History of medicine
Medical history in Britain moved from being the province of doctors to being that of historians in the inter-war period, most notably through the work of Charles Singer at University College London (UCL). It was transformed through the funds of the Wellcome Trust, some of which were earmarked for the history of medicine, and which allowed the establishment of the Wellcome Library and academic units at UCL and across the country. The discipline itself has been strongly influenced first by developments in social history and then by the rise in cultural history.
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- Historians:
- Pelling, Margaret
Porter, Roy Sydney
Singer, Charles - Institutions:
- Warburg Institute
Wellcome Trust - Themes:
- Cultural history
History of science
Social history
Related publications
- Roy Sydney Porter, 'The historiography of medicine in the United Kingdom', in Locating Medical History: the Stories and Their Meanings, ed. Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner (Baltimore, 2004), pp. 194–208
