Monthly Archives: February 2013

Wellcome Unit Seminar 4 March

Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (Venice: Presso Cristoforo Tomasini, 1645) via Internet Archive

Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia (Venice: Presso Cristoforo Tomasini, 1645) via Internet Archive

Hilary Term 2013 History of Medicine Seminar Series

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

This term’s seminars have been convened by Dr Sloan Mahone on the theme of ‘‘Local and Global Perspectives in the History of Medicine’.  Each week we will post a blog on the upcoming seminar with detail of the topic and speaker.

The seminars are on Mondays at 2.15pm
Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

Week 8 – 4 March
Na’ama Cohen-Hanegbi, University of Tel Aviv
Between Humors and Sins – Treating Emotions in Late Medieval Medicine

About the Speaker
Na’ama Cohen-Hanegbi is spending the year 2012-2013 at Wolfson College, Oxford. She is a historian of medicine, with research interests in history of emotions, and religion and medicine.  Along with Dr Daniel Andersson she is organising a study day on the intellectual consequences of pastoral care from the late medieval to early modern period.

Selected Publications

  • Pain as Emotion: The Role of Emotional Pain in Fifteenth-Century Italian Medicine and Confession in Knowledge and Pain, eds. Cohen, Esther, Leona Toker, Manuela Consonni and Otniel E. Dror ( Rodopi, 2012) On order for  Wellcome Unit Library. Available at the Wellcome Library London
  • The Emotional Body of Women: Medical Practice between the 13th and 15th Centuries in Le sujet des émotions au Moyen Âge, ed. D. Boquet et P. Nagy (Beauchesne, 2009) Available in Bodleian Libraries
  • The Matter of Emotions: Priests and Physicians on the Movements of the Soul, in Convergence/Divergence: The Politics of Late Medieval English Devotional and Medical Discourses, ed. Denis Renevey and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, Special issue of Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies, 72 (2009) – Available at the British Library and Wellcome Library London

Related Publications in the Wellcome Unit Library

  • Passions and Tempers: a History of the Humours by Noga Arikha (Ecco, 2007) Available at QP90.5 ARI 2007
  • Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: an introduction to knowledge and practice edited by Nancy Siraisi (University of Chicago Press, 1990) Available at  R141 SIR 1990 or as an ebook
  • Medical theory about the body and the soul in the Middle Ages : the first Western medical curriculum at Monte Cassino by Gerald Grudzen (Edwin Mellen, 2007) Available at R141 GRU 2007
  • Reading the early modern passions: essays in the cultural history of emotion edited by Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson (University pf Pennsylvania Press, 2004) Available at PN715 REA 2004
  •  Matters of the heart : history, medicine, and emotion by Fay Bound Alberti (OUP, 2010) Available at RC 982 ALB 2010 or as an ebook

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Wellcome Unit Seminar 25 Feb

Hilary Term 2013 History of Medicine Seminar Series

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

This term’s seminars have been convened by Dr Sloan Mahone on the theme of ‘‘Local and Global Perspectives in the History of Medicine’.  Each week we will post a blog on the upcoming seminar with detail of the topic and speaker.

The seminars are on Mondays at 2.15pm
Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

Week 7 – 25 February
Sloan Mahone & Neil Carrier, University of Oxford
Mondo Medicine: On Jungle Doctors and the African Exploitation Film


About the Speaker
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Previously a researcher at the Unit, Dr Neil Carrier has been involved in a wide range of research, mostly focused on the anthropology and history of East Africa and its diaspora. He has been working on a project examining the Somali-dominated Nairobi estate of Eastleigh as part of the Oxford Diasporas Programme team, exploring the historical and cultural underpinnings of Eastleigh’s diaspora-driven economy. Recently he has been involved in a number of projects relating to film and photography, in particular his work with Sloan Mahone and David Anderson on the AHRC-funded project ‘Trauma and Personhood in Late Colonial Kenya‘, examining the photographic collection of the late Edward Margetts, head of Mathari Hospital, Nairobi, in the 1950s. Neil has collaborated with the Pitt Rivers Museum on digitising a collection of photographs and negatives donated by Paul Baxter who conducted pioneering fieldwork in northern Kenya in the early 1950s.

Dr Sloan Mahone, organiser of this term’s seminar series, is Deputy Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine.  She specializes in the history of psychiatry in East Africa with an emphasis on the impact of ideas about the tropics within medicine and the psychological sciences.

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Welcome Unit Seminar 18 February

Glamis Castle, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's home that was made into a hospital in WW1 (credit: Maciej Lewandowski)

Glamis Castle, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon’s home which was made into a hospital in WW1 (credit: Maciej Lewandowski)

Hilary Term 2013 History of Medicine Seminar Series

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

This term’s seminars have been convened by Dr Sloan Mahone on the theme of ‘‘Local and Global Perspectives in the History of Medicine’.  Each week we will post a blog on the upcoming seminar with detail of the topic and speaker.

The seminars are on Mondays at 2.15pm
Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

Week 6 – 18 February
Julie Anderson, University of Kent
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon’s Scrapbook: Royalty, Hospitals and Spectacle in Britain in the First World War

About the Speaker
Dr Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern Medicine at the University of Kent.

