WELLCOME UNIT FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11

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Cover picture: Wellcome Library, London Henry Addington, Lord Sidmouth, holding a bottle of medicine. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1807 CONTENTS

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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. Alternative services to carry out any preservation were offered to readers during the work necessary. library closure including taking  To further review the Journal books up to the HFL and using the collection. Bodleian's Just-in-time service for  To work in liaison with the sourcing alternative copies. History Librarian and other Substantial progress was made on colleagues on the formation clearing the library rooms and of a Collection Development librarian's office of reserve policy for History of Medicine. stock, miscellaneous collections and old files before the rewiring work took place. Another 40 books were sent to other libraries and individuals across Oxford, 3 runs of journals were donated to the Bodleian and 5 boxes (c. 100 books) were delivered to the Oxfam bookshop in July. A substantial number of unwanted serials that were available elsewhere (c. 10 boxes) were also taken away for recycling. In addition, the filing cabinet of Charles Webster offprints was decanted by Margaret Pelling and taken away.

6 TEACHING, EVENTS and SEMINARS

TEACHING

The following graduate students studied the History of Medicine within the MSc or MPhil in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology in 2010-2011, and were supervised by members and associates of the Unit:

STUDENT (COLLEGE) SUPERVISOR Suzanne Hollman (Wolfson) Dr S Mahone Britta Jewell (Green Templeton)* Prof M Harrison Brian Krohn (Keble) Prof P Corsi Neasa McGarrigle (Green Templeton) Dr S Mahone Karishma Nanhu (St Antony’s) Prof M Harrison Elana Rakoff (St Anne’s) Prof M Harrison Marystella Ramirez-Guerra (St Anne’s)* Prof P Corsi Kate Robson (Christ Church) Prof M Harrison David Roukema (Green Templeton) Prof M Harrison Tulsi Roy (Hertford) Prof P Corsi & Dr J Bennett David Rueger (Linacre) Prof P Corsi

The following postgraduate students preparing DPhil theses in the history of medicine in the Unit have been supervised by members of the Unit and its associates, and were based at the Unit during 2010-2011 (*Wellcome Trust funded):

Student (College) Working Title Supervisor(s) Seyma Afacan Late Ottoman Medical Discourses Prof M Harrison (St Antony’s) on Female Health Dr S Mahone

Christian Andreas* The Impact and Management of the Prof W Beinart (St Antony’s) Epizootics of Lungsickness and African Horsesickness in the Cape c.1853-57

Fabiano Ardigo Scientific Research in Brazil during Prof P Corsi (Kellogg) the 1940s

Graham Baker* Religious and Secular Welfare Work Prof P Corsi (Balliol) and Thought: London and New York 1865 – 1940

7 Marisa Benoit Comparing Attitudes toward Infertility Dr E Charters (Christ Church) in Early Modern England and Dr M Pelling Colonial New England

Rhian Crompton Similarities and disparities in health Prof M Harrison (St Hilda’s) policies across the British Empire, 1872-1914

Shannon Delorme Studying women’s role in Prof P Corsi (New) popularising natural sciences in England and France through a contents analysis of elementary science textbooks

Jed Foland The body through the lens: re- Dr J Bennett (Wolfson) enacting Enlightenment Prof P Corsi investigations of microscopic anatomy

Madeline Fowler Colony and Empire: Cholera Prof M Harrison (Green Templeton) Epidemics in Nineteenth-century Canada and Britain

Stanislaw Kachnowski Medical Technology in Post-colonial Prof M Harrison (Green Templeton) India: 1947-1991

Ashley Mathisen Subject to the Care of the State: the Dr M Pelling (Linacre) Social and Political Status of Children's Health and the Development of Medicine for Children in the Eighteenth Century

Yonina Murciano-Goroff* Negotiating Competing Agendas: Prof M Harrison (Magdalen) Collaborations between International Health Organisations and their National Counterparts in the Fight against Cancer, 1925-1975

Yolana Pringle* Heathen sufferings: the Church Dr S Mahone (Jesus) Missionary Society and mental ill- health at Mengo Hospital, Uganda, 1897-1944

Mathew Savelli Minorities as Patients and Dr S Mahone (St Antony’s) Practitioners in Yugoslavia's Prof R Caplan Psychiatric System, 1945-1991

8 Kathleen Vongsathorn* Community and social space in Dr S Mahone (Green Templeton) Uganda’s twentieth-century leprosy institutions

Aelwen Wetherby American Medical Relief in China Prof M Harrison (Balliol) and Spain in the 1930s

Harry Wu Trauma displaced: the Dr S Mahone (Queens) contextualisation of psychological Dr K Gerth trauma in a non-western setting, 1945-1995

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EVENTS Geoffrey Hudson, Northern Ontario School of Medicine Ripping off the Disabled? A Whistle- blower Extraordinaire and the CONFERENCES Rapacious Elite of Eighteenth-century Britain 17 June 2011 Postgraduate Workshop Stanislaw Kachnowski, University of Transfer of status presentations Oxford Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, The History of Medical Technology in University of Oxford Post-Colonial India: 1947 to 1991 [PRS Presentation] 26-27 September 2011 Re-thinking the History of Health, Kathleen Vongsathorn, University of Disease and Medicine in Global Oxford Perspective “Things that Matter”: Missionaries and 2-day Conference in collaboration the Creation of Leprosy Settlements as with the Johns Hopkins University, Microcosms of “Civilization” in Uganda USA [PRS Presentation] Osler-McGovern Centre, 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford Mark Harrison, University of Oxford Yellow Fever and the International 15-16 September 2011 Economy, c.1850-c.1920 “Sick of Being Sick”, Medical History Workshop for Harry Wu, University of Oxford Postgraduate Students Mental Consequence: Constructing 2-day Conference bringing together Trauma Psychiatry in Post-war Taiwan postgraduates in the history of [PRS Presentation] medicine from across the UK to share their research Madeline Fowler, University of Oxford Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, The Port Towns of British North University of Oxford America: Cholera, Communication and Trade in Nineteenth-century Canada [PRS Presentation]

SEMINARS David Haycock, University of Oxford Pills, Bills and Elixirs: Making and The Unit organised the following Selling Irregular Medicines in London, seminars and research forums 1650 to 1720 during the academic year: Conrad Keating, University of Oxford Michaelmas Term 2010 Richard Doll: From Political to Medical ‘Disease, Health and Medicine since Revolutionary 1650’ Conveners: Professor Mark Harrison Hilary Term 2011 and Dr Saurabh Mishra ‘Local and Global Perspectives in the History of Medicine’ Convener: Dr Sloan Mahone

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Anna Maerker, Oxford Brookes Saurabh Mishra, University of Oxford University Branded and Marked: Animal Toys for Boys: Anatomical Models, Vaccination, Experimentation and Medical Expertise and Masculinity in Breeding in Colonial India, 1850-1900 Late 18th-century Vienna Sarah Toulalan, University of Exeter Verkijika Fanso, University of Examining Bodies: Diagnosing Child Yaounde Sexual Abuse in Early Modern England Scientific and Traditional Medicines in the Bamenda Grassfields, Claudia Stein, Warwick University Cameroon: Contact, Conflict and Seeing Jesuits: The Bavarian-Saxon Collaboration Kidney Stone Affair from 1580

Jennifer Johnson, Princeton Erica Wald, London School of University Economics The doctor is the true conqueror, the Military Bodies and Public Health: The peaceful conqueror: The SAS, 1955- Emergence of the Dispensary and 1962 Bazaar Hospital in the mid-19th century

