With the kind sponsorship of the Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust Visit
University of Warwick
Friday 4 May, 2012
Convenor
Professor David Hardiman (University of Warwick CHM Director)
Wellcome Trust Visit
University of Warwick
Friday 4 May 2012
Radcliffe House
Contents
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Conference Information
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Provisional Programme
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Centre Information
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Postdoctoral and Research Project Titles
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Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick.
Venue
Radcliffe House - (Lecture Room 5), University of Warwick
Radcliffe House is located on the main road into the University of Warwick Campus; it is marked as building 50 on the
main campus map. This can be downloaded at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/campusmap/ .
There are a small number of parking spaces available at Radcliffe, should you require parking please contact Tracy
Horton (T.Horton@warwick.ac.uk).
Once you arrive at Radcliffe please report to reception for the Centre for the History of Medicine Wellcome visit.
Further information on Radcliffe is available via the University web:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/conferences/radcliffe
Programme
The programme has been divided into two sessions. The morning session is for the Centre for the History of Medicine
and invited staff and Lunch through to the Afternoon Session will be open to CHM Postdoctoral Fellows, Researchers
and Collaborative invitees.
An individual surgery session has been included within the afternoon with five slots for discussing projects and
proposals. These will take place in additional Case Study Room 16. Should you wish to book a slot please email
t.horton@warwick.ac.uk.
Catering
Catering and refreshments will be provided on the day, including a welcome drink followed by a 3 course served
lunch. (Should you have any queries about the menu please contact Tracy Horton (T.Horton@warwick.ac.uk).
Please note that dietary requirements will be accommodated if we are advised beforehand.
Taxis
The University uses Trinity Taxis for travel arrangements.
Tel: 02476 631631
For those claiming expenses, we would be most grateful if you could please keep your receipts.
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University of Warwick
Friday 4 May 2012
Radcliffe House
Provisional Programme
Friday 4 May 2012
10.00 – 10.30
Arrival and Refreshments
10.30 – 10.45
Welcome and opening remarks: David Hardiman
10.45 – 12.00
Introductions & Funding Discussions
WT Guests, CHM Academic Staff, RSS, Arts Faculty Chair, History Chair & Administrator
Refreshments Available Throughout
12.00 – 12.15
12.15 – 1.45
Welcome Drink
Lunch
Joined by CHM Postdoctoral Fellows, Researchers
& invited Collaborative Partners
1.45 – 2.45
(NFietje)
Wellcome Trust - MHH Funding Portfolio & Questions
Refreshments Available Throughout
2.45 – 3.35
Individual Sessions, Projects & Proposals (Case Study Room 16)
3.35
Close
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Centre Information
Established in 1999, the Centre’s staff and students seek to understand medical ideas, practices, and institutions in
their broad social and cultural contexts, and to utilise and develop intellectual tools to engage with the many
challenges faced by medicine both historically and in contemporary society.
Employing historical, literary, ethnographic, and social science methodologies;
 We ask questions about how medicine works, the basis of its authority, and what ethical and moral questions
are involved in its practice.
 We investigate how the practice of medicine is related to wider intellectual, cultural, social, political, and
economic trends, to changes at a particular moment in history or at the present.
 We aim to contribute to the formation of new intellectual agendas and perspectives around the history of
medicine.
 We aspire to reach beyond academic life and engage with the local community and the public at large over
contemporary medical and scientific concerns, and to do so in creative and innovative ways.
The interests of faculty and student span classical to contemporary periods and embrace local, national, and global
concerns. Supported by a second Wellcome Trust Strategic Award with the title, ‘Situating Medicine: New
Directions in the History of Medicine’ (£812k over five years) since 2008, our research and teaching particularly
engages with the following areas: social and cultural history of medicine, public and occupational health, mental
illness, medical technologies, history of psychology, psychiatry and the neurosciences, historical epistemology,
history of anatomy and disease, colonial and postcolonial medicine, gender and the medical sciences, health and
ethnicity, and environmental history.
