Research Grants awarded

Details of grants awarded by the Medical humanities funding programme.

University Awards

Dr Barbara Zipser (2010)
Royal Holloway, University of London
Studies in Theophanes Chrysobalantes de curatione.

Dr R Yoeli-Tlalim (2009)
Department of History, Goldsmiths College, London
Re-Orienting Early Medicine: Bridges of Knowledge between east and west.

Dr A Homei (2008)
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Family planning, health promotion and global medicine, 1945-1995: the activities of Japanese health campaigners around the world.

Dr A Mold (2008)
Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Constructing the patient consumer: patient groups and health consumerism, 1960-1991.

Dr J B Reinarz (2007)
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham
Medical education in provincial England, 1800-1948.

Dr R Hayward (2007)
Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Psychiatric Epidemiology and the Pursuit of Serenity in Modern Britain

Dr J S C Rocca (2007)
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter
Interpreting Nature’s Design: Argument and analysis in Galen’s teleological construction of the body

Dr H Ebrahimnejad (2006)
Department of History, University of Southampton
Hospitals and the Development of Modern Medicine in Iran from the Early 19th Century until the Beginning of the Second World War

Dr G L Davis (2006)
School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh
The Social, Medical and Political Response to Infertility in Later 20th-century Scotland (1950-1990)

Dr P Chakrabarti (2005)
School of History, University of Kent at Canterbury
Laboratory Medical Research in Colonial India, 1890-1950

Dr P Pormann (2005)
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick
Medicine and Society in 10th-Century Baghdad: Between Greek theory and Islamic practice

Dr T McHugh (2004)
School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
Rural Medical Charity and Society in Brittany, 1598-1789

Dr R Elliot (2004)
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow
Smoking and Health in Germany from Occupation to Reunification (1945-1995)

Research Fellowships

Dr Sarah Walters (2011)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
African historical demography using parish registers.

Dr Hannah Newton (2011)
University of Cambridge
‘Better by Degrees’: Recovery from Illness in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720.

Dr Mingji Cuomu (2011)
University of Oxford
Textual Initiation in Tibetan medical education.

Dr Niki Vermeulen (2011)
University of Manchester
The Emergence of Systems Biology.

Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle (2010)
University of York
The Medical Category ‘Bites and Punctures’ in Latin Medical Literature in the 13th-14th centuries.

Dr David Leith (2010)
University of Cambridge
The Fragments of Asclepiades of Bithynia.

Dr Rohan Deb Roy (2010)
University of Cambridge
Imperial Insects: British Empire, Knowledge Networks and the Making of Medical Entomology, 1790-1920.

Dr Katherine Foxhall (2010)
King’s College London
Envisioning Migraine and the Migraineur , c.1873 2004.

Dr Katherine Angel (2010)
University of Warwick
A Contemporary History of Female Sexual Dysfunction, 1960 to the present.

Dr Ali Haggett (2010)
University of Exeter
Health and Masculinity in Post War Britain.

Dr Valerie E Harrington (2010)
University of Manchester
Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The History of a Modern Epidemic.

Dr Elaine Leong (2010)
University of Cambridge
Reading and Writing Medicine in Early Modern England.

Dr Jessica Meyer (2010)
University of Leeds
Medical Care and Masculinity in the First World War.

Dr Ulrike Steinert (2010)
University College London
Gynaecology in the Medical Texts of Ancient Mesopotamia from the 1st Millennium BC.

Dr Nandini S Bhattacharya (2010)
University of Leicester
A Coming of Age Story: A History of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry, 1905-1966.

Dr Peter Joosse (2009)
University of Warwick
‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi’s Commentary on Hippocrates Prognosticon: Edition, Translation, and Study.

Dr Jennifer Rampling (2009)
University of Cambridge
Medicine and the Making of English Alchemy, 1300-1700.

Dr Christelle Rabier (2009)
London School of Economics & Political Science
The Consumption of Medical Services in Paris, c.1650-c.1750.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris (2009)
University College London
The Rise of the Surgeon in Restoration London: Richard Wiseman and his Contemporaries.

Dr E L Jones (2009)
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Mean, Moody and Monthly’: women, medicine and premenstrual syndrome in twentieth-century Britain.

Dr N Kaoukji (2009)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Reading and writing the prolongation of life.