Carrie Hamilton, Roehampton Julie Anderson, University of Kent University Morbid Fears: Giants and Anatomists Narrating AIDS in Cuba: Oral History between Myth and Memory Matthew Neufeld, University of Warwick Constructing, certifying and contesting Sloan Mahone, University of Oxford disability in England: the rise and fall of Female Circumcision in the History the King’s maimed pensioners, 1660- of Medicine and Anthropology 1690

Robert Perrins, Acadia University Imag(in)ing Death and Disease: Japanese Photographic Representations of the Manchurian Pneumonic Plague Outbreak of 1910-1911

Powel Kazanjian, University of Michigan The HIV Epidemic in Historic Perspective

Paulo Drinot, University of Manchester The Venerealization of Peru, c.1900- 1950

Trinity Term 2011 ‘Unruly Bodies’ Convener: Dr Erica Charters

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INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES an influence on the constitution of local research programmes. During this first year, Mr Ardigo has concentrated on SEYMA AFACAN, DPhil Student gathering primary sources about three Miss Afacan has completed her first specific topics that will allow him to year as a DPhil student in the history carry out this comparative analysis. of medicine under the supervision of These three topics consisted of Professor Mark Harrison and Dr technologies – the DDT pesticide, Sloan Mahone. Her thesis focuses screening tests for Brucellosis and on the first intellectual accounts of Bovine tuberculosis, and the BCG modern psychology in the late Vaccine – which were all being Ottoman Empire with respect to the introduced at that point in both towns notions of modernity, religion and under study. These technologies were biological materialism. She works on also similar to the extent that they were the ways in which Ottoman equally related to social problems materialists employed biological and demanding short-term solutions and mechanistic approaches towards the constant monitoring from local scientific understanding of human psychology communities. Having to act, and launched the concept of mind researchers then interacted with peers training. She has presented a paper and society on many levels, and this on Dr Abdullah Cevdet (1869-1932), process of interaction, and sometimes an influential Ottoman materialist, as selection, has been studied in some part of her PRS requirements. During detail. the summer she has done her research trip to Turkey and worked in GRAHAM BAKER, DPhil Student the archives. Mr Baker submitted his DPhil thesis, which examined the relationship FABIANO ARDIGÓ, MPhil Student between religious missionary groups in Mr Ardigo completed the first year of Britain and the United States c. 1865- his DPhil in the History of Science 1940, on 7 October 2011. He is grateful under the supervision of Professor to the Wellcome Trust for funding this Pietro Corsi. His thesis focuses on project, and to the Economic History the ways in which patterns of Society, the German Historical Institute, communication shaped the Society for the Social History of epidemiological and entomological Medicine and to Balliol College for research within the southern region further financial assistance with of Brazil, between 1935 and 1965. research expenses and conference Drawing his methodology from attendance. comparative history, Mr Ardigo has examined how scientists, located in During this year Mr Baker presented his Curitiba and Porto Alegre, interacted work as part of the ‘Disease, Health with local and outside peers, and and Medicine since 1750’ seminar with society in general. By comparing series in Oxford, and to a group of the practices, axes of influence and visiting students from the United States discourses related to these at Wycliffe Hall. interactions, Mr Ardigo has been able to identify the distinctive ways in In addition to his DPhil work, Mr Baker which patterns of communication had continued to work with an international

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group of scholars based in Paris rule’ (India, African colonies, & the West examining European and North Indies). It builds on his previous work American philanthropy in the but also breaks new ground. Writing for nineteenth century. At present Mr a general readership, he hopes to show Baker is constructing a database of how mental health considerations are the London-based charities and their integral to the history of modern Britain associated staff listed in the 1890 and its empire, though they have largely ‘Charities and Register Digest’ been marginalized in mainstream published by the Charity narratives. [‘The Englishman’, remarked Organisation Society. This currently Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in 1924, stands at over 1800 organisations, ‘keeps his nervous system sound and and will be compared with similar sane’]. He is exploring multiple sources databases compiled for New York for this project as well as benefiting from and Paris. contact with other historians working in different parts of this field. Mr Baker is pleased to continue to be affiliated with the WUHMO and is In November 2010 he was invited to currently working on articles for make a presentation on “The Death of publication, from both his thesis and the Asylum” at a symposium organised his work on London charities and the by the Raphael Samuel History Centre Charity Organisation Society. at the University of East London. In December he contributed to a series of PETER BARHAM, Research seminars on the history of post-war Associate mental health organised by Drs Rhodri Dr Peter Barham is a Research Hayward and Mathew Thomson and Associate at the Unit and since held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for February 2011 he has also been an the History of Medicine at UCL with a associate member of the History presentation on user involvement. In Faculty. March 2011 he was invited to make a presentation on the topic of ‘Citizenship, Under the working title “Britain, Masculinity and Mental Health in the Empire and Mental Health: 1850- First World War’ at a conference on 2000” he is presently working on a Post-Heroic Warfare held at St Antony’s history that explores mental health College organised by the University of developments over this period in Oxford Programme on the Changing Britain and in the colonies and the Character of War directed by Professor relations between them. Among Hew Strachan. other aspects, the ‘civilizing mission’ was manifest in the creation of lunatic MARISA BENOIT, DPhil Student asylums at ‘home’ and ‘away’, quite Miss Benoit was happy to return to the as much as in other colonizing Wellcome Unit in October 2010 to begin ventures. Although there is a her DPhil research focusing on historiography of colonial psychiatry attitudes toward infertility in early as there is of domestic mental health, modern England and colonial New for the most part they have pursued England. Under the joint supervision of rather separate trajectories. The Dr Margaret Pelling and Dr Erica study is not intended to be exhaustive Charters, Miss Benoit examines the and will mostly focus on ‘colonies of ideology behind perceived causes,

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proposed cures, and the social screened in Spring 2012 and profiles repercussions of infertility in these his research on Chatham Dockyard. two regions from c. 1650-1800. In her first year Miss Benoit attended KAREN BROWN, ESRC Research conferences in Reading and London Fellow as well as participated in a Dr Brown has just completed her ESRC conference at Oxford that was Research Grant which looked at the organized by postgraduate students social history of veterinary medicine in in the history of medicine. With the South Africa. During the current help of a travel grant from the academic year Dr Brown carried out Rothermere American Institute, Miss extensive research in the North West Benoit spent a month in Boston, MA Province and extended her research conducting research at Harvard’s sites to include QwaQwa and Koppies Countway Library of Medicine. She is in the Free State. She interviewed also currently the president of the farmers and livestock owners from Oxford Student Alumni Society, a various backgrounds who rear animals group dedicated to strengthening ties in a variety of ecological and between current students and alumni epidemiological settings. Furthermore of the university. Miss Benoit is she has consulted the archives at the funded jointly by the Oxford History Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and Faculty and Christ Church and was interviewed a number of scientists and selected to receive the American veterinary surgeons. The field work has Friends of Christ Church scholarship produced some interesting findings and for the coming academic year. she is now working with her co- researcher, William Beinart, on a book RICHARD BIDDLE, Research provisionally entitled ‘African Assistant Knowledges: Livestock Diseases and Dr Biddle took up his position as a Treatments in South Africa.’ The book Research Assistant in February, as will look at African ideas about part of the Wellcome Trust-funded veterinary health with evidence drawn project, 'From Sail to Steam: Health, from the North West Province, Free Medicine and the Victorian Navy'. His State and the Eastern Cape. research focuses on health and medicine in the royal dockyards. Over the course of the year Dr Brown’s Since joining the unit he has been monograph Mad Dogs and Meerkats: A working extensively on the Admiralty history of Resurgent Rabies in papers at Kew and the archives for Southern Africa hit the market. She has Portsmouth, Chatham and given a number of presentations on Sheerness dockyards. He is rabies and her recent research on local currently in the process of compiling veterinary knowledge at international a database which tracks the conferences and workshops at home development of healthcare provision and abroad. She has reviewed a range across the yards and also the of grant proposals for European and frequency, nature and causes of American funding bodies and examined injuries and disease amongst several doctoral theses. dockworkers. In August, he took part in filming for an episode of BBC Coast. This is scheduled to be

