MA in History of Medicine (360G-Wellcome-085432_Z_08_A)

This project takes a primarily social/economic approach to a series of inter-related questions in the history of medicine/health and healthcare. It allows for scholarly engagement across a series of sub-themes. The principal goal is the expansion of the social/economic history of medicine/health and healthcare as a field; and the development of scholars, both new and established, within it into a coherent and dynamic group. This will be achieved through: a planned series of academic meetin gs which directly engage with project themes and which allow scholarly collaboration among Centre members; and with historians of medicine/health and healthcare nationally and internationally. the consequent enabling of scholarly publications in the form of monographs; edited volumes; and articles targeted at a wide range of both specialist and generalist journals. The aim here, as previously, is to bring the work of the Centre and its members to a wide academic audience. the further wi dening of the Centre s audience through public engagement activities directed at a) lay groups such as local schoolchildren b) health professionals. the establishment of the Centre as the primary Scottish locus for the socio-economic history of medicine/health and healthcare, but a locus with a national and international profile.