New Podcasts: Oxford Brookes University, History of Medicine Seminar Series

Dear all,

The ‘Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present’ at Oxford Brookes University is pleased to announce the posting of the five papers presented to its 2011 Spring Semester History of Medicine Seminar Series convened by Tim McHugh and funded by the Centre’s Wellcome Trust Strategic Award. As always, we hope you will enjoy listening to the seminars as much as we did on the day, and please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions you may have.

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John Hall (Oxford Brookes)

St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton: A Case Study in Mid Twentieth-Century "Charitable" Psychiatry

Despina Karatkatsani (University of Peloponnese/ Visiting Scholar at Oxford Brookes)

Child Welfare and Mental Hygiene in Greece (1910-1940)

Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes)

‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’: The Problem of Plague in Early Modern Venice

Mike Esbester (Visiting Scholar at Oxford Brookes)

Safety first! Individuals, Voluntary Organisations, and the British State in Twentieth-Century Accident Prevention

Kevin Siena (Trent University, Ontario/ Visiting Scholar at Oxford Brookes)

‘The Itch’: The Strange Story of Skin Disease and Prejudice in the Eighteenth Century

With my very best wishes,