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ERICA CHARTERS, University SANCHARI DUTTA, Wellcome Trust Lecturer in the History of Medicine Research Fellow Dr Erica Charters was on research In this academic year, Dr Dutta leave during Michaelmas 2010, as a completed two research articles, result of a Fell Fund award, which submitted a book proposal on her allowed her to complete her doctoral research, undertook a monograph manuscript Disease, research trip to India, and began work War, and the Imperial State: The on two further articles. The first of these Welfare of the British Armed Forces concerns the port infrastructure of during the Seven Years War, 1756- Bombay, Madras and Calcutta and 63 (under contract with the University analyses them as both trade and of Chicago Press) and complete co- disease in the entrepôts, to draw further editing of the volume Civilians and general conclusions about the coast War in Europe, 1640-1815 (under lines along the Bay of Bengal; the contract with Liverpool University other, focuses on early nineteenth- Press). In April 2011 she also century immigration from India to completed an article on race and Mauritius and the debates generated military medicine for a special edition around the 1830s cholera epidemic. of the journal Patterns of Prejudice. This brings together research she has undertaken over the past two years in Dr Charters gave various conference London and Oxford as well as the and seminar papers, alongside research she conducted in New Delhi’s convening the Trinity Term History of National Archives of India between Medicine seminar, and initiated a December 2010 and January 2011. new forum and network on ‘Maritime Medicine and Imperial Expansion’ In this time Dr Dutta also worked on the with funds from the Royal Navy history of prisons and medicine in Hudson Trust. She shared teaching colonial India (the subject of her on the undergraduate Further doctoral research) and substantially Subject Medicine, Empire and enlarged upon it for publication. She is Improvement and the OS Nature and revising her paper on criminology and Art in the Renaissance, and helped clinical trials for the Bulletin of the to develop a new FS on The Military History of Medicine, and her book and Society, to begin recruiting proposal is at an advanced stage of 2011/12. At the graduate level, she assessment with a leading UK-based was co-tutor for the History of university press. Science, Medicine, and Technology Research Forum, and taught the In January 2012 she will be reading a Advanced Paper Disease, Medicine, paper on political prisoners and prison and Society in the Americas. She memoirs in the South Asia seminar also co-supervised (with Dr Margaret series at St Antony’s college, Oxford. Pelling) the doctoral candidate Ms Ashley Mathisen (completed 2011) VAUGHAN DUTTON, Research and Ms Marisa Benoit. She Assistant continues to be a member of the Executive Committee of the Society Dr Vaughan Myles Dutton worked as a for the Social History of Medicine. research psychologist in a variety of contexts before joining WUHMO in

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2005 to read for a DPhil in the MADELINE FOWLER, DPhil Student History of Medicine. After Ms Fowler has completed her third year completion he joined the Sail and as a DPhil student in Modern History. Steam Victorian Navy project, Under the supervision of Mark Harrison, headed by Professor Mark Harrison. Ms Fowler’s research involves the transmission of cholera from the British Dr Dutton is currently researching Isles to port towns in British North the 1841 naval expedition up the America in the nineteenth century. She Niger river. The expedition, focuses specifically on Saint John, New consisting of four vessels, journeyed Brunswick, Halifax, Nova Scotia and St. up the treacherous Niger river in John’s, Newfoundland, between 1832- order to 'introduce civilisation to 1866, and the influence of the threat benighted Africa'. Although it and reality of epidemic disease on enjoyed a high public profile; was these developing communities during equipped with the best scientific and the colonial period. The dissertation medical technology available at the examines the effects of emigration and time; and was manned by the navy's disease on these towns, revealing the elite, those in the know harboured unique relationship between the serious concerns as to its feasibility. colonies, the connecting British and Within months their concerns were Irish port towns such as Liverpool, Cork realised when the expedition was and Dublin, and the officials in the destroyed by severe fever mortality. colonial office in London. In retrospect, there is no convincing reason for why it was allowed to Ms Fowler’s research involves the proceed at all. Those routinely analysis of board of health minutes, mentioned at the time (to establish colonial government documents, private trade relations with Niger chiefs, to diaries and correspondence, and reduce slave trade, and to express newspaper articles on cholera relating national unity, to civilise Africa) are to the treatment of disease, emigration unconvincing and riddled with and the implementation of health contradictions. Dr Dutton is using a measures within these transatlantic combination of psychoanalytic and communities. From September to post-colonial paradigms in order to December 2010, Ms Fowler used a re-examine the expedition and to travel grant from Green Templeton make sense of its occurrence. In this College to complete five research trips way, an alternative, psycho-political to the National Archives at Kew, and rationale for its manifestation will be one trip to the National Archives of offered. This will offer some insight Ireland in Dublin. In January 2011, she into the significance of Africa to the travelled to New Brunswick and Nova early Victorian psyche. Scotia to complete her research at the Provincial Archives in Fredericton and Dr Dutton maintains a moderate level Halifax. In July 2011, she presented a of undergraduate teaching and paper on the cholera epidemics in Saint postgraduate supervision. He has John, New Brunswick, based largely on submitted two papers for publication her January research trip, at the and co-presented a paper on Australian and New Zealand Society of previous work at the University of the History of Medicine in Brisbane, Paris. Queensland. Since March 2011, she

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has been writing up her research, interviews were later published in with the view of having it complete by magazines and books. In 2011, Trinity Term 2012. Professor Harrison was appointed Chair of the Wellcome Trust’s Expert MARK HARRISON, Director Review Group in Medical History and The beginning of the academic year Humanities. saw the publication of two monographs on which Professor SUZANNE HOLLMAN, MSc Student Harrison had be working for some Ms Hollman was an MSc student years: Medicine in the Age of whose research focused on the Commerce and Empire: Britain and pathologization of the native mind in its Tropical Colonies, 1660-1830 colonial Ceylon under the supervision (Oxford University Press, 2010) and of Dr Sloan Mahone. She presented her The Medical War: British Military MSc research project at the annual Medicine in the First World War graduate Economic and Social History (Oxford University Press, 2010). In conference at Oxford. Ms Hollman will April 2011, the latter volume won the be reading for a PhD in the History of Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded Medicine at University College London by the Society for Army Historical under the supervision of Dr Roger Research. Professor Harrison then Cooter. Her doctoral research project is began to complete another volume titled ‘The Body in Post-Religion Body scheduled for delivery to Yale Politics: The view from Catholicism.’ University Press in January 2012. She will be conducting the bulk of her This is entitled Contagion: How research in the United States where Commerce Has Spread Disease. In she will be attending seminars and addition to this, he completed several Grand Rounds at Stanford University chapters for edited volumes, some of Medical School. Since her return to the which were published and some still US she has resumed her work as a in press, and began work on a clinical psychologist in part-time private positioning piece for the Bulletin of practice. the History of Medicine, entitled ‘Re- thinking the History of Health, ELIZABETH HUNTER, DPhil Student Disease and Medicine from a Global Ms Hunter carried out the third year of Perspective’. This was also the title research towards a doctoral degree of a conference held in Oxford in funded by the Art and Humanities September 2011, at which Professor Research Council. Her topic is on the Harrison delivered the keynote link between melancholia and the lecture. This conference was doctrine of predestination in sixteenth- organized jointly with Professor and early seventeenth-century England. Randall Packard from Johns Hopkins Although despair over salvation has University and further conference is been widely studied as a key aspect of planned in Baltimore. the ‘self-fashioning’ of religious identities in early modern England, the Professor Harrison gave numerous medical dimension has been neglected. seminars and lectures outside Ms Hunter looks at contemporary Oxford, as well as some public accounts of symptoms of a troubled lectures and media interviews, in conscience, such as sleeplessness, Taiwan and Spain. Some of these loss of appetite, fever and delusion, and

