This talk introduces medical history as an area of historical research and presents, as an example, my research into the history of a generation of doctors, including the first women, trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century - a period of rapid changes in western medical knowledge. Many in the group were students of Joseph Lister as he developed his new ideas and methods of antiseptic surgery; they adapted and put his ideas into practice in hospitals, households, war and peace, as they pursued their careers in Britain and around the world. The research offers a new view of when, how and where his revolutionary surgical ideas spread into practice, and highlights the importance of medical networks – both male and female.
Speaker
Prof. Marguerite DUPREE
School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
Marguerite Dupree is Professor of Social and Medical History (emerita) at the University of Glasgow. She is co-author with Anne Crowther of Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution (2010). Most recently, she has been co-holder, with Anne-Marie Rafferty of a Leverhulme Trust project grant for research into the history of infection control in British hospitals c1870-1970. Their co-edited volume, Germs and Governance: the past, present and future of hospital infection, prevention and control was published in 2021. Among her other books and articles are publications on the history of hydropathic establishments, on medical practitioners and the business of life assurance, and on issues of service integration in the National Health Service 1948-74. She is also the author of books and articles on family history during industrialisation (Family Structure in the Staffordshire Potteries 1840-1880 (1995) and on the history of government-industry relations in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries (editor, Lancashire and Whitehall: the Diary of Sir Raymond Streat, 1931-1957, 2 vols. (1987).
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