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
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
30 Sep 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