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their relationship to theories of completing a monograph for publication melancholia. She has studied a wide by the University of the West Indies range of sources including medical press entitled Public Health in Jamaica, treatises, works of practical theology, 1850-1962: A Narrative of Neglect, plays, biographies and diaries. Philanthropy and Development. In July 2011 she presented a paper, ‘The Ms Hunter won the Royal Historical “Circus” in the West Indies: Society’s Rees Davies Prize for 2010 Development, Health and Welfare in for her essay ‘“The black lines of Jamaica, 1938-1948’ at an international damnation’: melancholia and conference Development and Empire, reprobation in reformation England’. 1929-1962 at the University of York. Her research continues under the joint supervision of Dr Margaret SHIN KWON KIM, DPhil Student Pelling and Dr Sarah Mortimer. It is Rev Shin Kwon Kim is doing his second expected that she will submit her year DPhil research under the thesis by June 2012. supervision of Professor Mark Harrison. He has been interested in the historical BRITTA JEWELL, MSc Student relationship between medicine and Ms Jewell was an MSc student religion and, particularly, has focused funded by the Wellcome Trust. Her on missionary medicine. For his research centred on the impact of doctoral research, he concentrates on venereal disease on military the late nineteenth- and early twentieth- efficiency in colonial India at the end century missionary medicine in East of the 19th century. She also Asia. His research is based on a presented a paper at a graduate concept of ‘Antiseptic Religion’ which History of Medicine conference, and he named for a hybrid form of medicine won the Jane Willis Kirkaldy Senior and religion in the context of Prize for a paper on gender and the colonization. He scrutinizes how 1860s Contagious Diseases Acts. Western medicine and Christianity was Ms Jewell is currently working as an delivered by medical missionaries and assistant for an HIV modelling was accepted by Korean people in project in the Department of terms of the socio-political and cultural Infectious Disease Epidemiology at interaction between them. In his Imperial College London. She plans research, he examines the nexus of to go on to a PhD in either the history knowledge and power as disciplinary of medicine or public health policy in practices for surveillance and the following years. normalization in relation to the production of docile bodies by exploring MARGARET JONES, Research the establishment of hospitals, private Associate clinics for mission, and cholera Dr Jones has been a Research epidemics in nineteenth-century Korea. Associate at the Wellcome Unit for In addition, he considers how the the History of Medicine since her concept of cleanliness and dirt could be retirement in October 2008. She has differently working or closely continued to write up her research on collaborating in religion and medicine public health in Jamaica undertaken by dealing with purity of body/soul and whilst she was a Research Fellow at the germ theory. the Unit. At present she is

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Recently, he wrote a paper, ‘Trauma & Personhood in Late Colonial ‘Contesting the Medical Gaze’, as an Kenya’ (funded by the Arts & abridged version of a chapter of his Humanities Research Council), Dr thesis, which explained how and why Mahone is currently completing the Korean people contested the power related monograph ‘Revisiting the of Christianity and Western medicine Psychology of Mau Mau: Photography by spreading a rumour regarding and Psychiatry in Late Colonial Kenya’ cannibalistic behaviours of and associated articles. Prompted by foreigners. He argues that through the original AHRC project, Dr Mahone rumours the people reinterpreted the recently conducted new field work in Western medicine as cruel, ignorant, Kisii, western Kenya on the resilience of and dehumanized. trepanation surgery – an ancient practice still carried out rurally in one BRIAN KROHN, MSc Student small region of Kenya. The collection of Mr Krohn was an MSc student oral histories by local practitioners and funded by the Rhodes Trust. His patients of trepanning will form the dissertation ‘Pitt on Physick: basis of a new project to integrate the Revisiting Dr Pitt and the London significant photographic collection from Dispensary’ focused on the re- the Trauma and Personhood project. evaluating the accepted historical perception of Dr Robert Pitt’s role Throughout the year, Dr Mahone and medical philosophy during the continued to teach and lecture for the contentious debates between the History of Medicine, Commonwealth Royal College of Physicians and the and Imperial History, African Studies, Society of Apothecaries at the turn of and a new Neuroscience course on the eighteenth century. Travel for his Culture and Cognition. She continues to research was partially supported by guest lecture or give research papers a grant from the Keble Association. internationally; most recently in While at Oxford he participated in the Washington, DC, the University of 2011 Oxford History of Science and Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Newcastle Medicine Postgraduate Conference University. and several extracurricular activities including the TATA Idea Idol entrepreneurial competition where he JOHN MANTON, Research Associate won the People’s Choice Award. Mr During the past academic year, Dr Krohn is currently a research fellow Manton continued his research at the University of Minnesota’s fellowship at the London School of Bioproducts and Biosystems Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He Engineering Department and is presented material arising from a planning to pursue a PhD in Natural Wellcome Trust grant held at the Unit at Resource Science and Management a panel on medicine and migration in focusing on the environmental Africa, convened at the 53rd Annual impacts of second generation Meeting of the African Studies biofuels. Association, held in San Francisco, USA in November 2010. An article, SLOAN MAHONE, Deputy Director ‘Leprosy control in Eastern Nigeria and After completing the archival and oral the social history of colonial skin’, was history research for the project published in Leprosy Review in June

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2011. Dr Manton was also part of a involvement in the ‘knowledge team which successfully bid for an economy’. ESRC Open Research Area grant to fund an international research project In June he commenced work on the entitled ‘Memorials and remains of ‘Malaria’ wing of the project under the medical research in Africa’, which supervision of Professor Laurence runs until Jun 2014. Brockliss, Michael Moss and John Cardwell. He is researching the political ASHLEY MATHISEN, DPhil economy of ‘mastering malaria’ in the Student Royal Navy from c.1770-1860 as part of This year Miss Mathisen completed a wider imperial problem of resource her DPhil under the supervision of Dr management. This work aims to Margaret Pelling and Dr Erica complicate the triumphalist tale of the Charters. Her thesis, entitled discovery of cinchona and its alkaloids ‘Treating the Children of the Poor: and to explore the extent of cost- Institutions and the Construction of cutting, resistance to prophylaxis and Medical Authority in Eighteenth- the search for alternative febrifuges, century London’ was successfully which preceded and followed the defended at her viva in March 2011. naturalization of the cinchona genus in British India. Miss Mathisen currently has an article under consideration Dr McEvoy is currently extending his at Medical History, and she is doctoral research into the political working on producing an additional economy of technical education and the article, examining the subject of state in the long eighteenth century and childhood disability in the eighteenth preparing articles for publication. century, and the links between disability and independence, and NEASA MCGARRIGLE, MSc Student childhood and adolescence. Miss Ms McGarrigle was an MSc student Mathisen is currently working in the supervised by Dr Sloan Mahone. Journals Division of University of Inspired by material she had previously Toronto Press. encountered while carrying out conservation work on early printed TIMOTHY MCEVOY, Research books in Trinity College Dublin, Ms Assistant McGarrigle’s thesis focused on the Dr McEvoy completed his PhD in connections between the tropical History at the University of Warwick disease elephantiasis and dermatology and passed his Viva examination in in the nineteenth century. She May 2011 prior to joining the presented this research at the Wellcome Unit in June as a Postgraduate History of Medicine Research Assistant on the project Workshop 'Sick of being Sick' funded ‘From Sail to Steam: Health, by the Wellcome Trust and held in Medicine and the Victorian Navy’. Oxford in September 2011. Ms His thesis examined the provision of McGarrigle also studied evolution and naval education comparably in society, an advanced class taught by eighteenth-century Britain and Professor Pietro Corsi, and earned a Venice and the extent of state first for her research paper on Erwin Schrödinger's ‘What is Life?’ and its

