News at the Centre for the History of Medicine
‘Born in the Asylum: Insanity of Pregnancy and Unwed Mothers around 1900’
Read Professor Hilary Marland's new blog 'Born in the Asylum: Insanity of Pregnancy and Unwed Mothers around 1900'
This research is part of The Last Taboo of Motherhood? project, funded by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award (2021-24), which draws on a rich variety of sources to explore the history of maternal mental illness in twentieth-century Britain.
'...the law is illogical and unjust’: The Problems with the Infanticide Act 1922
Dr Kelly-Ann Couzens latest blog from the 'Last Taboo of Motherhood' project explores the problems with the Infanticide Act 1922 and discussions with the medico-legal community about potential reform to the legislation.
'Women and Mental Illness in Post-War Britain' Workshop Summary
An in-person workshop was held on 13-14 April 2023 at the University of Warwick, co-organised by Fabiola Creed and Hilary Marland.
Generously funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Centre for the History of Medicine at Warwick and Warwick’s Global Research Priority Health, and prompted by our Wellcome funded project ‘The Last Taboo of Motherhood’, this workshop explored changes in understanding, diagnosing and responding to women’s mental illnesses in post-Second World War Britain.
Read a summary of the workshop here.Link opens in a new window