household
Dr Roberta Bivins, Dr Claire Jones,
Professor Hilary Marland
•Aims to break new ground in
understandings of the household as a
site of health promotion and therapy
from 1800-1990
•Challenges models of medical
modernity as catalyzed by professional
rather than domestic agendas
Picture Courtesy of
the Wellcome Library
Mental Health Care in
Post-War Britain
Dr Mathew Thomson
Landscape of the Child in Post-War
Britain
•Responds to anxieties about the wellbeing of the British children. In
particular increasing concern that overanxious parents and adults provide
security at the expense of a necessary
freedom for healthy mental and
physical development.
Poverty In India
‘Science, Technology and Medicine
in India, 1930 – 2000: The problem
of poverty’
Convened by Dr Sarah Hodges
•Examines how far and how
effectively projects of science,
technology and medicine have
addressed questions of poverty in
India or instead contributed to their
intensification (or concealment)
between 1930 and 2000.
Sick and Wounded
Servicemen in England,
1650-1750
Dr Matthew Neufeld
Director: Dr Claudia Stein
Web: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/chm
Email: t.horton@warwick.ac.uk