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relation to the evolutionary synthesis KARISHMA NANHU, MPhil Student in the twentieth century. Ms Ms Nanhu is pursuing an MPhil in the McGarrigle intends to expand her History of Science, Medicine and research on this noble laureate via a Technology and is funded by the DPhil. Government of Trinidad and Tobago. With the supervision of Professor SAURABH MISHRA, Wellcome Harrison, she is researching health and Trust Research Fellow medicine during Indian Indentureship in Dr Saurabh Mishra is about to Trinidad c1880-1920. Indians were complete three years of his brought to Trinidad to work on the Research Fellowship funded by the sugar plantations after African slavery Wellcome Trust. During the current in the Caribbean ended in 1838. In academic year he conducted theory Indian indentureship differed research at the British Library from slavery since it was contracted, (London), the India Institute Library paid labour. In reality the systems were (Oxford), the National Library highly comparable especially since (Kolkata) and the West Bengal State Indian labourers lived in the same Archives (Kolkata). barracks that the slaves lived in and were offered basically the same In addition Dr Mishra has published a medical provisions. Ms Nanhu is book titled Pilgrimage, Politics, and looking at the healthcare provisions for Pestilence: The Haj from the Indian Indians on the journey from India to Subcontinent, 1860-1920 from the Trinidad on board passenger ships, the Oxford University Press (India). This relationship between working and living book was based on his DPhil thesis conditions on the estates in Trinidad submitted to the University of Oxford and the prevalence of diseases and at in 2008. Besides this he also the medical services Indians were published an article titled ‘Of offered on and off the plantations. Poisoners, Tanners and the British Raj: Redifining Chamar Identity in MARGARET PELLING, Senior Colonial North India, 1850-90’ in the Research Associate Indian Economic and Social History Dr Pelling has been a Senior Research Review, vol. 48, no.3. This article is Associate of the Unit since her part of his current research project retirement as Reader in the Social on livestock and the peasant History of Medicine in September 2009. economy in north India. Two of his A full account of her projects can be other articles, based on this found in the Annual Report for 2008/9. research, have also been accepted She is currently developing her interest for publication in Modern Asian in barbers and barber-surgeons into a Studies and Bulletin of the History of thematic monograph, focusing on the Medicine. Both of them will be wider cultural connections of barbers in published by early 2012. He is also particular, within a broad chronological working on his second monograph, framework. Research so far has the manuscript of which should be concentrated on barbers as literary ready in 2012. devices, and the connections between barbers and music over time. Over the past year her immediate aim has been to finalise, first, an essay on Robert

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Recorde and uroscopy, and conference ‘Population, Economy and secondly, an investigation of the 17th- Welfare’ held in Cambridge in honour of century analyst of the London Bills of Richard M. Smith. Mortality, John Graunt. The latter study raises gender issues in YOLANA PRINGLE, DPhil Student Graunt’s work and seeks to make Miss Pringle spent the second year of links with contemporary debates on her DPhil conducting research into prophecy, anti-Trinitarianism and mental illness in Uganda from 1894 to polygamy. This study will form part of 1972. In April 2011 Miss Pringle set off a collected volume being edited by on a seven-month fieldwork trip to Sarah Toulalan of the University of Uganda, in which time she has Exeter. She is part of an initiative consulted numerous local and national based at Exeter aimed at producing archives, including those at the Uganda a comprehensive database, available National Archives, Mulago Hospital, online, of medical practitioners (of all and Uganda’s Ministry of Health. In kinds) active in the British Isles addition, she has conducted a large c.1500-1700. This would include the number of interviews with Ugandan digitisation of the Biographical Index elders from across the country, of Medical Practitioners of which she focusing on responses to mental illness is custodian and which at present in local communities and occurrences exists in card form. of ‘mass hysteria’. Miss Pringle’s fieldwork has been supported by grants She is continuing to supervise DPhil from the Wellcome Trust, the British students, jointly with Faculty post- Institute in Eastern Africa, and Jesus holders as is the rule with retired College. During her time in Uganda, supervisors. Of the four supervised Miss Pringle has developed close links in 2010/11, one (Ashley Mathisen) with professionals at Mulago Hospital completed her thesis and was Medical School and Mental Health successfully examined. The others, Uganda. who are at different stages, are Elizabeth Hunter, Kristina Van In Hilary Term 2011, Miss Pringle Prooyen, and Marisa Benoit. She no participated in the History Faculty’s longer supervises MSc students but ‘training to teach’ programme, and was is available to assist in an advisory attached to Dr Darwin’s Imperialism capacity whenever this is required. and Nationalism course.

Other relevant activities include: In addition to her academic studies, serving a second term on the Blue Miss Pringle led an AHRC Collaborative Plaques Advisory Panel of English Research Training in Public Heritage; contributing summaries to Engagement programme entitled the the English Historical Review; History Blogging Project. Running from advising as Consultant Editor for October 2010 to April 2011, the project Medicine to the Oxford Dictionary of involved editing a website dedicated to National Biography, now under the exploring issues surrounding blogging editorship of Professor Lawrence about postgraduate research, and Goldman and regularly updated organising a one-day training workshop online; refereeing, and reviewing. In on blogging (held at Oxford in April September she attended the 2011).

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MARYSTELLA RAMIREZ- Archaeology) is under consideration by GUERRA, MSc Student Notes and Records of the Royal Marystella Ramirez-Guerra was an Society. MSc student supervised by Professor Mark Harrison and funded Dr Roos also received a British by the Wellcome Trust. Before Academy Small Grant to do a critical arriving at Oxford she worked for the edition and website of Lister's memoirs World Youth Alliance, an NGO with and diary written whilst he was a consultative status at the United medical student in Montpellier during Nation's ECOSOC. It was through the 1660s. She gave seven invited her work for the World Youth Alliance talks and conference papers, and she on primary health care structures in hosted a television documentary the Philippines that she was concerning Newtonian Alchemy for motivated to focus her dissertation National Geographic, which aired from on dengue fever. She presented part December 2011 until July 2012 in the of this research at the Postgraduate United States and the United Kingdom. Conference on the History of Dr Roos was elected as honorary Medicine and Science at the History secretary of the Society for the History Faculty, University of Oxford. She of Alchemy and Chemistry in June hopes to continue further studies in 2011, and will serve on the board of the the History of Medicine through a journal Ambix. doctoral thesis. DAVID ROUKEMA, MSc Student ANNA MARIE ROOS, Research Mr Roukema was a Canadian MSc Associate student under the supervision of Dr Roos published her monograph Professor Harrison. His research area about the royal physician and was focused on the nexus of medicine, naturalist Martin Lister, and she conflict, and British national foreign received a contract to edit a three- policy in the mid-twentieth century. volume edition of his During the months of June, July, and correspondence (forthcoming Brill, August of 2011 he conducted archival 2013-2017). The National Science research at the Wellcome Trust Library Foundation, British Academy, Royal and the British National Archives. In Society, and the Mellon Foundation particular, he investigated the records funded her work. Dr Roos's of Dr Philip Evans and the British discovery of the over 1000 paediatric medical team that Dr Evans copperplates from Lister's edition of led at the behest of the British Ministry his Historiae Conchyliorum (1685-92) of Overseas Development during the in the Bodleian Library was featured Vietnam War, discussing the in a international news story in the paradoxical benefit that politics seemed journal Nature's website, with a to offer humanitarian medical aid. Mr planned exhibit of a selection of the Roukema presented a paper at the plates in the proscholium of the graduate History of Science, Medicine Bodleian Library in September 2012. and Technology conference at the An article about the discovery University of Oxford. Mr Roukema will containing data gathered during begin study towards an MD at collaboration with Professor Mark McMaster University in the Autumn of Pollard and Dr Peter Bray (Oxford, 2011.

