Situating Medicine: New Directions in the History of Medicine. (360G-Wellcome-085434_Z_08_A)

Building on the Centre for the History of Medicine s (CHM) research strengths, increasingly global orientation, interest in interdisciplinary approaches, and eagerness to reflect critically on our discipline and its relationship with medicine and the public, our second Strategic Award will focus on research under the heading Situating Medicine: New Directions in the History of Medicine . This will be shaped by four contexts which will strongly inform our research projects: 1) reframing our rese arch questions to respond to recent changes within medicine; 2) reflecting critically on the disciplinary context of our work; 3) locating our research in the context of globalisation and global governance; and 4) responding to the changing relationship between both medicine and the history of medicine and the public. Informed by these four contexts, our research programme focuses upon four strands of work: Systems of Medicine and Health , interrogating relationships between the classical an d traditional and health practice and everyday life; Health and Governance , considering how health serves as an object and mode of governance; Histories of Biopower , with particular reference to visual strategies and the global traffic in medical garbage; and Post-war Mental Health in Global Context , focusing on children s mental health and diagnosis of societies.