CHM News

In September 2024, CHM celebrated its 25 year Anniversary. It was wonderful to gather the CHM community, past and present, together to celebrate this milestone. You can read all about it here.

Congratulations to:

• Hilary Marland on her retirement. Read about her reflections on CHM.
• Samir Hamdoud on his successful Viva.
• Claire Shaw, who had a baby boy, Philip Anthony, in November 2024. Both Mum and baby are doing well!
• Dr Hannah Elizabeth, one of our postdoctoral Fellows, has just published their chapter,'“Low Risk Doesn’t Mean No Risk”: The Making of Lesbian Safer-Sex and the Creation of New (S)experts in the Late Twentieth Century', an exciting piece of work informed by and begun during their time with us here at CHM!
• Meg Boatemaa Asare, former CHM MA student, on her successful research project: Let's End Period Poverty Ghana

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CHM Events

We have an exciting programme of events planned for this term and more details about them can be found on our Research Events page

• Tuesday, 21 January 2025, 11am, Work in Progress: Andrew Burchell (Uppsala University), "Enacting (chronic) diseases: rheumatic and diabetic organisations in mid-century Britain"
• Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 4pm, Joint Research Seminar with French Studies and History of Art: Hannah Halliwell (University of Edinburgh)
• Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 11am, Work in Progress: Sophie Mann (Warwick University),“Practices and Objects of ‘Double Care’ in the Early Modern Household”
• Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 4:30pm,Research Seminar: Michael Sappol (Visiting Researcher, University of Uppsala),‘Queer Anatomies: Perverse desire and aesthetics in the anatomical image 1600-1860; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet’
• Tuesday 4 March 2025, 11am, Research Seminar: Laura King (University of Leeds),'Living with the Dead: Graves, Names and Telling Family Stories in Modern Britain’

We also have some events arranged for later in the year which you may want to put in your diaries. Further details will be provided nearer the time.

• Thu, 8 - Fri, 9 May 2025, Workshop: Cultures of Trauma in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Anna Toropova
• Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 12pm, Work in Progress: Caitjan Gainty (Kings College London)
• Thursday, 5 June 2025, 3pm, Work in Progress: Caroline Rusterholz (Geneva Graduate Institute)

CHM Research

We welcomed two Research Fellows to the Centre for the History of Medicine this year:

• Dr Anna Toropova and her project: Traumatised Minds: Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1971-1953 (Wellcome Trust Career Development Award)
• Dr Lynsey Cullen and her project: Almoners, patients and the formation of medical social work in London, 1895-1948.

We also welcomed two new PhD students: Mackenzie Moffat and Joseph Price.