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TULSI ROY, MSc Student history of psychiatry under Communism Ms Roy was an MSc student whose and intends to publish his dissertation research focused on Robert Boyle, as a monograph. He has been with particular interests in reconciling lecturing in Canada at the Department and identifying conflicts in the of Health, Aging, and Society at portraits that have emerged in the McMaster University on the history and past twenty years in the Boyle sociology of pharmaceuticals and Industry. Ms Roy presented her mental health. In the next year, he research at the HSMT Postgraduate hopes to begin a postdoctoral research Seminar in 2011. She is currently project on the history of attending medical school at psychopharmaceutical advertising. Vanderbilt University in the US. JOHN SENIOR, Research Associate DAVID RUEGER, MSc Student Dr Senior is a Research Associate at Mr Rueger completed his MSc in the the Wellcome Unit and continuing History of Science, Medicine, and member of Linacre College. He Technology in September 2011. A contributes to the teaching of the HSMT Canadian and resident of Linacre programme by offering an advanced College, he received funding from paper on the History of Electrotherapy. the Canadian National Railway. His He also tutors Special Study Modules in research focused on the role of book the History of Clinical Trials, trade and copyright laws in the Comparative Health Care and production of medical texts in late Electrotherapy for 6th Year clinical seventeenth-century England, with medical students. Dr Senior also particular reference to the works of lectures Comparative Health Care for Thomas Sydenham. His most recent pre medical students attending the projects include a contribution to an Stanford University in Oxford edited edition of Mary Hays' Female Programme and continues to do Biography (1803). Mr Rueger has research for the UK Cochrane now taken a job as a rare book seller Collaboration. In May last year he was in New York. invited to present a paper on history and ethics of evidence-based health MATHEW SAVELLI, DPhil Student care to the WHO and is currently Mr Savelli completed his DPhil completing drafts of two articles related entitled “Confronting the Problems of to the intellectual context of Victorian the Individual and Society: electro-medicine. An E version of his Psychiatry and Mental Illness in book on Pierre and Marie Curie Communist Yugoslavia” in published by the History Press will be September 2011. A portion of his appearing shortly. thesis has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of HELEN SWEET, Research Associate the Social History of Medicine and Dr Sweet has remained as a Research will be published under the title Associate at the Unit, having officially “Diseased, Depraved, or Just Drunk: completed post-doctoral research with The Psychiatric Panic over Professor Mark Harrison and Dr Alcoholism in Communist Margaret Jones, in 2007. She has Yugoslavia.” He is currently continued to research the history of compiling an edited volume on the mission hospitals and their satellite

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clinics in KwaZulu Natal, South receipt of a small Staff Development Africa, and has been finalising a Grant from them in June this year to monograph on the subject whilst assist with her South African research. extending this work to the provision She is a member of the Advisory of primary health care in that region. Boards of the RCN History of Nursing This has particularly focused on the Society and the newly formed UK Valley Trust and the associated Association for the History of Nursing Botha’s Hill Health Centre which is to be officially launched in established in 1948 as an March 2012. ‘experiment in social medicine’. In the past year she has presented and KATHLEEN VONGSATHORN, DPhil published a number of papers in Student South Africa, Scandinavia and the Under the supervision of Dr Sloan UK, as well as undertaken extensive Mahone, and funded by a Wellcome research at the Valley Trust in 2010 Trust doctoral studentship, Ms and 2011 in collaboration with Vongsathorn has continued her Professor Anne Digby of Oxford research on the social environment Brookes University, incorporating within Uganda’s leprosy settlements oral history and archival research. between 1927 and 1951. She focuses This has resulted in a joint paper on three factors that influenced this published in the Social History of environment: the religious and social Medicine and is also work in ideologies of the Christian missionaries progress towards a monograph who maintained the settlements; the (working title: Health Notwithstanding cooperation and conflict between these Apartheid: An ongoing “experiment in missionaries and the colonial social medicine” conducted in rural government that assisted them KwaZulu Natal) for publication in financially; and the response of the 2013. leprosy patients to the application of mission ideologies to life within the Dr Sweet has also been an adviser settlements. to the University of Basel on a three- year project comparing the history of Over the last three years, Ms medical services provided by various Vongsathorn has undertaken research hospital complexes founded by in various mission, charity, colonial, and Swiss missionaries in parts of rural personal archives in England, Scotland, sub-Saharan Africa. This was led by Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya. Over Professors Patrick Harries and Brigit the last year, she concluded her Obrist combining medical history and fieldwork with trips to archives and medical anthropology and hospitals in Uganda, and a mission culminating in a conference at Basel convent in Ireland. in September 2011 ‘The History of Health Care in Africa: Actors, Alongside research and writing up, Ms Experiences and Perspectives in the Vongsathorn has presented papers at Twentieth Century’ to which Dr conferences and seminars at the Sweet was invited. In addition, she University of Birmingham, Oxford, teaches history with the Open London’s Institute for Historical University (Oxford Region) as an Research, Cambridge, Columbia Associate Lecturer, and was in University, and the University of

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Utrecht, and also at the African diplomacy supported by the U.S. Studies Association annual meeting government. in San Francisco, and the American Historical Association meeting in In March, Ms Wetherby was named a Boston. 2011-2012 Dissertation Research Fellow at the Philadelphia Area Last winter, Ms Vongsathorn Consortium for the History of Science, assisted in the teaching of a History funding one month of research at Faculty Further Subject on African institutions in the Philadelphia area. Imperialism and Nationalism. Over With additional assistance from grants the last year she has also received awarded by the Rothermere American research and travel grants from the Institute, Arnold Fund of the Oxford Economic History Society, the History Faculty, and Balliol History Society for the History of Childhood Tutors Trust Fund, she was able to and Youth, the Beit Fund, the complete work at 11 different archival Society for the Social History of institutions in the United States over Medicine, and the European two months in August and September. Association for the History of Having completed her transfer of status Medicine. She also organised a in June by presenting a paper at the Wellcome Trust sponsored workshop first annual Postgraduate Conference in at Oxford in September: ‘Sick of the History of Medicine, Ms Wetherby Being Sick: The Second Annual looks forward to continuing her work in Graduate Workshop in the History of the upcoming academic year. Medicine’. HARRY YI-JUI WU, DPhil Student AELWEN WETHERBY, DPhil Mr Wu is third year DPhil student at the Student unit. He completed the confirmation of Ms Wetherby completed the first DPhil status in August 2010. Under the year of her DPhil under the joint supervision of Dr Sloan Mahone supervision of Professor Mark and Dr Karl Gerth, Mr Wu continued Harrison and Dr Gareth Davies. writing up his thesis on Transnational Building off of themes explored in her Trauma: Trauma and Psychiatry in the MPhil thesis, completed at the World and Taiwan, 1945-c.1995. After Wellcome Unit in 2009, Ms completing his archival research in Wetherby’s current research focuses Switzerland and England, he had been on American medical relief to China awarded Doctoral Fellowship at the in the late 1930’s and 1940’s. Institute of History and Philology, Studying the development of several Academia Sinica, Taipei. While in organizations founded in the United Taipei, he was invited to give talks on States to send medical aid to China his research at a number of hospitals after the outbreak of the Second and universities. In addition to research, Sino-Japanese War, she is Mr Wu has been granted an opportunity particularly interested in how such to teach the course Medicine and aid transitioned from the more Civilisation at China Medical University limited, grassroots efforts of a few in Taiwan. private American citizens, to a more national enterprise of medical

