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 cutting-edge, interdisciplinary 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, Pharmacy and Health and has members from several other departments with interests in history of medicine, including Archaeology, Geography, History, and Modern European Languages and Cultures.

Recent Publications

Maehle, AH. 'The Powers of Suggestion: Albert Moll and the Debate on Hypnosis', History of Psychiatry, forthcoming, 2014.

Maehle, AH. 'Four early clinical studies to assess the effects of Peruvian bark', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 106 (2013).

Sauerteig, L. 'Geschlechtskrankheiten, Gesundheitspolitik und Medizin im 20. Jahrhundert: Europäische Entwicklungen im Überblick', Sexuologie, 19 (2012)

Maehle, A.H. & Sauerteig, L. (guest eds). 'Sexology, Medical Ethics and Occultism: Albert Moll in Context', special issue, Medical History 56/2, Cambridge University Press, 2012

Sauerteig, L. 'Loss of Innocence: Albert Moll, Sigmund Freud and the Invention of Childhood Sexuality around 1900', Medical History, 56/2 (2012)

Maehle, A.H. 'God's Ethicist: Albert Moll and His Medical Ethics in Theory and Practice', Medical History, 56/2 (2012)

Kennaway, J. 'Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease', Ashgate, 2012

Maehle, A.H. 'Doctors in Court, Honour and Professional Ethics: Two Scandals in Imperial Germany', Gesnerus 68/1 (2011)

Maehle, A.H. 'Medical Ethics and the Law', The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, ed. by M. Jackson, Oxford University Press, (2011)

Maehle, A.H. 'Ambiguous cells: the emergence of the stem cell concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries', Notes & Records of the Royal Society, published online July 27, 2011, doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2011.0023

Maehle, A.H. 'Patient trade' in Germany: an ethical issue at the practitioner-clinician interface in 1909 and 2009, Medical Humanities 36 (2010)

Maehle, A.H. and Pranghofer, S. 'Medical confidentiality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: an Anglo-German comparison', Medizinhistorisches Journal 45, (2010)

Winkler, A. 'Zur Politisierung des Körpers im Wiener Aktionismus', Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur 54 (2010)

Sauerteig, L. 'Le magazine pour jeunes Bravo et la révolution sexuelle en Allemagne de l'Ouest dans les années 1960 et 1970', in: La modernisation de la sexualité, 19e-20e siècles, Editions de l'Université Bruxelles, 2010

Kennaway, J. 'From Sensibility to Pathology: The Origins of the Idea of Nervous Music around 1800', Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2010)

Park, H.W. 'A Handle for Looking at the Mechanisms of Aging: Clive Maine McCay and the Making of a Multidisciplinary Research Program', Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 40 (2010)

Maehle, A.H. 'A binding question: the evolution of the receptor concept', Endeavour 33, no. 4 (2009) 

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, 53 (2009)

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, L.D.H. 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