Funding: War medicine
2 June 2006
Dr Mark Harrison, Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford, has been awarded funds to produce a book on British military medicine in World War I. Dr Harrison's book 'Medicine and Victory: British military medicine in World War Two' won the 2004 Templer Medal Book Prize, an annual award made by the Society for Army Historical Research.
History of medicine grants have also been awarded to Professor Vivian Nutton, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (The Greek medical papyri from Graeco/Roman Oxyrhynchus: an edition of 60 unpublished texts from a centre of learning and scholarship in middle Egypt) and to Dr Martin Edwards, who received a Research Leave Award for Clinicians and Scientists to study 'Control and the therapeutic trial in 20th-century Britain'.
