News at the Centre for the History of Medicine
Hilary Marland a guest on BBC 'In Our Time'
Professor Hilary Marland, CHM Director, was a guest on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' programme last week. With host Melvyn Bragg and guests Justin Champion (Professor of the History of Early Modern Ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London) and Jonathan Andrews (Reader in the History of Psychiatry at Newcastle University), she discussed the early years of Bedlam, the name commonly used for the London hospital of St Mary of Bethlehem outside Bishopsgate.
The programme is available on BBC iPlayer here, with further information and a reading list.