News at the Centre for the History of Medicine
John Christie - New Associate Member of the CHM
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The Centre is pleased to announce that John Christie will now be joining the Centre as an Associate Member. John R. R. Christie, spent much of his career (1973-2006) in the Division of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, teaching history of science, medicine and technology, and additional courses in the departments of History, Philosophy and English. He is now a member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, and in 2010 was a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, John recently hosted a very successful History of Medicine Research Seminar, 'Agonism and Emulation: Medical Student Cultures in C18th. Edinburgh' and is an active member of the Centre community. The Centre is delighted to continue working with John and looks forward to future collaborations. |
Dr Elfed Huw Price - New Associate Member of the CHM
The Centre is pleased to announce that Dr Elfed Huw Price will now be joining the Centre as an Associate Member.
Elfed Huw Price is a historian of medicine with interests in neuroscience. From 1998 to 2006 Dr Price was based at the University of Oxford. In his doctoral thesis, “The Emergence of the Doctrine of the ‘Sentient Brain’ in Britain, 1650-1850,” he explored the reasons for the rise of brain-based theories of mind to the status of mainstream medical orthodoxy. After a year working on the ILA Global Project for the History of Leprosy, and a semester lecturing on the History of Medicine at the University of Southampton, Dr Price joined Oxford University Press in 2008, where he is now Publisher responsible for 26 Social Sciences, Linguistics and Philosophy journals. He continues to pursue his own work during the twilight hours and his current research focuses on the theories of mind and body expounded by the Victorian polymath, George Henry Lewes.
The Centre is delighted to welcome Huw and looks forward to future collaboration.
Dr Claire Jones - New Associate Member of the CHM
The Centre is pleased to announce that Dr Claire Jones will now be joining the Centre as an Associate Member having previous worked as a research assistant within the department.
Dr Claire Jones is currently Learning and Access Officer at the University of Worcester, where she is working on HLF funded project to establish a permanent exhibition of health and medicine. The exhibition, due to open in July 2012, will be housed in Worcester's former eighteenth century hospital and will be accompanied by a wide range of events, conferences and workshops relating to the history of medicine and wellbeing. Claire also continues her Warwick research on contraception and the relationship between medicine and commerce.
The Centre is delighted to continue working with Claire and looks forward to future collaboration.