Newcastle University, PhD, History of Medicine

Supervision is available in: Ancient medicine and philosophy: especially Hippocratic writings; Diocles of Carystus; Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition; Galen and ancient Methodism; the history of medical historiography; the communication and dissemination of medical ideas in antiquity; the comparative history of medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean; the history of melancholy and mental illness; classical, medieval and early modern medicine; reception(s) of Hippocratic medicine and the Hippocratic Oath; history of medical ethics; history and iconography of melancholy and psychopathology; medical history/historiography as an academic discipline; genres of medical writing; interface between medicine and literature, Thomas Mann and medicine; medicine and philosophy, medicine and law. History of psychiatry, mental health and the asylum; forensic psychiatry, criminal lunacy and crime; the history of the body early modern social and cultural history of health; history of hospitals; history of sexuality; domestic/household medicine; travel and medicine. Death and burial; the history of poverty and poor relief in pre-industrial England. Historical demography and the history of nutrition, famine and mortality; the history of fertility, birth control and contraception.