Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series
‘Disease, Health, and Medicine since 1800’
Convener: Professor Mark Harrison, University of Oxford

Week 8 – 1 December

At: The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford

Coffee is available from 2.00pm – Seminars begin at 2.15pm prompt

Cressida Jervis Read, University of Oxford

‘Metropolitan mosquitoes: Tracing the emergence of dengue fever in urban India.’

Cressida Jervis-Read is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine exploring the politics of water, health and urbanisation in contemporary India as part of a wider research programme at the Unit entitled ‘The Challenge of Urbanisation: Health and the Global City’.

Prior to this she taught social anthropology and development studies as a Teaching Fellow in Anthropology at University College London. She completed her DPhil in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex looking at the spatial dimensions of the politics of development in Delhi.

Her research interests include urban ethnography, the anthropology of development, urbanisation, infrastructure and health.

Selected Publications:

“Un-Settlement: Demolition, Home Remaking, and the Everyday Politics of Citizenship in a Low-Income Delhi Neighborhood.” Home Cultures 11(2): 197–218.

“A Place in the City: Narratives of ‘emplacement’ in a Delhi Resettlement Neighbourhood.” Ethnography 13, no. 1 (2012): 87–101

“Frontier Town: Marking Boundaries in a Delhi Resettlement Colony 30 Years On.” In Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers, edited by Ravi Sundaram et al, 516–526. Delhi: Sarai: The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 2007.

Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series
‘Disease, Health, and Medicine since 1800’
Convener: Professor Mark Harrison, University of Oxford

Week 7 – 24 November

At: The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford

Coffee is available from 2.00pm – Seminars begin at 2.15pm prompt

Jeong-Ran Kim, University of Oxford

‘Malaria and Japanese Imperalism in Manchuria’

Dr Kim Jeong-Ran is a researcher based at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford.

Educated at the Korean Maritime University and Kobe University, she is the author of several articles on the history of disease and public health in Korea. Moreover, her research has concentrated on port cities, particularly Busan, and the health issues associated with trade, migration and other themes which are important elements of globalization today.

She is currently working on a project which examines the relationship between disease and development in global cities funded by the Wellcome Trust and the John Fell Fund of Oxford University.

Selected Publications

Jeongran Kim ‘Modern Medical Facilities in the Japanese Settlement during the Pre-colonial period’, Sociology Journal25 (03, 2008) (In Japanese)

Jeongran Kim ‘The Politics of Hansen’s Disease in Busan during the Colonial Period’, Choseon History Association Journal 48 (10, 2010) (In Japanese)

Jeongran Kim ‘Movement of Humans and Diseases : Control of Syphilis in the Japanese Settlement during the Pre-colonial period’, Various Aspects of Coexistence 1 (03, 2011) (In Japanese)

Jeongran Kim ‘A Study of the Cholera Epidemics and Anti-epidemic Activities in Busan during the Opening port period, Focusing on the Japanese Settlement and Water supply’, Cultural Interaction Studies of Sea Port Cities 4 (04, 2011), (In Korean)

Jeongran Kim ‘Quarantine against Choseon Cows in Busan during the Opening port period’ in Matsuda Toshihiko and Jin Jeong-Won (eds) The Domination and Regional Societies in Japanese Empire (Kyoto: Sibunkaku, 2013) (In Japanese)

Jeongran Kim ‘The Borderline of ‘Empire’: Japanese Maritime Quarantine in Busan c.1876-1910’, Medical History 57 (4, 2013) (In English)

Please note there is no parking at the Unit.

Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series
‘Disease, Health, and Medicine since 1800’
Convener: Professor Mark Harrison, University of Oxford

Week 6 – 17 November

At: The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford

Coffee is available from 2.00pm – Seminars begin at 2.15pm prompt

John Stewart, Glasgow Caledonian University

‘Oxford and shell shock in the Great War’

Emeritus Professor of Health History at Glasgow Caledonian University, Professor Stewart’s research interests range broadly across modern British history. In particular, his work has focussed on the history of health care provision and social policy, with an associated emphasis on the history of child welfare. Specific research topics have included: municipal medicine in inter-war England and Wales; child evacuation policies in wartime Scotland; and welfare provision in ‘peripheral’ areas of the United Kingdom and Europe. He is  writing a chapter on the medical left, to be published in a volume edited by Charlotte Sleigh and Don Leggett, to be published by Manchester University Press in 2014 and entitled ‘Scientific Governance in Britain, 1914-79’.