Mr M Smith (2009)
Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
One Person’s Food is Another’s Poison: Food Allergy in the Twentieth Century.

Ms D Berdah (2009)
Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College London
Between therapy, prevention and growth enhancement: veterinary antibiotics and intensive farming in France and Britain, 1945-1970.

Mr S Mishra (2009)
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
Disease, famines and livestock: peasant economy and veterinary health in Colonial North India, 1860-1940.

Dr J G Kennaway (2009)
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University
Pathological sounds: the history of music as a threat to the nerves.

Dr M Saad (2009)
Department of History, Queen Mary, University Of London
Reinventing social welfare in post-revolutionary France: the Recueil Duquesnoy (1799-1804).

Dr L M V Totelin (2009)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
What’s in a name? Authorship and authority in the transmission of medicinal recipes from Hippocrates to Galen.

Dr C Pilsworth (2009)
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Between the mountains and the sea: the transmission and use of medical miscellanies in the trans-Alpine regions in the early middle ages.

Dr F De Sio (2008)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London
A model of the brain. Cephalopod nervous system as a model for the study of the physiological bases of learning and memory.

Dr R G W Kirk (2008)
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Managing morals: animal experiment and animal welfare in Britain c.1947-1986.

Mr K Price (2008)
Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Oxford Brookes University
Voices of the sick poor: the patients’ experience of medical negligence under the New Poor Law.

Dr S M Clarke (2008)
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
Using tropical resources to make medical products: colonial products research c.1935-1965.

Dr Elma Brenner (2008)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Leprosy and society in Rouen, c.1100-c.1500.

Dr H Powell (2008)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
The hagiography of healing: miracle narratives as discourses on disease and disability.

Dr D Wujastyk (2007)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London
Medicine in the land of spices: Keralan Ayurveda and early modern globalisation.

Dr M Jones (2007)
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
A catalyst for change: health care in the British West Indies and its impact on imperial policy, c.1860-1960.

Dr Y Eraso (2007)
School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
Public and Philanthropic Initiatives in the Fight Against Female Cancer in Argentina, 1920-1960

Dr I Scherder (2007)
School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
The Impact of the Anatomy Act in Ireland: Trainee doctors, body supply networks, and the nature of medical professionalisation in Ireland, 1832 to 1921

Dr M F Brown (2007)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
Medical Societies and the Making of the Medical Profession in the North of England, c.1780-c.1870

Dr C C L Petit (2007)
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Manchester
Galen’s Greek: Language, rhetoric and medical thought in the Roman Empire

Dr E Toon (2007)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
Making Screening Work: The smear, the mammogram and women’s Health in the UK, 1960-2000

Dr A Mold (2006)
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Constructing the Patient Consumer: Patient groups and health consumerism, 1960-1991

Dr D Wilson (2006)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
Bioethics and the Foetus: Representing and governing the British use of foetal tissue in vaccine production, 1960-1995

Dr J Anderson (2006)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
A Medical History of Blindness 1900-1948

Mr P B Mukharji (2006)
Department of History, University of Southampton
Negotiating ‘Science’ in ‘Traditional’ Indian Medicine in the Twentieth Century: The case of Bengali Ayurbed

Dr J Toms (2006)
Department of History, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick
Relationship Versus Authority: Psychiatric social work, therapeutic communities, and the subjectivity of the child, c.1930-c1970

Dr P Perez Canizares (2005)
School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle
Critical Edition (with Introduction, Translation and Commentary) of the Hippocratic Treatise De Affectionibus

Dr E C Spary (2005)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
Food as a Medical Object in Paris, 1670-1815

Ms L M V Totelin (2005)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
What’s in a name? - Authorship and Authority in the Transmission of Medicinal Recipes from ‘Hippocrates’ to ‘Galen’

Dr M Jones (2005)
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
A Catalyst for Change: Health care in the British West Indies and its impact on imperial policy, c.1860-1960

Mr R Ralley (2005)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Medical Times in England 1450-1550

Dr T Buklijas (2005)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
The Politics of Anatomy in Vienna, 1914-1945

Dr I McCleery (2005)
Department of Philosophy, University of Durham
Physicians of the Body and Physicians of the Soul: Medicine and religion in medieval Portugal