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WORK PUBLISHED and IN PRESS ‘Rabid Epidemiologies: The Emergence and Resurgence of FABIANO ARDIGO Rabies in Twentieth-century South Published Work: Africa,’ Journal of the History of (editor) Histórias de uma Ciência Biology, 44, 1 (2011), 81-101. Regional: Cientistas e suas Instituições no Paraná (1940-1960) ‘Livestock Diseases, Racial Politics (Contexto: Sao Paulo, 2011). and Veterinary Medicine in South Africa c. 1870-1920,’ in Geneviève ‘Introdução” in Ardigo, F. (ed.), Massard-Guilbaud and Stephen Histórias de uma Ciência Regional: Mosley (eds), Common Ground: Cientistas e suas Instituições no Integrating the Social and Paraná (1940-1960) (as above), Environmental in History, Newcastle, pp.17-25. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). ‘Uma ciência improvável: o Museu Paranaense entre 1940 e 1960’, in [Book Review] Ute Dieckmann, Ardigo, F. (ed.) Histórias de uma Hai//om in the Etosha Region: A Ciência Regional: Cientistas e suas History of Colonial Settlement, Instituições no Paraná (1940-1960) Ethnicity and Nature Conservation (as above), pp.101-176. (Basle, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2007), Journal of Southern African Studies, 36, 3 (2010), 732-733.

[Book Review] Susan Jones, Death in a Small Package: a Short History of Anthrax (Baltimore, John Hopkins Press, 2010), forthcoming ISIS.

MARK HARRISON Published Work: The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War KAREN BROWN (Oxford University Press, 2010). Published Work: Winner of the Templer Medal Book Mad Dogs and Meerkats: A History Prize. of Resurgent Rabies in Southern Africa, (Ohio University Press, 2011). ‘Disease and the Dilemmas of Development: A Malaria Strategy for Bombay Presidency, 1902-42’, Hasi Majumdar Oration on History and Philosophy of Medicine and Science, 22 March 2011 (Calcutta University, 2011), 1-42.

‘Medicine and Colonialism in South Asia since 1500’, in M. Jackson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the

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History of Medicine (Oxford: Oxford Public Health Practice, 1850-1960 University Press, 2011), 285-301 (Routledge).

In Press: BRIAN KROHN ‘Networks of Knowledge: Rethinking Published Work: Science and Medicine in Early Krohn, B. McNeff, C. Yan, B. Colonial India’, in D. Peers and N. Nowlan, D. ‘Production of Algae- Guptu (eds.), The Oxford Companion Based Biodiesel using the to the History of the British Empire: Continuous Catalytic Mcgyan India (Oxford: Oxford University Process. Bioresource Technology, Press, forthcoming 2012) 102 (2011), 94-100.

ELIZABETH HUNTER In Press: In Press: Krohn, B. Fripp, M. A Life Cycle ‘“The black lines of damnation”: Assessment of Biodiesel Derived melancholia and reprobation in from the “Niche Filling” Energy Crop reformation England’, Transactions Camelina in the U.S.A. Applied of the Royal Historical Society Energy. (2011), [under review by editor]. Fripp, M. Krohn, B. Life-Cycle [Book chapter] ‘‘Terrors of body and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from soul: crises of conscience in England Renewable, Nuclear, and Carbon- c. 1550-1650’ [under review by Capture Power Plants.Proceedings Palgrave MacMillan Publishers as of the National Academy of Science. part of a proposal for an edited volume put forward by the ‘Religious TIMOTHY MCEVOY Melancholy’ research project at In Press: King’s College, London, headed by ‘How does a state find useful Professor Matthew Bell]. knowledge? Locating a teacher of navigation in 18th-century Venice’, MARGARET JONES (History of Science). In Press: M. Jones and Amala de Silva ‘Good SLOAN MAHONE Health at Low Cost”: the Sri Lankan In Press: Experience’ in M. J. Lewis and KL Readings in Health in Africa MacPherson, eds, The Challenge of (International African Institute, the Double Disease Burden in Asia Indiana University Press, and the Pacific : Histories of forthcoming 2013). Responses to Chronic Non- Communicable and Communicable MARGARET PELLING Diseases (Routledge). In Press: ‘Recorde and The Urinal of Physick: ‘Subordinates in the nineteenth- Context, Uroscopy and the Practice century colonial hospital: a snapshot of Medicine’, in Gareth Roberts and from Jamaica of these public – yet Fenny Smith (eds.), Robert Recorde hidden – colonial servants’ in R. (1510-1558): His Life and Times Johnson and A. Khalid (eds), Public (University of Wales Press). Health in the British Empire: Intermediaries, Subordinates, and

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ANNA MARIE ROOS In Press: Published Work: (with A. Digby) ‘Social Medicine with Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639- Medical Pluralism: The Valley Trust 1712), the first arachnologist (Leiden: and Botha’s Hill Health Centre, Brill, 2011). South Africa, 1940s – 2000s’ Social History of Medicine 24:3. (2011). ‘Hunting Robert Boyle: Michael Hunter and Boyle's Life and Letters’, ‘A mission to nurse: The missionary Notes and Records of the Royal nurse’s role in the development of Society 65 (2011), 311-315. [Invited nursing in South Africa c. 1948-1975’ essay review of Hunter's oeuvre]. in: Pat D’Antonio, Julie Fairman, Jean Whelan, (eds.) Handbook on In Press: the Global History of Nursing (New ‘Salient theories in the fossil debate York: Routledge, forthcoming 2012). in the early Royal Society: the influence of Johann Van Helmont’, in ‘Spreading nursing knowledge in a V. Boantza, M. Dascal and A. Cattani South African context, c.1900-1950’ (eds.), Controversies within the in Ellen Fleischmann, Sonya Scientific Revolution (Amsterdam: Grypma, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, John Benjamins Publishing, Michael Marten (eds.) December 2011), pp. 151-170. Humanitarianism, Nursing, and Missions: How to Study Knowledge ‘The Hawstead Panels: Applied Exchanges in a Historical, Emblematics, Walter Ong, and the Transnational Perspective. Discourse of Women in Early [Publisher to be confirmed]. Modern England’, in Thomas J. (Forthcoming 2012). Farrell and Paul A. Soukup (eds.), Of Ong and Media Ecology: Essays in ‘Medicine with a Mission: The Role Communication, Composition, and and Development of Missionary Literary Studies (Cresskill, NJ: Nursing and Medicine in KwaZulu Hampton Press, 2012), pp. 197-211. Natal: c1920-1980?’ [Publisher to be confirmed]. (Forthcoming 2012). Eugenie S. Reich, ‘300-year-old engravings shed light on women in HARRY WU science’, Nature (24 December Published Work: 2010). ‘Anti-Malaria Campaigns Beyond the http://www.nature.com/news/2010/10 Scope of State.’ In Taiwan: A Radical 1224/full/news.2010.689.html Quarterly in Social Studies, 85 (2011). HELEN SWEET Published Work: In Press: ‘History of Nursing: nursing identity’ ‘World Citizenship and the Classification in: Kate Trant, Sue Usher (eds.) of Psychiatric Diagnoses: the History of Nurse: Past, Present and Future: a World Health Organization’s Early The Making of Modern Nursing Mental Health Programme.’ In Chang (London: Black Dog Publishing and Lu (eds.) (2011) Psychiatric Nursing 2010). and the Society: An STS Reader (Yang- Ming University, forthcoming 2012).

