Centre for the History of Medicine
The Centre for the History of Medicine at Warwick is a lively, interdisciplinary community of scholars and students engaged in research and teaching in the history of medicine, the life sciences and public health.
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Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord? Fatherhood and Childbirth from 1950s to Present
Laura King commences a one year Strategic Award Public Engagement Fellowship (with support from the Wellcome Trust) and will be organising events that link to her research (Recent PhD topic: 'Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, c.1918-1960').
Events and Project Details are launched on our new website: Read more...
Call for participants! We need parents - of any age - to tell us about their experiences of childbirth!
Medicine, Technology and the Household in Modern Britain
Dr Roberta Bivins, Professor Hilary Marland, Dr Claire Jones
The project investigates transformations in healing activities in the home in the 19th and 20th centuries, exploring the ways in which the household adapted and expanded as a bastion of health management, self-care and therapeutic decision-making, and challenging the assumption that the home declined in importance as a therapeutic space following an early modern heyday. Read more...
IDEA Workshop
A new trans-disciplinary collaboration dedicated to improving and promoting high quality research on ethnicity and health. Read more...
Doctoral Studentship
Department of History (Centre for the History of Medicine)
The Centre for the History of Medicine is delighted to advertise a Home/EU fees only equivalent Doctoral Studentship in the field of the History of Medicine in the Modern period. Read more
