History of medicine
This cluster is closely identified with Centre for the History of Medicine, the major institutional venue in Scotland for the study of the history of medicine. It also includes other members of the School working on the epidemiology of plague and the history of science. The core research areas of the Centre are:
- The modern history of the medical and nursing professions
- Obstetrics and child health
- Technology and medicine in the 20th century
- Scottish medical history
Other research interests can be accomodated and the Centre is developing a focus on the history of old age and the end of the life course.
The Centre offers a M.Litt/M.Sc. programme with funded places, sponsors Wellcome and ESRC-funded research students and postdoctoral fellows and hosts a regular seminar and workshop series, an annual conference, and other scholarly events. The Centre has been awarded 'Group' status by the Wellcome Trust and received a major Wellcome enhancement award in 2004. Members of this cluster collaborate with the nearby Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Royal College of Nursing, and the curators of the Greater Glasgow Health Board archives held by the University's Archives Services.
Staff and Research Interests
Prospective postgraduate students are invited to contact members of this cluster to discuss your research interests.
| Professor Sam Cohn | History of the plague; history of medieval public health |
| Professor Anne Crowther | Social history of medicine in Britain, 18th-20th centuries; history of crime and social policy in Britain, 19th-20th centuries |
| Professor Marguerite Dupree | Social history of medicine in 19th-20th centuries; family, urban and demographic history |
| Dr. Rosemary Elliot | Medical and social history in the 20th century; gender and oral history; history of addiction |
| Dr. Sean Johnston | Emergence of new professions, disciplines and technical occupations; ethics; epistomology; scientific instruments |
| Dr. Malcolm Nicolson | Director, Centre for the History of Medicine; Postgraduate Convenor, Dept of Economic and Social History; History of 19th and 20th century biomedical science; history of diagnostic practice |