Media Reviews

Media Reviews

Most graduate students have a pretty good idea of the flaws in their own dissertations even as they hand them over to their committees. Then, after defence, they hopefully have an even clearer idea of what needs to be revisited, emphasised or pared as they start thinking about publication. Knowledge of the flaws in one's own work are fairly pronounced at this stage, along with the hope that the...

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The Eugenics Society digital archive, part of 'Codebreakers: makers of modern genetics', The Wellcome Library, London. With relatively little fanfare, the Wellcome Library in London has digitised a number of its significant collections relating to the history of genetics. For historians of science, this is a tremendous resource that is currently matched by only a few other libraries or archives...

Media Reviews

The George Marshall Medical Museum's new exhibition 'The Infirmary', which has recently opened in Worcester in the UK, aims to develop public understanding of the History of Science. It is housed on the site of the former Worcester Infirmary which, established in 1771 and closed in 2002, is where Charles Hastings founded the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association in 1832. Based in a buildi...

Introducing the new Media Reviews section...

We are pleased to introduce the media review section of Medical History. As new technologies and a growing desire to engage with global audiences have led many historians to change and adapt their scholarship in a variety of novel ways, we believe that it is of great value to look critically at, and to engage with, the wide variety of media that illuminate the history of medicine. The internet,...

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