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History Centre for the History of Medicine

Current Research Projects

Research Culture forms an important part of the Centre, covering a specialist range of subjects and interests relating to the academic strengths in the History of Medicine at Warwick.

Prisoners in yard
Prisoners, Medical Care & Entitlement to Health in England & Ireland, 1850-2000
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The Cultural History of the NHS
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Jewish Mothers & Jewish Babies. A study of motherhood in England & Israel since 1948

Ministry of Labour medical certificate, courtesy of TNA

Sick Note Britain: Public and Medical Certification since the Second World War

Ugandan mothers

Women & the Spread & Adaptation of Biomedical Knowledge in Uganda, 1897-1979

Being Human

Being Human: Medicine and the Human Sciences
Motherhome
Motherhood in Britain, c. 1945-2000

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IDEA: Improving the Delivery of Ethically Appropriate Research, Services and Policy
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Pre-school Childcare, 1939-1979

Early Spa

Healing Cultures, Medicine & the Therapeutic Uses of Water in the Midlands, 1840-1948

Household Medicine

Household Medicine in Early Modern England

Please see the People - Current Student Researchers page to see the research topics of our current students.