Dr Alison Moulds

Alison Moulds
Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Alison Moulds is Engagement and Impact Manager on the Wellcome Trust-funded Living with Feeling project at Queen Mary University of London and Engagement Fellow on the Wellcome Trust-funded Surgery & Emotion project at the University of Roehampton.

She was a part-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant on Diseases of Modern Life between 2018-19. During this time she researched living and working conditions in the retail industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She focused on representations of the ‘living-in’ system and was interested in cultural constructions of work-life balance. She was previously a DPhil candidate on the Constructing Scientific Communities project, also at the University of Oxford. Her thesis was about how medical practitioners constructed their professional identities through their writing in the Victorian period. 

Publications

  • ‘Making your Mark’ in Medicine: The Struggling Young Practitioner and the Search for Success in Britain, 1830s-1900s

    February 2019
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    Journal article
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    History

  • The ‘Medical-Women Question’ and the Multivocality of the Victorian Medical Press, 1869–1900

    January 2019
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    Journal article
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    Media History
    © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. From the late 1860s to 1900s, the British medical press was preoccupied by debates about the suitability and propriety of women studying and practising medicine. Rather than presenting a unitary or fixed opinion on the ‘medical-women question’, however, the journals illustrate divisions and dissent. Editorial opinions on the matter—expressed in leading articles and news coverage—were often strident, but were also revised and even reversed in later issues. Discussions of the medical-women movement also featured elsewhere in the journals, in transcripts of debates among professional bodies and correspondence pages. This enabled a range of individuals—professionals and laypeople, men and women, supporters and detractors—to participate in the conversation. The journals engaged with a spectrum of opinions, which reveal much about professional anxieties and attitudes towards women during this period. The medical press did not simply reflect contemporary values, however. Rather its multivalent form actively engendered debates about women in medicine.
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