Dr C Mills (2005)
Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
Smokeless Zones: Respiratory health and the politics of clean air 1945-1975

Dr N Pemberton (2005)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
The Invention of Hearing Loss: Medicine, education and culture in Britain, 1900-1960

Dr D Haycock (2004)
Department of Economic History, London School of Economics
Proprietary Medicines and the Emerging Medical Market in England, c.1660-1740

Dr R Yoeli-Tlalim (2004)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
A Himalayan Melange: Exotic influences in the medical works of a 17th-century Tibetan scholar

Dr J Barton (2004)
Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Ancient Conceptions of Medical Skill

Dr P Dale (2004)
Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
The Medical Officer of Health and the Organisation of Health Visiting as a Comprehensive Community Health Service

Mr J Manton (2004)
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
Leprosy Control in Eastern Nigeria, 1926-1967

Dr I Sykes (2004)
Department of History, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick
Blindness, Sound and the Development of Acoustics in 19th-Century France

Mr G Attewell (2004)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
Situating the Body: Popular and institutional dimensions of Unani practice in India, c.1920-1970

Dr O Kahl (2004)
Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester
The Dispensatory of Ibn al-Tilmidh

Dr A Nuttall (2004)
Department of Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh
The Development of Maternity Care and the Continuing Medicalisation of Childbirth in Edinburgh in the Inter-War Period: A casenote-centred perspective

Dr A Mayer (2003)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
The Physiology and Pathology of Human Locomotion (1830-1918)

Dr A Woods (2003)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
The Veterinary Medicalisation of Bovine Reproduction, 1930-1960

Research Leave Awards

Dr Ian A Burney (2011)
University of Manchester
A History of Forensic Homicide Investigation in 20th-century England.

Professor Chantal Stebbings (2011)
University of Exeter
Tax and Quacks.

Prof Barbara Taylor (2011)
University of East London
The Death of the Asylum in Late Twentieth Century Britain.

Dr Lauren Kassell (2011)
University of Cambridge
Magic and Medicine in Early Modern England.

Dr Claire Brock (2011)
University of Leicester
Women Surgeons in Britain, 1860-1918.

Dr Fiona Helen Clark (2011)
Queen’s University of Belfast
Scratching below the surface: empire, authority, and venereal disease (Mexico City, 1789-1798).

Dr Angelique Richardson (2011)
University of Exeter
Thomas Hardy and Biology: Character, Culture and Environment, 1859-1928.

Dr Marion Turner (2010)
University of Oxford
Medical and Literary Language in the Late Fourteenth Century.

Prof Barry M Doyle (2010)
University of Huddersfield
The Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth Century Britain.

Dr Hilary Hinds (2010)
University of Lancaster
Twin Beds: From Hygienic Homes to Healthy Marriages, 1870-1970.

Dr Alison Williams (2010)
Swansea University
Francois Rabelais: Medical Humanist.

Professor David R Langslow (2010)
University of Manchester
The reworking of Greek medical texts in Latin in 6th-century Italy.

Professor John M Foot (2010)
University College London
Franco Basaglia and Mental Health Reform in Italy.1960-2009.

Dr Will Tuladhar-Douglas (2010)
University of Aberdeen
Newar traditional medicine: social and material networks, 1750-1980.

Professor D A Filtzer (2009)
School of Social Science, Media and Culture, University of East Anglia
Health, disease, and mortality on the Soviet home front during World War II.

Dr P Drinot (2009)
Department of History, University of Manchester
Venereal disease, prostitution and sexuality in Peru.

Dr E T Hurren (2009)
School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
Dying for English medicine: anatomy and its trade in the dead poor, circa 1832 to 1929.

Professor C Rawcliffe (2009)
School of History, University of East Anglia
Urban bodies: public health in medieval English towns c.1250-1530.

Dr M Barfoot (2009)
University of Edinburgh Library, University of Edinburgh
David Skae’s ‘Lectures on insanity’: text and context.

Dr C Smith (2008)
Department of History, University of Northampton
Representing the impact and cost of insanity: an examination of letters written to the Finance Committee of the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum 1850-1876.

Dr S J M M Alberti (2008)
Centre for Museology, University of Manchester
Bodies on display: pathological objects in nineteenth-century Britain.

