Arnab Chakraborty argues we should examine histories of healthcare from health workers’ perspectives, and highlights both the collaboration and competition between colonial and Indian medical services in British India. Colonial India presents a compelling case study for understanding medical […]
Novelist Sarah Smith reflects on Deaf history in Scotland and the challenges of capturing sign language in literature. September 24th, 1817. The High Court, Edinburgh. Jean Campbell stands accused of killing her child by throwing it from the Old Bridge […]
Sara Öberg Strådal reviews Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern: Dissecting the Page, edited by Hannah C. Tweed and Diane G. Scott (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2018) This collection of essays, Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern: Dissecting the Page, edited […]
Richard Bates reviews ‘Locating Health: Regional Historical Perspectives on Human Care, 1800-1948, a one-day workshop part of ‘Florence Nightingale Comes Home for 2020’ project. This one-day workshop, held at the University of Nottingham on 11 January 2019, was the first […]