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CONFERENCES and ‘The Massacre of The Meerkats: WORKSHOPS Science, Ecology and The Control of Indigenous Rabies in Twentieth- century South Africa,’ paper at MARISA BENOIT Wellcome Unit for the History of ‘“A Great Weakness upon Him”: Medicine, Oxford, November 2010 Attitudes toward Impotence in Early Modern England and Colonial New ERICA CHARTERS England’ paper at the History of ‘Military Medicine and the Ethics of Science and Medicine Postgraduate War’, seminar paper at the Dallas Conference at Oxford, June 2011 Area Social History Workshop, TX, October 2010 KAREN BROWN ‘“The grave of the cow is in the ‘Prisoners of War in the Eighteenth stomach”: Environment and Century’, conference paper at the Livestock diseases in South Africa’, ‘Defining Soldiers’ workshop, paper at ‘Wild Things: “Nature” and University of Leeds, January 2011 the Social Imagination’, Environmental History Conference, ‘Prisoners of War in the Early St Antony's College, Oxford, Modern England’, seminar paper at September 2011 the History of War seminar, University of Oxford, February 2011 ‘“Our Animals are like our Children”: Livestock, Environment and Disease ‘Civil Soldiers: Prisoners of War in in South Africa’, paper at European Britain during the Eighteenth Environmental History Conference, Century’, public lecture at the Turku, 28 June-2 July 2011 National Army Museum, London, April 2011 ‘“Without Farming the Tswana have no worth”: Cattle and Identity in The ‘Making Bodies Modern’, conference North West Province, South Africa’, paper at the Anglo-American paper at American Environmental Conference, IHR, London, June History Conference, Phoenix, April 2011 2011 ‘Prisoners of War and British ‘Beware of the Meerkats!: A Social Warfare’, conference paper at the and Ecological History of Rabies in Defining Soldiers conference, Twentieth-century South Africa’, University of Leeds, July 2011 paper at African Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, Convened workshop, ‘Maritime November 2010 Medicine and Global Expansion’, University of Oxford, June 2011 ‘“Ticks came in planes”: Local Knowledge and its Inter-relationship Appeared on BBC2 History Cold with Global Veterinary Medicine’, Case discussing disease and paper at ‘Rethinking the History of soldiers during the Civil War in York, Health, Disease and Medicine in shown June 2011 Global Perspective’ Workshop, Oxford, September 2011

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MADELINE FOWLER Asia, ‘Policy, Practice, and ‘“Expecting the Unexpected”: Implications in a Global Context’, Emigrant Ships, Cholera and Ohio State University, USA, October Medical Relief in the Port Town of 2011 Saint John, New Brunswick, 1832- 1866’, paper at Australian and New MARK HARRISON Zealand Society of the History of ‘Medicine in an Age of Commerce Medicine's 'Private Health and and Empire: Britain and its Tropical Public Healers' Conference July Colonies, 1660-1830’, seminar 2011 paper at Imperial and Commonwealth History Conference, ELIZABETH HUNTER Oxford, October 2010 ‘“A Perfect Anatomy”: fasting and despair in puritan culture in early ‘Globalisation and Health since the modern England’, paper at Nineteenth Century’, Annual Lecture European Association for the at University of Hull, Departments of History of Medicine and Health History and Geography, November Conference, Utrecht, September 2010 2011 ‘Imperialism and Medicine’, paper at ‘Terrors of Body and Soul: Crises of Institute for the History of Science Conscience in England c. 1550- and Medicine, University of 1650’ paper at Religious Valencia, March 2011 Melancholy: An Interdisciplinary Conference, King’s College, ‘Disease and the Dilemmas of London, May 2011 Development: A Malaria Strategy for Bombay Presidency, 1902-42’, BRITTA JEWELL paper at Hasi Majumdar Oration on ‘The Specter of Degeneration: History and Philosophy of Medicine Masculinity, Venereal Disease, and and Science, Calcutta University, the Regulation of Prostitution in the March 2011 Rise of the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1864-1869’, paper at the ‘The Third Plague Pandemic and Oxford History of Science, Medicine the New Liberal Consensus in and Technology Postgraduate Sanitary Policy’, seminar papers at Conference, June 2011 Department of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, MARGARET JONES March 2011 ‘The “Circus” in the West Indies: Development, Health and Welfare in ‘Pandemics: Crisis and Opportunity’, Jamaica, 1938-1948’, paper at paper at National University of ‘Development and Empire, 1929- Taiwan Convention Centre, March 1962’ conference, University of 2011 York, July 2011 ‘Medicine and Munificence at the SHIN KWON KIM Court of Arcot: 1744-1801’, paper at ‘Contesting the Medical Gaze’ paper Conference on ‘Medicine, Science at conference on Science, and Empire in the Eighteenth Technology and Medicine in East

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Century’, University of Kent, April paper at the History of the Book 2011 Group, Merton College, Oxford, May 2011 ‘Medicine and Munificence at the Court of Arcot’, paper at Green ‘The Art of Science: The College University of British “Rediscovery” of the Copperplates Columbia, Vancouver, April 2011 of Martin Lister’s Historiae Conchlyiorum (1685-92)’, YOLANA PRINGLE conference paper at the annual ‘Race, place, and mental breakdown meeting of the British Society of the at Mengo Hospital, 1897-1944’, History of Science, University of paper at the African Studies Exeter, July 2011 Association conference, November 2010 ‘The Prince and the Popper: Prince Rupert’s Drops and Natural History ‘“Spreading the Message”: Ideas in the Early Royal Society’, and Institutions of Mental Illness in conference paper at the Society of Colonial Buganda (Uganda)’, PRS Glass Technology, Lady Margaret presentation at the Wellcome Unit Hall, Oxford, September 2011 for the History Medicine, Oxford, January 2011 ‘Every Man’s Companion: Or, A useful Pocket-Book: The Travel ANNA MARIE ROOS Journal of Dr Martin Lister (1639- ‘The Oxford Philosophical Society 1712) and Correspondence and the Royal Society: a meeting of Networks’, invited paper at the minds?’, invited public lecture, conference, ‘Intellectual Geography: Museum of the History of Science, Comparative Studies, 1550-1700’, Oxford, October 2010 St. Anne's College, Oxford, September 2011 ‘Spiderman: Dr. Martin Lister (1639- 1712) and early modern theories of HELEN SWEET insect vectors and disease’, seminar ‘Nursing Under Apartheid in paper at the EMPHASIS seminar Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, 1920- series at University College, 1990’, paper at ‘International London, May 2011 Perspectives in the History of Nursing’, American Association for ‘Alchemical agendas, the New the History of Nursing and the Science and patterns of authority at European Nursing History Group the early Académie Royale des Joint Conference, London, Sciences and the Royal Society’, September 2010 seminar paper at the Chemistry and alchemy: continuities and ruptures ‘Gender and nurses: nursing and colloquium at Oxford Brookes gender’, discussant at Joint University, May 2011 Colloquium in the History of Nursing, Centre for the Social ‘The Art of Science: The History of Health and Healthcare “Rediscovery” of the Copperplates (Glasgow Caledonian University) of Martin Lister’s Historiae and the UK Centre for the History of Conchlyiorum (1685-92)’, seminar Nursing and Midwifery (The

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‘Medicine with (and without) a Mission: developments in nursing and medicine in KwaZulu Natal c.1915-1985’ paper at ‘The Past and its Possibilities: Perspectives of Southern Africa’, Southern African Historical Society Annual Conference, Durban 2011

‘The History of Health Care in Africa: Actors, Experiences and Perspectives in the 20th Century’ invited paper at University of Basel, September, 2011

‘Spreading knowledge under an apartheid system: mission nursing in the South African context’, invited paper at ‘Humanitarianism, Nursing, and Missions: How to Study Knowledge Exchanges in a Historical, Transnational Perspective’ Conference, University of Bergen, September 2011

HARRY YI-JUI WU ‘The Emergence of International Psychiatric Epidemiology: a New Science in the Post-War Shadow’, paper at Australia and New Zealand History of Medicine Biennial Conference, Brisbane, Australia, July 2011

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