Professor D Pick (2008)
History, Classics and Archaeology, Birckbeck College London
In pursuit of the Nazi mind: the deployment and development of psychoanalysis in the Allied struggle against Germany.

Dr H Barker (2007)
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
Medical advertising, trust and locality in late Georgian England.

Dr S Biernoff (2007)
School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College
The Corporeal Territories of War: Representing Disfigurement and Death in World War One Britain

Dr K D Watson (2007)
Department of History, Oxford Brookes University
Medicine and Justice: Medico-legal practice in England and Wales, 1700-1914

Professor A-H Maehle (2006)
Department of Philosophy, University of Durham
Medical Ethics in Imperial Germany

Dr M Harrison (2006)
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
The Medical Machine: British military medicine in the First World War

Dr P J Atkins (2005)
Department of Geography, University of Durham
Milk: Pure or Poisonous? The history of a key food and its health consequences, 1850-1960

Dr T Boon (2005)
Science Museum
To Formulate a Plan for Better Living: Paul Rotha and the definition of scientific documentary

Professor W Luckin (2005)
Department of Social History, Health, Social and Community Studies, University of Bolton
Hidden Victims? Road Traffic Accidents in Urban England, 1945-2000

Professor M Geller (2004)
Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London
Therapy in Ancient Mesopotamia

Mr J Stewart (2004)
School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
Child Guidance in Inter-War Britain: Adopting and adapting American psychiatry

Dr P Bartrip (2004)
Department of History, University College Northampton
Myxomatosis in Britain, 1953-1970s: Policies, practices, attitudes and impacts

Professor R Woods (2004)
Department of Geography, University of Liverpool
Fetal Health and Mortality in the Past

Professor G Jones (2003)
Department of History, University of Ulster at Jordanstown
Medical Migration to and from Ireland 1860-1960

Project grants

Prof Steven King (2010)
University of Leicester
Sickness, poverty and medical relief in England 1750-1851.

Dr Dilwyn Knox (2010)
University College London
Copernicus’s Library.

Prof Rosalie David (2009)
University of Manchester
Sir Grafton Elliot Smith and the Archaeological Survey of Nubia: their significance to the palaeopathological tradition.

Prof Joseph L Melling (2009)
University of Exeter
Mental illness and returning patient care in the early National Health Service: a comparative study of the admission and treatment of multiple-entry patients in English mental hospitals, c.1948-1970.

Dr L Kassell (2009)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Pilot Casebooks Project.

Dr S Muller-Wille (2009)
ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter
Rewriting the system of nature: Linnaeus’s use of writing technologies.

Dr S Cavallo (2009)
Department of History, University of London
Healthy homes, healthy bodies. Domestic culture and the prevention of disease in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy.

Dr G Smith (2009)
Dept of Health and Social Care, University of London
Five-day residential course in the oral history of medicine, health and illness.

Dr F Bound-Alberti (2009)
Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Skin Deep: Dermatology, Emotion and Disease.

Dr V G Scheid (2009)
School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster
Treating the Liver: Towards a Transnational History of Medicine in East Asia, 1500-2000.

Dr Z Kotowicz (2009)
Department of History, Goldsmiths College
Children in Bethlem in the nineteenth century.

Dr C Pilsworth (2009)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
I sign, therefore I am’: the occupational identity of doctors in Italian legal documents, c.900-1100 AD.

Dr A Crozier (2009)
Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde
Reappraising colonial healthcare: investigating the colonising communities of Kenya, c.1890-1963.

Dr A Sneddon (2009)
Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University of Ulster
The medical landscape of eighteenth-century Ulster.

Dr M Turda (2009)
School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
Romanian eugenics in its international context, 1918-1944.

Dr I A Burney (2009)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
The Beastly Science’: Bernard Spilsbury, Murder and Forensic Medicine.

Dr C Cox (2009)
School of History and Archives, University College Dublin
Madness, migration and the Irish in Lancashire, c.1850-1921.

Professor A D M Pettegree (2009)
Dept of Modern History, University of St Andrew’s
Medical publishing in the first age of print, 1460-1600.

Professor C Stebbings (2009)
School of Law, University of Exeter
Tax law, tax administration and medical practice 1780-1920: pilot project.

Professor M A Jackson (2009)
Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
Health and masculinity in postwar Britain.

