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Themes > addiction

Blogs

Cocaine syringe

Cocaine and Chloroform: Technologies of Pain and Progress in Victorian Medicine

This is a guest post by Dr Douglas Small, a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Literature and Medicine at the University of Glasgow and the author of ‘Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine: A 7% Solution for Modern Professionalism’.
26 Sep 2016
Title page of an old edition of Henry James's The Ambassadors

Tales of Two Jameses: Literature, science and medicine at the end of the nineteenth century

As a research assistant with Diseases of Modern Life, I will be looking at fin-de-siècle representations of mental illness and addiction, especially as these afflictions were conceived as being transferred among hereditary lines.
26 Feb 2019

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30 Sep
Cartoon, 'L'apres Midi', showing various people in hospital beds

Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Seminars in Michaelmas Term 2015

Our programme for Michaelmas Term 2015 is now announced with three seminars taking place at St Anne’s College.
St. Anne's College

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