News at the Centre for the History of Medicine
Forthcoming book - Dr Claire Jones - Associate Member
Dr Claire Jones' forthcoming book, The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870–1914 will be published October 2013 as part of Pickering and Chatto's popular series, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, and looks at the development of the medical trade catalogue and its role in the changing nature of medical professionalism. The author examines the use of the catalogue in connecting the previously separate worlds of medicine and commerce and discusses its importance to the study of print history more widely.
Christopher Lawrence, University College London says, ‘Jones’s exciting study vastly expands our understandings of the modern medical profession by locating much of its growth and shape in the late Victorian and Edwardian commercial world.’
For more information please see web: http://www.pickeringchatto.com/titles/1707-9781848934436-medical-trade-catalogue-in-britain-1870-1914
IDEA Symposium Videos - Dr Roberta Bivins
Videos from the IDEA Symposium: From Research to Action, a public event convened by Dr Roberta Bivins are now available online: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/research_teaching/research/idea/ideasymposium2013/videos.
Our thanks to all those who made the event a success.
For more information on the IDEA Collaboration, please see our web: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/research_teaching/research/idea
Special thanks to Roger Lindley (IT Services) for filming and editing.
Dr Angela Davis - History and Policy Paper
History & Policy has just published a new policy paper & opinion article by Dr Angela Davis of Warwick University, exploring the history of NHS maternity services and the campaigns to improve them, and promote women’s choices and human rights in childbirth.
'Something should be done': campaigns for choice and human rights in childbirth - 23 May 2013
Despite over 50 years of campaigning for improvements to NHS maternity services, media reports suggest that they are struggling to cope with demand, while new campaign groups call for women's choices and human rights in childbirth to be respected. In a new H&P policy paper and opinion article, Angela Davis of Warwick University puts these concerns in historical perspective, arguing that women's calls for both choice and safety need not be in conflict.
Read Angela Davis' policy paper: Choice, policy and practice in maternity care since 1948
Read her opinion piece: 'Something should be done': campaigns for choice and human rights in childbirth