Professor L T Weaver (2009)
Department of Child Health, University Of Glasgow
New history of Yorkhill.

Dr T Rütten (2009)
School of Historical Studies University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
The correspondence between Karl Sudhoff and Tibor Gyory (1898-1937).

Dr F Bound-Alberti (2008)
Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Emotions and the heart: the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of cardiac symptoms in Britain, 1768-1897.

Dr A R Cunningham (2008)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
The career of Aristotelian anatomy: Aristotle, Fabrici, Harvey.

Dr B M Doyle (2008)
School of Social Sciences and Law, University of Teesside
The Labour Party and health policy in Middlesborough, 1900-1950.

Dr J J Smyth (2008)
Department of History, University of Stirling
Hospital records and patient narratives.

Dr M P Thomson (2008)
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick
Medical history, immersive museum theatre, and ‘The Last Women’.

Professor S Swain (2008)
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University Of Warwick
Galen’s ‘Commentaries’ on Hippocrates’ ‘Epidemics’: edition and translation of the Arabic version of Books One and Two.

Professor M H Johnson (2008)
Department of Physiology, Development and Neurology, University Of Cambridge
History of mammalian development in the UK: 1945-present.

Professor J V Pickstone (2008)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
Reconfiguring biomedical sciences: preparation.

Professor M A Jackson (2008)
Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
Pilot project: a case study of the influenza pandemic 1889-90.

Professor T Insoll (2008)
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
The use of shrines for medicinal purposes in northern Ghana: an archaeological and analytical study.

Professor A M Rafferty (2008)
School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London
Nurses abroad: the Colonial Nursing Association, 1896-1966.

Dr D Healey (2008)
Department of History, Swansea University
Medicine in the Gulag Archipelago.

Professor A Digby (2008)
Centre for the History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University
Outreach at McCord Hospital, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, circa 1950-2000.

Professor M Harrison (2008)
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
Health and medicine in the nineteenth-century Navy.

Mr M Stevens (2007)
Reading, Berkshire
Berkshire Historic Mental Health Resources Project: Broadmoor Hospital.

Dr R Charlton (2007)
Department of History, University of Warwick
Towards a pre-history of palliative care: a pilot study centred on medical education and practice in Birmingham, c.1930-c.1970.

Dr M Barfoot (2007)
Edinburgh University Library
Preserving Edinburgh’s twentieth-century reproductive and sexual health case notes.

Ms S Convery (2007)
Historic Collections, University of Aberdeen
Preserving the early medical archives in the University of Aberdeen.

Dr A Grout (2007)
Special Collection Librarian, University of Edinburgh
Unlocking the MD: widening access to the University of Edinburgh MD theses, 1726-1930.

Mrs T Knight (2007)
The Library, Royal College of Surgeons of England
Securing the legacy of British surgical history: completing the online 19th century catalogue of printed collections at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Ms J Usher (2007)
Official Publications Unit, National Library of Scotland
The medical history of British India: a collection of official documents.

Ms J Hetherington (2007)
Oxford
Identifying and preserving the paper and electronic records of The Cochrane Collaboration - a scoping study of a distributed, not for profit, healthcare knowledge organisation.

Mr C C Webb (2007)
Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York
Treating the patients’ records: a preservation and conservation project for the Retreat Archive at the Borthwick Institute, University of York.

Mr P Harper (2007)
NCUACS, University of Bath
Cataloguing the archives of Professor Malcolm Ferguson-Smith FRS, medical geneticist.

Dr J Lagnado (2007)
One-year project to list the archives of the Biochemical Society to professional standards and to prepare an on-line catalogue of their contents.

Professor H J Cook (2007)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
The Sloane printed books project.

Professor J Hemingway (2007)
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool
Pilot survey of medical history archives at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Dr A Tanner (2007)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University
Proposal for support for a pilot project on nineteenth- and twentieth-century hospital admission and discharge registers.

Mr D Pearson (2007)
University of London Library
Cataloguing the British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Collection, held at Senate House Library, University of London.