Centre Academic Staff
Dr Roberta Bivins
Specialism: Medicine, ethnicity and immigration in the late 20th century; domestic medical technologies; post-war
medical research and healthcare delivery patterns in the UK and USA.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/people/staff/robertabivins
Professor David Hardiman (Director)
Specialism: South Asia during the British colonial period; Indian nationalism; history of subordinate groups;
environmental history; medical missionaries; healing practices of Indian adivasis.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/people/staff/david
Dr Sarah Hodges
Specialism: Modern South Asian history; gender history; history of modern science and medicine; history of
international development http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/people/staff/sarah
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Professor Hilary Marland
Specialism: History of psychiatry; migration and mental illness; the health of adolescent girls; household medicine;
midwifery and childbirth; medical practice in the nineteenth century.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/people/staff/hilary
Dr Claudia Stein
Specialism: Medicine and science in early modern Germany (1500-1800); enlightenment science and medicine,
strategies of biopower (1800-today); visual culture and medicine (1500-today); the history of epistemology .
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/people/staff/claudia
Dr Mathew Thomson
Specialism: 19th and 20th century British history; history of social policy; psychology and eugenics.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/people/staff/mathew
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Postdoctoral & Student Research Topics
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr Katherine Angel
History of female sexual problems in the UK and the US; 1960 to the present.
Dr Angela Davis
Pre-school childcare in Britain: 1939-1979
Dr Laura King
Public Engagement: Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord? Fatherhood and Childbirth in Britain from the
1950s to Present
Dr Sarah York
Public Engagement: War, Memory, Trauma
Student Researchers
Emily Andrews – PhD
"Senility before Alzheimer": Old Age Mental Health in British Medicine, Politics and Culture, 1845-1914.
Anna Bosanquet – MPhil/PhD
Creating Knowledge, Evolving Practice: 18th-century Midwives and Man-midwives
Sarah Jane Bodell – MA in the History of Medicine
David Beck – PhD
Thoroughly English: County Natural History in England, c. 1660-1720.
Thomas Bray – MPhil/PhD
Translators of the Welfare State: Boundaries, Knowledge and Intervention in English Social Work, 1936-1970
Jennifer Crane – MA in the History of Medicine
The Construction and Control of Evacuee Experience by Government and Psychiatrists in Britain, 1939-2000
Josette Duncan –PhD
Charity, institutions and dominion in British colonial Cyprus, Malta and the Ionian Islands (1800-1914).
Dan Ellin – MPhil/PhD
The Many Behind the Few: The Emotions of Erks and WAAFs of RAF Bomber Command 1939 -1945
Jane Hand - MPhil/PhD
'You are What You Eat': Chronic Disease, Consumerism and Health Education in Post-war Britain
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Tessa Johnson – MA in the History of Medicine
Louise Laxton – MA in the History of Medicine
Anne Moeller –PhD
The Economics of Philanthropy: Halle Pietism and the Medical Trade to India
Martin Moore –PhD
Chronicity in the Twentieth Century: Diabetes in Post-War Britain
Josh Moulding – MPhil/PhD
Hungry for Health: Protein Deficiency, Biopolitical Citizenship and International Health in Guatemala, 19491977.
Orla Mulrooney– MPhil/PhD
Sun and Surgery: History of Medical Tourism c1976-2011 – Case study of Indian ‘High-Tech’ Hospitals.
Harriet Palfreyman – PhD
Visualizing Venereal Disease in London, c.1780 - 1860.
Claire Sewell – MPhil/PhD
The Carer Movement: Mental Illness, Disability and the Family in Post-War Britain
Emma Thornton – MA in the History of Medicine
Darshi Thoradeniya – PHD
Women's Health and Body in Post Independent Sri Lanka.
Greg Wells – PhD
John Hall's little book of cures: a new translation (c. 1622-1635)
Rebecca Williams – PhD
'The Khanna Study: Population and Development in India, 1953-1969'
Jane Winter – MA in the History of Medicine
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