Her research interests cover the history of medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is particularly interested in the cultural and social history of physical disabilities and blindness, and is currently completing a monograph on a medical history of blindness 1900-1950. Dr Anderson also researches war and medicine and has just completed a monograph on rehabilitation in the Second World War. In addition, she has written on medical technologies, particularly those for people with disabilities. Dr Anderson has worked with a number of partners to promote awareness of the history of disability, including the Royal College of Physicians. She is Chair of the Disability History Group and also co-editor of a series on the history of disability with Manchester University Press.

Selected Publications

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Wellcome Unit Seminar 11 February

Hilary Term 2013 History of Medicine Seminar Series

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PE

This term’s seminars have been convened by Dr Sloan Mahone on the theme of ‘‘Local and Global Perspectives in the History of Medicine’.  Each week we will post a blog on the upcoming seminar with detail of the topic and speaker.

The seminars are on Mondays at 2.15pm
Coffee will be available from 2.00pm

Week 5 – 11 February 2013
Tania Woloshyn, University of Warwick
Soaking up the Rays: Visual and Material Cultures of British Light Therapeutics, c.1899-1938

About the Speaker

Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images

Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images

Dr Tania Anne Woloshyn is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the Warwick Centre for the History of Medicine. Her work examines the intersection of art and medicine,  and the visual culture of light therapies, c.1890-1940.  She is particularly interested in representations of light therapies, both natural sun-therapy (heliotherapy) and artificial light therapy (phototherapy or actinotherapy), through the medium of photography – a medium of light. Light, both natural and artificial has been, and even today continues to be, a major form of therapeutics. Investigating its historical development through its visual and material cultures drives her new Wellcome-funded Postdoctoral project, ‘Soaking up the rays: the reception of light therapeutics in Britain, c.1898-1938.’

Selected Publications

  • ‘Le Pays du soleil: the Art of Heliotherapy on the Côte d’Azur,’ Social History of Medicine, accessible online as of 30 July 2012 (printed article forthcoming, 2013). (Subscription for Oxford University members accessible via OU eJournals)
  • ‘Colonising the Cote d’Azur: Neo-Impressionism, Anarcho-Communism and the Tropical Terre Libre of the Maures, c.1892-1908’ and ‘Introduction’ (with Anne Dymond) in ‘New Directions in Neo-Impressionism,’ RIHA Journal, guest edited by Tania Woloshyn and Anne Dymond, Special Issue, Summer 2012. Available online
  • ‘Zone of Transition: Visual Culture and National Regeneration on the French Riviera, c.1860-1900,’ in Tricia Cusack, ed. Art and Identity at the Water’s Edge, Ashgate, July 2012, pp.161-176. Avaiable in Bodleian Libraries

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New books in the Wellcome Unit Library

We have some new books in the library this month on a wide variety of topic.  You can check out our latest acquisitions on LibraryThing or come into the Library and browse of new books display in Library Room 1. To arrange an appointment to visit the Library, please contact us.

Books that have arrived this month include:

spitting blogSpitting Blood: the History of Tuberculosis by Helen Bynum (OUP, 2012)
WEL shelfmark RC309.A1 BYN 2012

Bynum’s book spans from the ancient world to the continued struggle to combat tuberculosis today. Richard Evans gives a positive review of Spitting Blood in Times Higher Education.  Chapter 1 is available to read online as a PDF on the OUP website.

Other related books in the Wellcome:

  • Experiment Eleven: Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis by Peter Pringle RM666.S573 PRI 2012
  • Disease, Class and Social Change: Tuberculosis in Folkestone and Sandgate, 1880-1930 by Marc Arnold RA644.T7 ARN 2012
  • Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination by Katherine Byrne PR149.T83 B97 BYR 2011

rabidRabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (Viking, 2012)
WEL shelfmark RC148 WAS 2012

Like Bynum, Wasik and Murphy track the history of rabies from early Mesopotamia through to the 21st century.  Written by a journalist and a veterinarian, this is a very accessible text, but nonetheless goes beyond gory stories and lists a wide variety of academic sources in its bibliography.

Read a review and listen to a podast interview with the authors on NPR.

Other related books in the Wellcome

  • Mad Dogs and Englishmed by Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys RA644.R3 PEM 2007
  • Mad dogs and Meerkats by Karen Brown RA644.R3 BRO 2011

seaHealth, Medicine and the Sea: Australian Voyages c.1815-1860 by Katherine Foxhall (Manchester University Press, 2012)
WEL shelfmark HV8950.A8 FOX 2012

Katherine Foxhall’s book traces the journeys of travellers from Britain to Austrialia, using their journey as the structure for her text.  She also discusses the health of convicts.  Examples of individuals are used to highlight her text. Foxhall examines how the changing environment on the journey to Austrialia affects conceptions of health.

Related books in the Wellcome:

  • Health and Medicine at Sea 1700-1900 by David Haycock and Sally Archer RC986 HEA 2009
  • Doctors at Sear: Emigrant Voyages to Colonia Australia by Robin Haines RA553 HAI 2005

The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911: the Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease by William Summers (Yale University Press, 2012)
WEL shelfmark RC178.C6 SUM 2012

Returning to the realm of infectious diseases, Summers’ book focuses on political and economic aspects of the plague, which involved Chinese, Japanese, Russian and  powers.

Related book in the Wellcome:

  • Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Politics and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century by Qizi Liang and Charlotte Furth RA527 HEA 2010

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