Professor H Marland (2007)
Department of History, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick
Pulling the Plug? An Oral History of Spa Practices and Experiences at the Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa, in the Late 20th Century

Dr N Gonis (2007)
Department of Greek and Latin, University College London
New Medical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus

Mr P Horden (2007)
Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Byzantine Medical Manuals: Construction and use

Professor R M Smith (2007)
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Doctors, Deaths, Diagnoses and Data: A comparative study of the medical certification of cause of death in 19th-century Scotland

Mr R G Arnott (2006)
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham
Disease, Health and Medicine in Late Minoan Crete: A preliminary study

Professor S S Blume (2006)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Development and Introduction of Vaccines Against Infectious Diseases: MMR in the Netherlands, 1973-85

Professor A M Hardy (2006)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
Livingstone Online

Dr A J McIvor (2006)
Department of History, University of Strathclyde
and
Dr R Johnston
School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
On the periphery? Occupational Health and Industrial Medicine in the West of Scotland 1945-1980s

Dr L D Schwarz (2006)
School of Historical Studies, University of Birmingham
Death, Disease and the Environment: Contextualising individual causes of death in London, 1747-1825

Dr V A Harding (2006)
School of History, Birkbeck College
Housing Environments and Health in Early Modern London, 1550-1750

Professor David R Matthews (2006)
Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford
Oral History of Diabetes in the 20th Century: Experiences of patient care

Professor V Nutton (2006)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
The Greek Medical Papyri from Graeco/Roman Oxyrhynchus: An edition of 60 unpublished texts from a centre of learning and scholarship in middle Egypt

Professor P S Harper (2005)
Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Wales
Preserving the History of Human and Medical Genetics

Dr S Bhattacharya (2005)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
Diverse Conflicts, Multifaceted Victories: The control and eradication of smallpox in East Pakistan/Bangladesh, 1947-1977

Dr M Harrison (2005)
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
Military Hospitals and the Development of Modern Medicine in 19th-Century Iran

Dr H Marland (2005)
Department of History, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick
Healing Cultures, Medicine and the Therapeutic Uses of Water in the English Midlands, 1840-1948

Professor S King (2005)
School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
Sickness, Poverty and Medical Relief in England 1750-1851

Professor V Berridge (2004)
Department of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Medicalising Cannabis: Science, medicine and policy, 1960s–2003

Dr F Bound (2004)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
Emotions and the Heart: The diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of cardiac symptoms in Britain, 1768-1897

Dr A Cunningham (2004)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
The Career of Aristotelian Anatomy: Aristotle, Fabrici, Harvey

Dr H Marland (2004)
Department of History, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick
The Politics and Practices of Health in Work in Britain, 1915-1974

Dr E Jones (2004)
Department of Psychological Medicine, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, King’s College London
The Maudsley and the Construction of Mental Illness: A history, 1916-1948

Professor M Worboys (2004)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
Fungal Diseases and Modern Medicine: Mycology, aspergillosis and iatrogenic diseases

Dr I Burney (2004)
CHSTM, University of Manchester
Sport and Medicine in Britain, 1920-2000

Professor P Schofield (2004)
Faculty of Laws, University College London
Jeremy Bentham on Poverty, Pauperism, Public Health and Medicine

Professor J Wilkins (2004)
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter
A Translation and Commentary of Galen, ‘On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Medicines’, Books 1 and 5

Dr U Schmidt (2003)
School of History, University of Kent at Canterbury
‘Cold War at Porton Down’: Medical ethics and the legal dimension of Britain’s biological and chemical warfare programme, 1945-1989

Programme grants

Dr Sarah Alexandra Tarlow (2011)
University of Leicester
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse.

Prof Anne Borsay (2011)
Swansea University
Disability and Industrial Society: A Comparative Cultural History of British Coalfields, c.1780-1948.

Prof Michael R Worboys (2011)
University of Manchester
Pedigree Chums: Science, Medicine and the Remaking of the Dog in the Twentieth Century.

Prof Paul J Weindling (2011)
Oxford Brookes University
Disputed Bodies: Narratives of Medical Research in Europe, the 1940s-2001.

Professor Joanna Bourke (2010)
Birkbeck University of London
A History of Pain from the eighteenth century to the present.

Dr Abigail Woods (2010)
Imperial College London
One medicine? Investigating human and animal disease, c1850-2015.

Prof Michael R Worboys (2010)
University of Manchester
Before ‘Translational Medicine’: Bench-Clinic Relations since 1950.

