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The Ministry of Curiosity has published a guest blog post by Alison Moulds on the project’s Vaccination: Medicine and the Masses exhibition which is currently on display at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

Alison Moulds has been awarded the Greta Depledge Prize for the best postgraduate paper by the Victorian Popular Fiction Association at their 8th annual conference.

There is immense value in highlighting the inspirational activities of our female forerunners; it improves the visibility of women’s history and helps to redress traditionally male-dominated narratives. However, in doing so, we also risk sanitising.

Alison Moulds has written a piece for the British Medical Journal‘s Medical Humanities blog entitled Embarrassing Bodies: The male doctor/female patient encounter.

When I talk about my research on Victorian medical women, I find that people are sometimes familiar with the names of the earliest pioneers, such as Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Sophia Jex-Blake.

Frederick James Gant first appeared on my research radar when I was examining attitudes towards women in medicine.

During my thesis, one of my major research interests was medical men and women who produced literature. While some of these authors (such as Arthur Conan Doyle and W. Somerset Maugham) remain well-known today, others have faded into obscurity.

In 1941, the British Medical Journal celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Indian Medical Gazette. Launched in 1866, the Gazette was by this point the longest-running medical journal on the subcontinent.

My last blog post profiled the Indian Medical Gazette, a long-running journal affiliated with the Indian Medical Service (IMS). This week I’m looking at one of its major rivals, the Indian Medical Record, which proudly proclaimed its independence from the

My last blog post looked at the Indian Medical Record, a journal aimed at independent practitioners in British India.

I first encountered Jukes de Styrap as the author of The Young Practitioner (1890) – an advice guide for aspiring medical men – when I was researching the early struggles in practice.

In an earlier blog post, I profiled the Midland Medical Miscellany, a proudly provincial medical journal which was conducted by Kenneth William Millican.

Sarat K. Mullick was a medical man who practised in England and India, and who passionately campaigned for medical reforms in India and for rights and respect to be given to Indian practitioners and the public.

Surgical Outcomes: A Victorian Viewpoint, an article written by Dr Sally Frampton and Alison Moulds, has been published in April’s issue of the Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

ConSciCom team member Alison Moulds discusses the medical humanities symposium she co-organised earlier this year.

The Doctor – later styled as The New Doctor – was a general medical weekly aimed at lay readers.

The readers of the Lancet were only too familiar with the ubiquity of the “medical-women question”, for it confronted them not only in their institutions and through popular culture, but in the pages of their medical journals as well.

The Medical Mirror was a general medical monthly, published in London. It was originally edited by metropolitan physician William Abbotts Smith.

The Constructing Scientific Communities team welcomes three new team members in October.