News at the Centre for the History of Medicine
Dr Clare Anderson (Sociology) published in 'A Cultural History of the Human Body'
Congratulations to Dr Clare Anderson (Sociology and affiliated member of the CHM) for her recently published chapter on the history of tattooing for Vol. 5.
A Cultural History of the Human Body
Volumes 1-6
A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object.
Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters:
1. Birth and Death
2. Health and Disease
3. Sex & Sexuality
4. Medical Knowledge and Technology
5. Popular Beliefs
6. Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal
7. Marked Bodies I: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability and Disease
8. Marked Bodies II: the Bestial, the Divine and the Natural
9. Cultural Representations of the Body
10. The Self and Society
Dr Katherine Angel published in Current Opinion in Psychiatry
"The History of 'Female Sexual Dysfunction' as a Mental Disorder in the 20th Century", recently published in 'Current Opinion in Psychiatry' vol 23 (6), November 2010.