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Congratulations to Martin Moore, History PhD student (CHM), on receiving a commendation at the 2012 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research Students (WATEPGR).

The Warwick Centre for the History of Medicine project: 'Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord? Fatherhood and Childbirth in Britain, 1950s to present' convened by Dr Laura King has endeavoured to bring together the public, arts and academia in a series of events.

A film has been produced showcasing this project and features the theatre production 'Our Fathers', by Babakas, performed at the Warwick Arts Centre on 12th and 13th June 2012, panel discussions which followed these performances, and poetry readings at the Coventry Mysteries festival on 16th June 2012. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/outreach/hiding_in_the_pub/video

This project was generously supported by the Wellcome Trust, via the Centre's Strategic Award: Situating Medicine; New Directions in the History of Medicine.

Dr Roberta Bivins' article published in Social History of Medicine: Coming 'Home' to (post)Colonial Medicine: Treating Tropical Bodies in Post-War Britain

Social History of Medicine 2012; doi: 10.1093/shm/hks058

Abstract: While investment and popular enthusiasm have fuelled significant growth in the history of medicine since the 1980s, it remains by some metrics well outside of the historical mainstream. Yet developments in the history of medicine could offer traction to historians more generally. Through its close critical attention to power, embodiment and hegemonic institutions and knowledges, the history of medicine also presents a unique perspective from which to interrogate ‘postcolonialism’. Here, post-war British examples demonstrate the potential of a medical and postcolonial lens for historians exploring policy making, immigration or identity. In this period, civil servants, biomedical researchers, policy makers, and publics including migrants actively shaped medical and governmental responses to an apparently novel phenomenon: the mass migration to Britain of its former tropical subjects. Postcolonial analysis uncovers new models of community, and highlights the importance of the late twentieth-century and the post-imperial city as sites of historiographic and theoretical development.

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http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/hks058?
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