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PROFESSOR VIVIAN NUTTON: HONONARY PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY AND CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

The Department of History, Department of Classics and Ancient History, with the Centre for the History of Medicine, are delighted to announce Professor Vivian Nutton as an Honorary Professor.

Vivian Nutton was for ten years a Fellow in Classics at Selwyn College Cambridge, teaching ancient history , before moving in 1977 to UCL and the then Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine. He remained there until his retirement in 2009, heading the Academic Unit from 1996 to 2000. A Fellow of the British Academy, the Academia Europaea, and the German Academy of Science, he has written extensively on all aspects of the history of medicine from Classical Antiquity to the seventeenth century. Galen of Pergamum (129-216) has been at the centre of his interests, ever since his edition of On prognosis (1979). His editio princeps of On my own opinions appeared in 1999, and that of On problematical movements in 2011. His annotated translation of Avoiding distress is scheduled to appear in 2012. He has published a major edition and translation of the renaissance doctor Girolamo Mercuriale’s De arte gymnastica (2008), as well as important studies of renaissance plague and civic physicians. 2012 should see his analysis of the newly discovered notes and drawings of Andreas Vesalius for a never published third edition of his De humani corporis fabrica (1543, 1555), the most famous of all books on anatomy. He is also preparing a revision of his 2004 Ancient medicine, as well as the introduction to a volume of medical papyri from Oxyrhynchus.

The Wellcome Trust currently allocates one Quota Award to the MA in the History of Medicine annually, plus the opportunity to apply for Pool Awards. The Centre for the History of Medicine will be awarding a minimum of two £10,000 bursaries from its Strategic Award for 2012-2013. Undergraduates interested in the MA are encouraged to contact the Centre for more information.

Current Funding Deadlines and Information

Please be advised that the information below is based on current deadlines noted from the Wellcome Trust and may be subject to change.

The deadlines below are based on internal and external procedural timelines and should you wish to apply to the Wellcome Trust Masters Studentship and Centre for the History of Medicine (CHM) Strategic Pool Award, we would advise you please contact the Centre for the History of Medicine Administrator; Mrs Tracy Horton via T.Horton@warwick.ac.uk in the first instance.

Please be advised that the Wellcome Trust Masters Studentship and CHM Strategic Award Pool Awards will be considered together.

MA Fellowships (and Strategic Award Pool)

-CHM Deadline for Preliminary Masters Applications: changed to 12 noon 3 February 2012

-Nominee for the competition to Wellcome will be invited: 8 February 2012

Strategic Award Pool nominees notified.

-Wellcome Nomination - CHM and Research Support Services Final Application Deadline = 27 February 2012

-Wellcome Masters Studentship Final Application Deadline = 1 March 2012

CHM applications should include:

• a brief CV with details of the UG degree held or being undertaken
• details of the research proposed (maximum of one page)
• a letter of support from a current academic sponsor

The Centre for the History of Medicine would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to a new book published by Irish Academic Press, What Else Could I Do?: Single Mothers and Infanticide, Ireland 1900-1950 by a previous Warwick associate Clíona Rattigan, a case-by-case analysis of over 300 infanticide cases tried in Ireland, North and South, between 1900 and 1950.

May we offer our congratulations to Clíona on this piece.

Should you wish to contact us with any queries as to this publication please email T.Horton@warwick.ac.uk