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Recent Publications

Pranghofer, S, "It could be Seen more Clearly in Unreasonable Animals than in Humans": The Representation of the Rete Mirabile in Early Modern Anatomy, Medical History, 2009, 53: 561-586

Prüll, C-R, Maehle, A H and Halliwell, R F, 'A Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept', Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Maehle, A H, 'Doctors, Honour and the Law' , Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Sauerteig, LDH and Davidson, R (eds): 'Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth-Century Europe', London: Routledge, 2009

Sauerteig, L D H, 'Representations of Pregnancy and Childbirth in German Sex Education Books, 1900s-1970s', London: Routledge, 2009 

Maehle, A H, ‘Experience, Experiment and Theory: Justifications and Criticisms of Pharmacotherapeutic Practices in the Eighteenth Century', Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008

Sauerteig, L D H, 'Junge oder Mädchen - Frau oder Mann? Die Herstellung visueller Selbstverständlichkeiten in der Sexualaufklärung im 20. Jahrhundert' [Boy or Girl - Woman or Man? The Heterosexual Body and the Making of Visual Self-Evidence in Twentieth Century Sex Education], 2008

 

Established in April 2001, the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease (CHMD) is a University-approved Research Centre that provides a focus for research and postgraduate education in the history of medicine, health, disease, and medical ethics. It unites staff and postgraduates from the Department of Philosophy and the School of Medicine and Health and has links to several other departments with interests in history of medicine, including Archaeology, Geography, History, and Modern European Languages.



Contact Details

Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease
Wolfson Research Institute
Durham University
Queen's Campus
University Boulevard
Thornaby
Stockton on Tees
TS17 6BH