Prof Mark Harrison (2010)
University of Oxford
From Sail to Steam: Health, Medicine and the Victorian Navy.

Dr Lauren Kassell (2009)
University of Cambridge
The Casebooks Project: Simon Forman and Richard Napier’s Medical Records, 1596-1634.

Prof P J van der Eijk (2009)
School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Towards a Galen in English.

Professor M A Jackson (2007)
Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
The History of Stress: Medical research and contested knowledge in the 20th century

International Collaborative Research Initiative grants

Professor P E Pormann (2009)
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick
The Arabic version of Galen’s ‘On the Affected Parts’: edition and study.

Dr M Gorsky (2007)
Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Posters and public health in twentieth century Poland.

Dr W Ernst (2006)
Department of History, University of Southampton
Colonial Medicine and Indigenous Health Practices in Southern and Eastern Princely States of India, c. 1880-1960

Professor A Digby (2004)
School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
Biomedicine and Society in a South African Context: Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, 1938-2003

Fellowships for clinicians and scientists

Dr Roger L Kneebone (2011)
Imperial College London
Using simulation to document the operating theatre as a social, material and educational space.

Dr I D Smith (2009)
Gartnaval Royal Hospital, Glasgow
Scottish Inebriate Reformatories, 1901-1925: The medical role in the response to the last alcohol epidemic.

Dr H R Guly (2008)
Head Office, Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust
Medicine during the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.

Professor D G Thompson (2008)
Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester
Forty years of gastrointestinal motility; scientific achievements and their impact on clinical practice.

Professor J T Macfarlane (2007)
Nottingham University, Hospitals NHS Trust
The Medical and Social History of Legionnaires’ Disease in Britain since 1977

Dr J M Moncrieff (2006)
North East London Mental Health NHS Trust, Mascalls Park Hospital
History of Development of Current Ideas about Disease Specific Action of Psychiatric Drugs

Dr M V Edwards (2006)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
Control and the Therapeutic Trial in 20th-Century Britain

Dr A W Beveridge (2005)
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow
Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man: The early writings of RD Laing

Professor J T Macfarlane (2004)
Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust
Acute Bronchitis: An exploration of diagnosis and management in the 1950s

Dr C Hilton (2003)
Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust
Felix Post: A biographical Study

Public engagement awards

Dr T Betteridge (2009)
Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Oxford Brookes University
Medicine, birth and death at the Tudor court.

Mr A Chater (2009)
Adams Trainor Media, London
Creation of a video-rich interactive web resource for Timelines TV on the history of smallpox, aimed primarily at teachers/KS4 students taking ‘Medicine through Time’ for GCSE History.

Miss J Hyland (2009)
Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham
Visualising human health and medicine throughout history; using ‘medical’ effects make-up as a tool.

Professor S Howell (2009)
Endocrine Physiology King’s College London
Developing a detailed proposal for the pilot phase of the Guy’s Medical Heritage Centre.

Mr J Hardy (2008)
Hardy Pictures Ltd., St Margaret’s
Pandemic.

Ms C Greenaway (2008)
Cheltenham Festivals, Cheltenha
Writers and remedies.

Mr J Matthews (2006)
Seneca Productions
Bedlam: A history of Bethlem Hospital

Dr T Tansey (2006)
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
Today’s Neuroscience, Tomorrow’s History: A video archive and outreach project

Mr J Hardy (2006)
Hardy and Sons Ltd, c/o Bray Film Studios
The Relief of Belsen

Dr E Silber (2005)
Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow
William Hunter: Man, medic and collector

Wellcome Trust-POST Fellowships in Medical Humanities

Ms Natalie Banner (2011)
King’s College London
Recovery in Mental Health and the Notion of Well-being.

Indian Programme Awards

Prof Sanjeev Jain (2011)
National Institute of Mental Health & Neuroscience, India
Turning the Pages: exploring the history of psychiatry in India.

Dr Guy Attewell (2011)
French Institute Pondicherry, India
Health practices, resources and governance in the margins of the state.

Dr John Lourdusamy (2011)
Indian Institute of Technology
Medical Ideas, Tools, Ethics and Pluralism in South India.

Prof Suranjan Das (2011)
University of Calcutta
Western Medicine and Indigenous Society: History of Disease, Medicine and Public Health Policy in Colonial Eastern India, 1757- 1947.