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Welcome to the newly-established blog of the UCL Centre for the History of Medicine. My thanks to Sally Frampton whose initiative this is. The Centre was established in 2011 and is located within the...
View ArticleUpcoming events at the Centre
In 2013 the Centre, in conjunction with the department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, will be running a series of seminars. Details below: Prof David Armstrong, Department of Primary...
View ArticleHow To Make a Victorian Villain (or the Tale of Isaac Baker Brown) Part 1
Sally Frampton Portrait of Isaac Baker Brown from the Medical Circular (1852). Isaac Baker Brown is something of a legend in the history of...
View ArticleHow To Make a Victorian Villain (or the Tale of Isaac Baker Brown) Part 2
Sally Frampton Isaac Baker Brown and the Clitoridectomy Operation It was around the time of Brown’s break with the world of general hospitals that he began to be heavily influenced by ideas of nervous...
View Article“I am a fool” Dr Henry Cattell’s Private Confession – 14 October 1892
Sheldon Lee Gosline Much speculation has been written about what really happened to Walt Whitman’s (1819-1892) brain, and the degree of responsibility for its destruction has been variously...
View ArticleRoger Cooter’s “Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine”– Coming Soon!
Some great reviews coming in for Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine by Roger Cooter (with Claudia Stein) to be published by Yale University Press. You can see some of them below. It’ll be out in...
View ArticleThe Tubes and Flaps of Modern Medicine
Louise Crane I’m reading James Le Fanu’s account of “The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine”. It’s a gripping whistle-stop tour of how medicine changed dramatically from the era of the Second World War...
View ArticleThe Object of Writing History in the of Age of Biomedicine
Roger Cooter I’m delighted to announce this book’s soon publication by Yale University Press. I’m thrilled, too, that we were able to get permission from the Munich artist, Stefan Birkel, to reproduce...
View ArticleHistory of Medicine in Vienna – A Travelogue, 10. -14. February 2013
Stephanie Eichberg No doubt, Vienna is a beautiful city and one doesn’t really need a specific reason to go and spend a few days in the vicinity of world-famous coffee houses (marvellous cakes, too!);...
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