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Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Annual WELLCOME UNIT FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11 Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine 45-47 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6PE Tel: +44 (0)1865 274600 Fax: +44 (0)1865 274605 Email: [email protected] Website: www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk Cover picture: Wellcome Library, London Henry Addington, Lord Sidmouth, holding a bottle of medicine. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1807 CONTENTS Page Staff and Students 1 Introduction 4 Unit Library 5 Teaching, Events and Seminars 7 Individual Entries 12 Work Published and in Press 27 Conferences/Workshops 30 STAFF AND STUDENTS The staff of the Unit during 2010-2011 were: Director and Professor of the History of Medicine Mark Harrison, BSc (Hons), MA, DPhil, FRHistS Deputy Director and University Lecturer in the History of Medicine Sloan Mahone, BA, MS, MSc, DPhil University Lecturer in the History of Medicine Erica Charters, BHum, MA, DPhil ESRC Research Fellow Karen Brown, BA, DPhil Wellcome Trust Research Fellow Sanchari Dutta, BA, DPhil Wellcome Trust Research Fellow Saurabh Mishra, BA (Hons), MA, MPhil, MSc, DPhil Research Assistant Richard Biddle, BA, MA, PhD Research Assistant Vaughan Dutton, BSocSci (SA), BSocSci (Hons-psychology, SA), MSocSci (Psychology, SA), DPhil Research Assistant Timothy McEvoy, BA, MA, PhD Unit Secretary Belinda Michaelides Librarian-in-Charge Shona McLean, BA (Hons), MA, PGDip Library Assistant Bethan Jenkins, BA (Hons), MSt, DPhil 1 Senior Research Associates: William Beinart, MA, PhD Robin Briggs, MA, FRHistS Laurence Brockliss, MA, PhD Donald Chambers, PhD Robert Fox, MA, DPhil, FSA Peregrine Horden, MA Jane Humphries, MS, PhD John Landers, MA, PhD Margaret Pelling, MA, MLitt, LittD, FRHistS Emilie Savage-Smith, BA, MA, PhD Robert Snow, BSc, MSc, PhD Research Associates: Peter Barham, MA, PhD (Camb), PhD (Durham), CPsychol, FBPsS Karen Brown, BA (Hons), DPhil Eric Gruber von Arni, RRC, PhD, FRHistS Margaret Jones, BA, MA, PhD John Manton, MA, MLIS, MSc, DPhil Huw Price, MSc, DPhil Anne Marie Rafferty, BSc, MPhil, PhD Jo Robertson, BA (Hons), MA, PhD (Australia) Anna Marie Roos, PhD, MH, BA Ulf Schmidt, BA, MA, DPhil John Senior, MA, DPhil John Stewart, BA (Hons), MPhil, FRHS, AcSS Helen Sweet, BA, MA, PhD Honorary Associates: Jeffrey Aronson, MBChB, FRCP, MA, DPhil Irvine Loudon, DM, BM, BCh, FRGCP, DRCOG, RE Charles Webster, BSc, MA, MSc, DSc 2 Management Advisory Committee: Chair: John Darwin, MA, DPhil Representatives of the Medical Sciences Board: Nicholas Athanasou, MA (MB, BS, MD Sydney; PhD Lond), MRCP, FRCPath Huw Dorkins, MA, BM, BCh, (MSc London), MRCP (UK), FRCPath Representative of the Faculty of History: Pietro Corsi, DPhil Faramerz Dabhoiwala, MA, DPhil, FRHS Green College Observer: Elisabeth Hsu, PhD Students: Doctoral Students of the Unit during 2010-2011: Seyma Afacan Christian Andreas Fabiano Ardigo Graham Baker Marisa Benoit Rhian Crompton Shannon Delorme Jed Foland Madeline Fowler Elizabeth Hunter Stanislaw Kachnowski Shin Kim Ashley Mathisen Yonina Murciano-Goroff Yolana Pringle Mathew Savelli Kathleen Vongsathorn Aelwen Wetherby Harry Wu MSc/MPhil Students of the Unit during 2010-2011: Suzanne Hollman Britta Jewell Brian Krohn Neasa McGarrigle Karishma Nanhu Elana Rakoff Marystella Ramirez Guerra Kate Robson David Roukema Tulsi Roy David Rueger 3 INTRODUCTION Oxford also played host to a Medical History Workshop for Postgraduate During this academic year, we had Students, entitled ‘Sick of Being the great pleasure of welcoming Sick’. This two-day conference, three new members of staff to the which was held in the History Unit – Drs Richard Biddle, Vaughan Faculty, was organized by one of Dutton and Tim McEvoy – all of the Unit’s DPhil students, Kathleen whom began research on the Vongsathorn. It was well attended Wellcome Trust Programme Grant and received positive feedback. ‘From Sail to Steam: Health, The Unit’s termly seminars also Medicine and the Victorian Navy’. proved very popular and on many Later in the year, the same grant occasions were full to overflowing. also allowed us to appoint Dr Elise Smith, who will be engaged as a As usual, staff and students at the research and teaching fellow from Wellcome Unit, and their associates, October 2011. This project will were active in giving papers at entail collaboration between conferences and seminars around scholars based at the Wellcome the world and produced many Unit and Professor Laurence published works, including Brockliss, of Magdalen College, monographs. Several students also Professor Michael Moss, of the completed their doctoral theses and University of Glasgow, Dr John were successfully examined. Cardwell of Cambridge University, Congratulations are due to Yonina the National Maritime Museum and Murciano-Goroff, Ashley Mathisen the Institute for Naval Medicine. and Graham Baker on the The award of this grant will enable successful examination of their us to open up a badly neglected doctoral work. As well as their area of nineteenth-century