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Traumatised Minds: Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1971-1953

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:41:00 GMT

The call for papers is out for Dr Anna Toropova's Cultures of Trauma Workshop, 8-9 May 2025. More information and to apply here.

She is also recruiting for a Research Fellow for a 2-year fixed term contract, starting 1 September 2025. Apply here

Find out more about the Traumatised Minds: Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1971-1953 research project here.

CHM seeks Public Engagement Officer for 'Prisoners' project

Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:47:33 GMT

The University of Warwick is recruiting for a Public Engagement Officer on the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award Project, ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850–2000‘, led by Principal Investigators Professor Hilary Marland (CHM, University of Warwick) and Dr Catherine Cox (UCD CHOMI).

This post will be based at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick. It is a 24 month, part-time (40% FTE) position commencing as soon as possible after 9 January 2017.

Applications close 1 December 2016.

For further details and to apply see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AVG898/public-engagement-officer-78714-106

or here (University of Warwick HR site)

CHM seeks Research Fellow for 'Prisoners' project

Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:00:30 GMT

CHM invites applications for a Research Fellow for the project 'Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000'.

The Research Fellow will conduct a specified programme of research on ‘Women, Health and Maternity in the English and Irish Criminal Justice Systems’, involving independent and collaborative historical research in archives and libraries in England and Ireland, along lines agreed with the project’s PIs. The Research Fellow will also advance and organise public outreach activities central to the project. The post will be based at the Centre for the History of Medicine (CHM), University of Warwick, and supervised by Professor Marland. This is a 3-year post, funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Full details here

Closing date for applications: 6th September 2016

Interviews: second half of September

Proposed start date: 01 January 2017

Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at CHM

Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:57:21 GMT

The Warwick University History Department seeks to appoint a one-year, full-time, postdoctoral Research Fellow as part of the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, ‘The Cultural History of the NHS’, a collaborative project between Principal Investigators Roberta Bivins and Mathew Thomson of CHM.

The project runs for 5 years, and a full-time Research Fellow is sought for 1 year commencing after 1 March 2015. The postholder will be based at Warwick, and should expect both to travel for research and to attend regular team meetings on campus.

Fixed term contract for 1 year.

Closing date: 15 Feb 2015
Interview date: Last week of February 2015

Please follow the link for full details:

https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5062452&ownertype=fair&jcode=1451527&vt_template=1457&adminview=1

John Christie - New Associate Member of the CHM

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:04:19 GMT

The Centre is pleased to announce that John Christie will now be joining the Centre as an Associate Member.

John R. R. Christie, spent much of his career (1973-2006) in the Division of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, teaching history of science, medicine and technology, and additional courses in the departments of History, Philosophy and English. He is now a member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, and in 2010 was a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin. His early research was on the socio-politiical, institutional and intellectual history of science and medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment. Latterly he has returned to Enlightenment studies, working on the place of science and medicine in English Enlightened Dissent (Joseph Priestley, John Jebb et.al.), on medico-chemical theories of animal heat in C18th. Scotland, and on what happens to the Scottish medico-chemical curriculum in the Atlantic world, as it is developed and altered in late colonial and revolutionary America.

John recently hosted a very successful History of Medicine Research Seminar, 'Agonism and Emulation: Medical Student Cultures in C18th. Edinburgh' and is an active member of the Centre community. The Centre is delighted to continue working with John and looks forward to future collaborations.

Dr Elfed Huw Price - New Associate Member of the CHM

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:06:16 GMT

The Centre is pleased to announce that Dr Elfed Huw Price will now be joining the Centre as an Associate Member.

Elfed Huw Price is a historian of medicine with interests in neuroscience. From 1998 to 2006 Dr Price was based at the University of Oxford. In his doctoral thesis, “The Emergence of the Doctrine of the ‘Sentient Brain’ in Britain, 1650-1850,” he explored the reasons for the rise of brain-based theories of mind to the status of mainstream medical orthodoxy. After a year working on the ILA Global Project for the History of Leprosy, and a semester lecturing on the History of Medicine at the University of Southampton, Dr Price joined Oxford University Press in 2008, where he is now Publisher responsible for 26 Social Sciences, Linguistics and Philosophy journals. He continues to pursue his own work during the twilight hours and his current research focuses on the theories of mind and body expounded by the Victorian polymath, George Henry Lewes.

The Centre is delighted to welcome Huw and looks forward to future collaboration.

Dr Claire Jones - New Associate Member of the CHM

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:05:18 GMT

The Centre is pleased to announce that Dr Claire Jones will now be joining the Centre as an Associate Member having previous worked as a research assistant within the department.

Dr Claire Jones is currently Learning and Access Officer at the University of Worcester, where she is working on HLF funded project to establish a permanent exhibition of health and medicine. The exhibition, due to open in July 2012, will be housed in Worcester's former eighteenth century hospital and will be accompanied by a wide range of events, conferences and workshops relating to the history of medicine and wellbeing. Claire also continues her Warwick research on contraception and the relationship between medicine and commerce.

The Centre is delighted to continue working with Claire and looks forward to future collaboration.

David Wright - New Associate Member of the CHM

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:04:03 GMT

The Centre is pleased to announce that the former Honorary Fellow, Professor David Wright will now be joining the Centre as a new Associate Member.

David Wright has been appointed Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health Policy at McGill University in Montreal. At McGill, David will continue to explore his two areas of primary research interest: the history of mental hospitals in the nineteenth-century British World and, secondly, the globalization of health human resources in the second half of the twentieth century.

The Centre is delighted to continue working with David and looks forward to future collaboration.

Job Advertisement - Wellcome Trust University Award Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:00:01 GMT

https://secure.admin.warwick.ac.uk/webjobs/jobs/academic/job9124.html

Job Advertisement - Research Fellow in the History of Medicine

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:59:51 GMT