News at the Centre for the History of Medicine
CHM student Jenny Crane visits Yale
Second year doctoral student Jenny Crane has won a 'Warwick Transatlantic Fellowship' from the Humanities Research Centre at Warwick (see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/events/wtf/
for details of the scheme). This has enabled her to make a two-week visit to Yale University to pursue her researches and make contact with fellow students and academic staff in the US. You can read a report of her visit on CHM's Student Researcher Activities pages here.
Healing with water: new publication by CHM Associate Dr Jane Adams
HEALING WITH WATER: ENGLISH SPAS AND THE WATER CURE 1840-1960 (Manchester University Press, 2015) Dr Jane Adams
We are delighted to announce the publication of Healing with water: English spas and the water cure 1840-1960. This is a major research output from the project ‘Healing cultures, medicine and the therapeutic uses of water in the English Midlands, 1840-1948’, led by Professor Hilary Marland at the Centre for the History of Medicine and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
The study provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It argues that demand for healing rather than leisure drove the growth of a number of inland resorts which became renowned for expertise and treatment facilities, aspects that were actively marketed to patients and doctors. The book explores ideas about water’s healing potential and the varied ways it was used to maintain good health and treat a variety of illnesses. Water cures were endorsed by both orthodox and unorthodox practitioners and attracted growing numbers of patients into the twentieth century. The book assesses the influence of spas and hydropathic centres on broader patterns of resort development, leisure and sociability in Britain and considers why support for spa treatment from the National Health Service declined from the 1960s.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/research_teaching/healingcultures/
Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at CHM
The Warwick University History Department seeks to appoint a one-year, full-time, postdoctoral Research Fellow as part of the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, ‘The Cultural History of the NHS’, a collaborative project between Principal Investigators Roberta Bivins and Mathew Thomson of CHM.
The project runs for 5 years, and a full-time Research Fellow is sought for 1 year commencing after 1 March 2015. The postholder will be based at Warwick, and should expect both to travel for research and to attend regular team meetings on campus.
Fixed term contract for 1 year.
Closing date: 15 Feb 2015
Interview date: Last week of February 2015