history of research activities, students and medicine and to demonstrate the staff continued to make an important importance of health to contribution to teaching in the understanding the Navy’s role in History Faculty, African Studies, policing the British Empire. Development Studies and Medicine. There was also much activity relating to the Wellcome Trust’s Enhancement Award, granted in 2009, for a programme of research on ‘Health, Disease and Medicine in Global Perspective’. As well as the work of individual researchers, the grant allowed us to host a conference entitled ‘Re-thinking the History of Health, Disease and Medicine from a Global Perspective’, organized jointly with Johns Hopkins University. This conference was extremely successful and will be followed by a similar event at Johns Hopkins. 4 UNIT LIBRARY economique et sociale, Revue d’histoire moderne et Staff changes: Shona McLean contemporaine & Encyclopedia resigned from the position of Britannica) would be removed from Librarian-in-charge of the Unit the collection in the Seminar Room Library during summer 2011, with (although the 2 French journals effect from 2 September. The HFL would be retained by the Director will provide cover until a new elsewhere in the Unit). This will free appointment can start. up space in the Seminar Room for more journals and also for any items Visits to the Wellcome Library: of stock that are awaiting disposal While the Wellcome Library is open from the main library. to Unit staff and students there were also 91 recorded visits to the User education: Wellcome Unit Library by non-Unit Ms McLean undertook several user members. Of these, 73 were made education duties during the year. by members of Oxford University, These included manning a History and 18 were made by external of Science and Medicine stall at readers from the wider community. both the Graduate Information Fair and the Undergraduate Thesis Fair, Orders: running the induction session for Between October 2010 and new Wellcome members and giving September 2011, 93 new books several one-to-one sessions. Ms were ordered, received and invoiced McLean also ran the Research using Blackwell’s Collection Forum in week 6 of Michaelmas Manager. Of the received items 13 term which introduced the students were student or academic requests. to the range of resources and tools 5 donations were also added to available to them. stock. 4 items were ordered A trip to the Wellcome Library in separately from online booksellers, London took place on December 3rd and 2 items were purchased from 2011. In total 4 students, together the Blackwells shop in person. A with the librarian, took the trip and collection of around 80 books was all found it a very useful introduction also received by the library from the to the library's collections. office of the late Dr Joan Austoker in February 2011. These have still to Changes in the Library: be sorted through. The new Wellcome Unit Library website went live in March 2011. It Journals: now follows the Bodleian Libraries’ There is only one current journal model and is much more extensive being paid for by the History Faculty than the previous webpage. Library – Nursing History Review. Accompanying it, are a number of This has been renewed for 2011- other applications to keep people 2012. All other journals received by updated with news, events and new the Unit Library are donations. resources: a Blog, a Twitter page, a Following a review of the journal Delicious page for bookmarked collection and after discussion with websites and a LibraryThing the department it was agreed that 3 account for new books. These have journal runs (Annales d’histoire helped promote the library and 5 formed links with other HSMT The process of reclassifying the institutions particularly in the UK and library stock using the Library of US. Traffic is increasing for all sites Congress Classification scheme – particularly popular are the new continued during the year. The vast book blog posts and the Recent majority had been reclassified by Acquisitions page on the website the end of Michaelmas Term 2010 which also now includes a page and there are now just over 1,000 detailing new HSMT books in the left with old shelf marks. These are Bodleian and the HFL. now at the end of the sequence and The Wellcome Unit buildings have contained in the Resources Room. undergone full electrical rewiring work this year with the main library Future objectives: rooms completed in summer To continue the 2011. This has led to improved reclassification project in the lighting in the library spaces and the library. installation of floor boxes, providing To finish assessing the more power sockets and data points Reserve stock and to dispose for readers and staff and removing of it accordingly. the problems of trailing cables. To assess recent donations Although advantageous, the work that have arrived in the Unit. did lead to some disruption including To start work on assessing the closure of the library for 6 weeks the manuscript collection from the end of July until the start of prior to any library move and September.
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