Centre for History in Public Health. Promoting and undertaking high quality research in order to contribute to the development of the historical discipline and to historical understanding in the field of public health policy. Welcome to the Centre for History in Public Health. Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919-1960s Diagnosing Deviance by Janet Weston.

History of Medicine in Ireland Blog. A collaborative blog between the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Heritage Centre highlighting research and events in the history of medicine and medical humanities in Ireland. Tuesday, 9 June 2015.

The Weird and Wonderful in the History of Science and the Environment. TALKS, PRIZES and PUBLICATIONS. Last week, a surprisingly high proportion of beach-goers on the coast near Swansea were historians or philosophers of science. The British Society for the History of Science annual conference was underway, featuring subjects as diverse as science fiction, Renaissance anatom.

Musings from a medical historian Anne Hanley. So, in writing a blog post about the unexpected academic twists and turns over these past twelve months, I hope for it to be of use to those falling down the same post-PhD rabbit hole, and to demonstrate that things might not be so grim as they first appear. How did I end up in Leeds? But how to keep body and soul together in the interim? Applying for academic jobs. During my time as an Education Officer in PRHS.

I am a senior lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire. My research focuses on gender, the body and medicine in early modern England. In particular I am interested in issues to do with the health, sex and reproduction. More broadly my research touches upon ideas of marriage, the family and medical practitioners. I am the founding editor of www. Where I blog about early modern medicine, bodies and gender. And later supported by a SSAHRI research grant.