Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Advance
Researchers at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine often use local history to enrich their work. Michael Brown is studying the medical profession in Victorian Britain, and in Neil Pemberton's and Michael Worboys' book on rabies - Mad Dogs and Englishmen - they showed the Lancastrian experience of the disease and explored local connections with international centres, such as the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Researchers also work on national and international issues, such as Rob Kirk's study of changing practices around the welfare of laboratory animals, Elizabeth Toon's study of health screening in Britain, a recently completed study that compared the development of hip replacement surgery in Britain and the USA, Lyn Schumaker's work on the history of the health of mine workers in Zambia, and Katherine Foxhall's research on the health of migrants.
John Pickstone and Carsten Timmermann lead the Trust-funded project on Constructing Cancers - 1945-2000 , which explored the development of medical knowledge, technologies, services and public responses from 1945. In 2009, the project worked with past and present cancer patients, and their families, to record experiences of cancer treatment, using pictures as well as words. This work contributes to public dialogue and policy on cancer treatment, and complements the strong tradition of cancer research and therapy at the University of Manchester Medical School.
Key publications
- Michael Worboys, '"The Wright Way": The Production and Standardisation of Therapeutic Vaccines in Britain, 1902-1913', in C. Gradmann and J. Simon, eds., Standardisation, Palgrave, 2010, 153-73.
- Robert G W Kirk, 'A Brave New Animal for a Brave New World: The British Laboratory Animals Bureau and the Constitution of International Standards of Laboratory Animal Production and Use, circa 1947-1968', Isis, 2010, 101 (1), 62-94.
- Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys, eds., Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease, McGill, 2010.
- Emma Jones and Stephanie Snow, Against all odds? The recent history of BME health service workers in and around Manchester, 1948-2000. Lancaster: Carnegie, 2010.
- Duncan Wilson, 'Nobody's Thing? Human Tissue in Science, Ethics and Law during the late 20th Century', in I. Gold and C. Kelly, eds., Lawyer's Medicine: The Legislature, The Courts and Medical Practice, 1760-2000, Oxford; Hart, 2009, 197-218.
- Robert G W Kirk, 'Between the Clinic and the Laboratory: Ethology and Pharmacology in the Work of Michael Robin Alexander Chance, c.1946-1964', Medical History, 2009, 53: 513-36.
- Lyn Schumaker and Virginia Bond, 'Antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: Colours, 'spoiling', 'talk' and the meaning of antiretrovirals', Social Science Medicine, 2008 67(12): 2126-34.
- Helen K. Valier and Carsten Timmermann, 'Clinical Trials and the Reorganisation of Medical Research in PostWorld War II Britain'. Medical History, 2008; 52:493510.
- Duncan Wilson, Reconfiguring biological sciences in the late twentieth century: a study of the university of Manchester. Manchester: Manchester University Press; 2008.
- Emma L. Jones and John V. Pickstone, The Quest for Public Health in Manchester. The Industrial City, the NHS and Recent History, Lancaster: Carnegie Press, 2008.
- Julie Anderson, Francis Neary and John V. Pickstone, Surgeons, manufacturers and patients: a transatlantic history of total hip replacement. Basingstoke: Palgrave; 2007.
- Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys, Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave; 2007.
- Ian Burney, Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination. Manchester: Manchester University Press; 2006.
- Cancer in the twentieth century. Special issue of Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2007; 81(1).
- Michael Worboys et al. Fractured states: smallpox, public health and vaccination policy in British India, 1800-1947. London: Sangam; 2005.
