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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
Born in the NHS badge
The Cultural History of the NHS
'The recording room'. One speech therapist holds a microphone to a boy reading a magazine, while another operates the magnetic reel-to-reel tape (1950s).

The Child's Speech: speech therapy, stammering and activism in Britain, c.1906-2000

A surgical operation to reconstruct a patient’s anterior cruciate ligament. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1996. Wellcome Images

‘Hazardous Hospitals: Cultures of Safety in the NHS”

Ministry of Labour medical certificate, courtesy of TNA

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

Baby
Jewish Mothers & Jewish Babies. A study of motherhood in England & Israel since 1948
Motherhome
Motherhood in Britain, c. 1945-2000

Being Human

Being Human: Medicine and the Human Sciences

Ugandan mothers

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

Early Spa

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

Household Medicine

Household Medicine in Early Modern England
Pre-school childcare
Pre-school Childcare, 1939-1979