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Location: University of Strathclyde, Stenhouse Wing, Room 105 Date: 5-6.30pm, Tuesday 10th October 2017 The Centre of the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) invites you to their annual lecture, by Wendy Kline (Purdue University), on ‘Making the Invisible Visible: The Unexpected Entanglements of Psychiatry, Midwifery, and Psychedelics’. All are welcome, but please reserve a place… Continue reading →

The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) is pleased to announce their 2017 seminar series is due to start in February. The first seminar is scheduled for 1st February, 4-5pm in Room LH104a/b/c of the Lord Hope Building.  The speaker is Paul Dimeo of the University of Stirling and the title… Continue reading →

Location: Room 104, Lord Hope Building, University of Strathclyde Date: 4pm, Wednesday 26th of October The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare invite you to join them for Dr Stephen Mawdsley’s lecture ‘Prohibition and patent medicine: A case study of Jamaica Ginger’. This seminar, which is co-hosted by the School of Humanities and CSHHH,… Continue reading →

Wednesday 10th February Dr Louise Hide, Birkbeck, University of London: ‘Mixing the sexes. New therapeutic spaces in English psychiatric hospitals from the 1950s to 1990s’.   Thursday 25th February Dr Martin Gorsky, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: ‘The idea of a “health system” in research and policy, 1891-1976’. This seminar is being organised… Continue reading →

  On Wednesday 21st October, Professor Dan Malleck, of Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario, will be giving a paper at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), University of Strathclyde, entitled: ‘Drinks, drunks, and docs: Medicine, policy, and twentieth century liquor control in Canada and the UK’.  Please join us at 2pm… Continue reading →

We are very privileged to have Professor Jackie Duffin from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario give the CSHHH Annual Lecture this year.  Jackie will present: ‘Tales from the Trenches: Bringing Medical History to Clinicians’. A practicing physician, haematologist, and historian, Professor Jackie Duffin has combined her training and experience as a medical professional into ground-breaking and infectious historical… Continue reading →