School of History, Philosophy and Culture

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  • Centre for Medical Humanities

    The Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH) was established in late 2014/early 2015. It builds and expands on the work of the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present in new directions. First and foremost, it aims to promote world-leading interdisciplinary research and actively engage with new academic and non-academic audiences. Second, it strives to encourage a fresh collaborative partnership across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the University more broadly. Third, it brings together historians of medicine and scholars with interests in medical humanities from History, Philosophy, Social and Life Sciences as well as Anthropology and Religion. Finally, it seeks to explore new opportunities for extending its current academic network and establish new ones. To this end, CMH will endeavour to communicate more effectively with similar institutions, nationally and globally, and thus to provide new and innovative solutions to a wide range of issues in medical humanities.

    This new strategy is needed to move beyond the limited field of history of medicine and to position the Centre’s interrelated research in medical humanities within a new institutional framework, which fosters interdisciplinary and innovative scholarship. In seeking to achieve its short- and long-term goals, the CMH will continue to offer a high quality academic environment aiming to increase its international profile, along with its ability to secure substantial funding, not only for established scholars but also for graduate students and early career researchers.

    Current areas of research

    • Eugenics and the control of reproduction
    • Motherhood, family and children
    • Sexuality, domesticity and gender
    • Pregnancy, Abortion and Maternal bodies
    • Forensic medicine and crime
    • Drug treatment, hospitals and cancer chemotherapy
    • Race, immigration and multiculturalism
    • Risk, Governance and Society
    • History of Psychiatry in Asia and History of Alcohol

    • Members

      Dr Andrea Bernardi

       Senior Lecturer, Employment and Organization Studies
      Phone: +44 (0) 1865 485958 | Email: abernardi@brookes.ac.uk | Location: Headington, Clerici 1.27

      Ms Chara Bakalis

       Principal Lecturer in Law
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 484679 | Email: cbakalis@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Tamsin Barber

       Senior Lecturer in Sociology
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 484177 | Email: t.barber@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Carina Bartleet

       Senior Lecturer in Drama
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 484977 | Email: c.e.bartleet@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Victoria Browne

       Senior Lecturer in Politics
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 482865 | Email: vbrowne@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Katharine Craik

       Research Lead and Reader in Early Modern Literature (1500-1750)
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 484299 | Email: kcraik@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Tom Crook

       Senior Lecturer in Modern British History
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 484246 | Email: tcrook@brookes.ac.uk | Location: Tonge Building, T532

      Dr Jason Danely

       Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Japan
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 483975 | Email: jdanely@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Professor Helen Dawes

       Director Centre for Movement, Occupational and Rehabilitation Sciences

      Dr Elizabeth Darling

       Reader in Architectural History
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 483164 | Email: edarling@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Jennifer Diggins

       Senior Lecturer in Social/Cultural Anthropology
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 484011 | Email: j.diggins@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Alysa Levene

       Reader in History
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 483570 | Email: alevene@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Tina Managhan

       Senior Lecturer in International Relations
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 484131 | Email: tmanaghan@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Professor Tina Miller

       Professor of Sociology
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 483764 | Email: tamiller@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Professor Glen O'Hara

       Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 484166 | Email: glen.ohara@brookes.ac.uk | Location: Tonge Building, T535

      Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw

       Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 483686 | Email: jane.stevens-crawshaw@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Viviane Quirke

       Senior Lecturer in Modern History and History of Medicine
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 483706 | Email: vquirke@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Katherine Watson

       Reader in History
      Phone: +44 (0)1865 483709 | Email: kwatson@brookes.ac.uk | Location:

      Dr Alexandra Trott

       Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory, Undergraduate Subject Coordinator for Fine Art
      Phone: | Email: atrott@brookes.ac.uk | Location: Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Hill Campus

    • Senior research affiliates

      • John Hall
      • Anne Digby
      • John Perkins
      • Maria Sophia Quine
      • Annie Skinner
      • Maria Turri

      Research fellows

      • Jane Freebody
      • Tudor Georgescu
      • Patrick T. Merricks

      Visiting fellows

      PhD students

      • Ross Brooks, Evolution’s Closet: The New Biology and Homosexuality in Britain, 1900–1976
      • Cosmin Koszor Codrea, The Word of Science: The Romanian Reception of Darwinism, 1859–1918
      • Jane Freebody, What did they do all day? Patient occupation, psychiatry and society in France and England, 1920–1940
      • Mark Galt, The Plurality of Prevention: Medical Superintendents and the Practices of Compulsory Sterilization in California State Institutions, 1909–1960
      • Sarah Waters, Melancholia Past and Present: Renaissance History of Women’s Melancholia through Archival, Literary, and Dramatic Sources

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