Selected Publications:

‘Child Guidance in Britain, 1918-1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood’, Pickering and Chatto, 2013.

‘An Introduction to Research into the History of British Healthcare’, electronic publication, Intute: Arts and Humanities, www.intute.ac.uk/themes/historical/healthcare ‘Sickness and Health,’ in L. Abrams and C. Brown (eds.),  A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Scotland, Edinburgh,  2010,  228-254.

‘Cradle to Grave:  Municipal Medicine in Interwar England and Wales‘, with A. Levene, M Powell and B Taylor, Oxford 2011.

‘The Provision and Control of Medical Relief: Urban Central Scotland in the Late Nineteenth Century’ in (ed) Mark Freeman et al, Medicine, Law, and Public Policy in Scotland, 1850-1980: Essays Presented to Anne Crowther, Dundee, Dundee University Press, 2011

‘Child Guidance in Britain, 1927-1951: From Voluntarism to the Welfare State?’, in (ed) Colin Rochester, George Campbell Gosling, Alison Penn, and Meta Zimmeck, Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action: Historical Perspectives on Current Social Policy, Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2011

‘The Medical Mission of British Child Guidance, 1918-1950: Theory and Practice’, in (ed) Martin Dinges and Robert Jütte, The Transmission of Health Practices (1500-2000), Stuttgart, Steiner Verlag, 2011

Please note there is no parking at the Unit.

Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series
‘Disease, Health, and Medicine since 1800’
Convener: Professor Mark Harrison, University of Oxford

Week 5 – 10 November

At: The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, Oxford

Coffee is available from 2.00pm – Seminars begin at 2.15pm prompt

Samiksha Sehrawat, University of Newcastle

‘Medical philanthropy in Colonial North India’

Dr Sehrawat works on the history of the rapidly expanding colonial medical infrastructure at the national, provincial and local levels by examining how the colonial state viewed provision of health care for Indians. Her research shows that ideologies of rule were challenged by emerging discourses of anti-colonial nationalism and by professional groups. Another running theme in her work has been the interaction between the rural and urban areas of north India, informed by her experience of growing up in a village in Delhi. She explores the social history of hospitals through the experiences of Indian troops (‘sepoys’) and rural Indian women in the twentieth century. In this, a central concern has been the influence of constructions of ethnicity and gender on health care in the military and in women’s hospitals.

She is currently working on a British Academy funded project ‘History of Women’s Hospitals in Colonial India, c.1885-1920’. This project explores the twentieth century history of the Dufferin Fund, the Association of Medical Women in India (AMWI) and the foundation of the Women’s Medical Service in India. It will examine the intermeshing of the colonial state with ‘non-governmental’ philanthropic organizations seeking to improve health care for Indian women. Vicereines acting as incorporated wives and white women doctors acting as medical experts shaped ideas of ‘zenana’ health care in line with imperial ideologies. Her research further shows that by criticizing the ‘improving’ colonial state for inadequate intervention, the AMWI sought to expand the role of female doctors in health care.

Selected publications

• Colonial Medical Care in North India: Gender, State, and Society, c. 1840-1920. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Feminising Empire: The Association of Medical Women in India and the Campaign to Found a Women’s Medical Service. Social Scientist 2013, 41(5/6), 65-81.
• A City with a View: The Afforestation of the Delhi Ridge, 1883-1913. Modern Asian Studies 2009, 43(2), 543-570.
• ‘Prejudices clung to by the natives’: Ethnicity in the Indian army and hospitals for sepoys, c.1870s-1890s. In: Pati, B., Harrison, M, ed. The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009, pp.151-172.