Keele University
Contact us
Room 1.04
Claus Moser Building
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG
T: 01782 733200
F: 01782 733316
Research into literature, science and medicine at Keele University is conducted by a group of researchers, some of whom will contribute to the AHRC funded LitSciMed programme: Professor David Amigoni, English, is a specialist in the relations between literature and evolutionary science in the nineteenth century; and Dr Alannah Tomkins, History, is a social historian of medicine of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who is conducting research on the prosopography of medical practitioners between 1750 and 1880. Dr Tomkins convenes the seminar series Science in the Humanities for Keele's Research Institute of Humanities - see:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/humanities/events/science.html
and teaches history of medicine for the University's School of Medicine. A key focus for the further development of the relationship between medicine and the humanities is the recently validated route, MRes (Humanities) Medical Humanities, which operates for the first time from September 2009 - see:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/humanities/documents/MedicalHumanities.pdf.
Contributors to the programme also include Dr Lisetta Lovett, Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer based at the Clinical Education Centre, University Hospital of North Staffordshire. She has a particular interest in history of medicine, is a Fellow of the Society of Apothecaries, History of Medicine division, and has published on the madhousekeeper and moral therapist, Thomas Bakewell.
Professor Susan Bruce, Head of the School of Humanities, who has published on Bacon and on eighteenth-century century debates about gynaecology and midwifery; and Dr Emma Waterton, RCUK Fellow in Heritage Studies (History).
