Leverhulme project Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality 1660-1832 Team @ClarkLawlor1, @helen189, @leighwd40, @historylitmed, @LozzySullivan
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Taking us beyond the human, Stephanie Howard-Smith’s essay, '‘Take physic, Pomp’: Writing Dog Doctors in Eighteenth-Century Britain', demonstrates the importance of veterinary information and (often sexist) mythology about the owners as well as the medics. 8/16
ALT James Bretherton after Henry William Bunbury, The Dog Barber. La Francia (1772), coloured etching (Wellcome Collection). The image shows a pipe-smoking 'dog barber' wielding scissors with a number of dogs around his ankles.
Yess! Our @LeverhulmeTrust project's book, Myth & (Mis)information: Constructing Medical Practice & Practitioners in 18th- & 19th-Century English Literature and Culture, ed. by Allan Ingram, @ClarkLawlor1 & @helen189 is out now with @ManchesterUP! manchesteruniversitypress.co… 1/16
It explores how a popular understanding of medical work and medical figures was not only informed but also misinformed, whether by dishonesty, false marketing, preconceived prejudice or through being made subordinate to non-medical literary ends. 2/16
ALT Book cover for 'Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing Medical Practice and Practitioners in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture', ed. by Allan Ingram, Clark Lawlor, Helen Williams out now with Manchester UP. It's a brick red and features a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson: 'Isaac Swainson promoting his Velnos syrup, facing an onslaught of rival practitioners advocating mercury, 1789 (Wellcome Collection).
& we are so pleased that our special issue of @JECSjournal, Writing Doctors and Writing Health in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. by @historylitmed, Allan Ingram, & @helen189, is hot off the press, and much of it is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
ALT A screenshot of the green cover of Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, with an illustration of 'The Village Doctress' (1787), who treats a young woman's hand while her friend looks on.
The Intro by @historylitmed & @helen189 explores how authors & creative practitioners tackled the emerging challenges of providing healthcare & accessible medical information for all & reveals a rich & diverse landscape of medical creativity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… [open access]
So much is happening this year already! First @LozzySullivan successfully defended his PhD: '"Every Woman her Own Physician": Literary Portrayals of Lay Women Medical Practitioners on the Page and Stage, 1797-1799' - congrats Dr Sullivan!
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve passed with PhD Viva with no corrections! 🎉
Many thanks to my supportive team: @ClarkLawlor1, @historylitmed and Allan Ingram, my wonderful examiners Noelle Gallagher and @ClaudvanH, and my excellent chair @ein_haus!
#PhDone #AcademicTwitter
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Event alert from our team! @ClarkLawlor1 our PI will be sharing his expertise on tuberculosis on 14 June - email @jgkennaway to join!
Clark Lawlor's postponed online talk "Ideas of Contagion and Consumption: From Fashionable Disease to ‘Plague-stricken’ Tuberculosis" is 16:00 on 14 June. Email [email protected] for a Zoom link.
Enjoying the space of the Dome in Edinburgh tonight reminiscing about our wonderful panel (and meal afterwards) for ISECS 2019 with @ClarkLawlor1 @SophieVasset @historylitmed @LozzySullivan and many others!
Our next team event! @ClarkLawlor1 talking on consumption and contagion!!! DM @jgkennaway to attend!
Clark Lawlor's webinar on "Consumption and Contagion: From Romantic Disease to Tuberculosis" will be at 16:00 CEST. Please email [email protected] or DM me for the link if you'd like to join us. #histmed
Among the hubbub of #REF2021 today we're focused on the future as our PI @ClarkLawlor1 joins the ANDA International Conference @UniTrento. His keynote tomorrow focuses on 'Connecting Literature and Medicine via Interdisciplinary Projects' 😉We might even get a mention!
We’re loving it!
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Anyone else get more excited by packages in the mail since the pandemic? We’ve used the post office more than ever and today we’ve got more great stuff going to some of our collaborators… to be revealed next week with @WordsworthGras in our event 28th April 7:30 - details below!
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wordsworth.org.uk/blog/event…. Come join us for an evening of chatter about Susanna Blamire, Medicine and Women’s Poetry. We’ll be celebrating the work of Susanna’s biographer, the wonderful Christopher Hugh Maycock, and we’ll be joined by @Harry_MckSm @TORCHOxford
Writing Docs on digital tour! Next week with the @WordsworthGras and some exciting talks coming up for our own PI @ClarkLawlor1 - join him on 23rd May for University of Groningen’s exploration of Contagion!
The next talk in our series on the Idea of Contagion is Floor Haalboom's "Animal Contagion and the 'Downside of Progress.'" Join us via Zoom. Contact [email protected] for details.
We’re delighted to be working with @Harry_MckSm and @TORCHOxford on what has become a fascinating and dynamic project on women and healthcare!
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One of our favourite poems! Come see our team discuss discoveries from the archives @WordsworthGras - online, 28th April 7:30pm! We can’t wait (link below)
'You'd laugh to see the honest wives
Telling me how their household thrives;
For, you must know, I'm fam'd for skill
In the nice compound of a pill.'
- Susanna Blamire, 'Epistle to her Friends at Gartmore'
Online event tickets: bit.ly/37cCr3g
ALT Drawing of Susanna Blamire. The background is sepia and the ink is black and white. She has dark curled hair and a dress with a ruffled neckline. There is a flowering tree in the background.
New from the project @LozzySullivan shares new research on the patient poetry of Susanna Blamire
Channelling the Challenges of Chronic Illness: The Poetry of Susanna Blamire.
Discover the life and works of this remarkable female figure who practised domestic medicine.
Read the rest of Susanna Blamire's story by Laurence Sullivan @writingdocs
tinyurl.com/3nadrh4k
ALT Image of a painting of an 18th century female figure
Such an exciting event!!!
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Hot on the heels of Allan Ingram’s new book we have award successes for 2 of our cohort - well done to @bethany_brigham, @historylitmed and all of the 2021 Stephen Copley Award winners! Hats off to @BARS_official for championing next generation research too!
CONGRATULATIONS to our Stephen Copley Awards winners! @historylitmed @bethany_brigham @GoodgeCharlotte @FranKilloran @LewisPRoberts Deven Marie Parker & Hayley Braithwaite. We can't wait to hear about your research. Announcement from @drdanielcook here: bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4041
Starting the week with some exciting news - the publication of our very own Prof. Allan Ingram's new book Swift, Pope and the Doctors: Medicine and Writing in the Early Eighteenth Century (Brill, 2022)
We can't wait to get our hands on a copy!!
brill.com/view/title/61340
Comes study with us!!! All enquiries welcome! – at Gateshead, England
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Funding opportunities to study with us, we’re happy to explore possibilities for literature and medicine topics (and wider health and wellbeing within Humanities!) Get in touch! – at Gateshead, England
Funded PhD opportunities in Linguistics and other humanities subjects at Northumbria:
findaphd.com/phds/programme/…