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Image of Florence Dissent from the Indian Medical Record

Florence Dissent (1869-?)

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.

Royal Free Hospital, London: the interior of the museum in the pathological block. Process print, 1913. (Wellcome Collection)

Frederick James Gant (1825-1905)

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

Newcastle Royal Infirmary. Etching by J. Fittler (1758-1835) after himself. (Wellcome Collection.)

Henry Martineau Greenhow (1829–1912)

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.

A table of medical fees from de Styrap’s Tariffs (1874).

Jukes de Styrap (1815-99): medical practitioner and ethicist

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.

Title page from Midland Medical Miscellany

Midland Medical Miscellany (1881-95)

One of the pleasures of working with a physical collection of journals is serendipity.

Photograph of second panel discussion

People Powered Medicine Symposium: videos available online

On 7 May 2016, Constructing Scientific Communities held a one-day symposium on “People Powered Medicine” at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in London. We are pleased to announce that videos from the day are now available.

Poster for Doctor, Doctor conference

Symposium Report: ‘Doctor, doctor: Global and historical perspectives on the doctor-patient relationship’

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

Title page from The Doctor

The Doctor (1832-7)

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

Our Pretty Doctor, Victorian cartoon

The Woman (Doctor) Question and Nineteenth-Century Medical Journals

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.

Workshop Report: Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals

The workshop ‘Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals’ was held on 30 May 2015 and co-organized by the ERC-funded ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ Project and the AHRC-funded ‘Constructing Scientific Communities’ Project.

Cartoon from Thomas Pridgin Teale, Dangers of Health: A Pictorial Guide to Domestic Sanitary Defects, showing a window ventilator in the roof of a brougham

“Dressing up” Research: Impact and Public Engagement, Past and Present

With the rise of the ‘Impact’ agenda in contemporary Britain, and the requirement that researchers show how their work has influenced a wider public, a new breed of expert has sprung up -- the writer of “impact case studies”.

Events

Conference - Mind Reading: The Role of Narrative in Mental Health

This two-day programme of talks and workshops is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, UCD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Diseases of Modern Life and Constructing Scientific Communities Projects at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Punch image of advertisements in London

Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars - Michaelmas Term 2014

We are very pleased to announce the first three seminars in our Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series. Drinks will be served after each seminar and all are welcome.

St. Anne's College

Cartoon, entitled 'A Railway Board's "Court of Conscience"--Victim and Directors

Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Michaelmas Term 2018

Three seminars in our Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series have now been announced.

St. Anne's College

Women in Medicine Wikithon

Join us for this Women in Medicine Wikithon to recognise pioneering women who deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record.