Health & Welfare Research Group 2006-07
Easter Term 2007
1 May: Children, Childhood and Welfare
Nikolas Rose, Governing the Soul Part 3 - The Child, the Family and the Outside World: sections on 'The Young Citizen' and 'Adjusting the Bonds of Love', pp. 123-134 and pp. 155-181
Alysa Levene, "Family breakdown and the 'Welfare child' in 19th and 20th century Britain", The History of the Family, 11/2 (2006) (on-line) Deborah Dwork, 'The Milk Option: An Aspect of the History of the Infant Welfare Movement in England 1898-1908' Medical History, 1987, 31: pp. 51-69 (on- line)
Carolyn Steedman, "Bodies, figures, physiology: Margaret McMillan and the late nineteenth century remaking of working-class childhood", in Roger Cooter, (ed.) In the Name of the Child: Health and Welfare, 1880-1940 (London: Routledge, 1992)
15 May: Gender, Hysteria and Society
Allan Young, 'History, Hystery and Psychiatric Styles of Reasoning', in Margaret Lock, Allan Young, and Alberto Cambrosio, eds., Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry, (Cambridge, 2001),
pp. 135-62
Mark S. Micale "On the 'Disappearance' of Hysteria: A Study in the Clinical Deconstruction of a Diagnosis", Isis, 84/3 (Sept. 1993), pp. 496-526 (on-line) Joanna Bourke, "Effeminacy, Ethnicity and the End of Trauma: The Sufferings of
'Shell-Shocked' Men in Great Britain and Ireland, 1914-39", Journal of Contemporary History, 35/1 (2000), pp. 37-69 (on-line)
Paul Lerner, "Psychiatry and Casualties of War in Germany, 1914-18", Journal of Contemporary History, 35/1(2000), pp. 13-28 (on-line)
31 May: The Politics of Nutrition
Frank Trentmann, "Coping with Shortage: The Problem of Food Security and Global Visions of Coordination, c. 1890s-1950", in Frank Trentmann and Flemming Just, eds., Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of Two World Wars,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 13-48
James Vernon, "The Ethics of Hunger and the Assembly of Society: The Techno- Politics of the School Meal in Modern Britain", American Historical Review, 110/3 (2006), pp. 693-725 (on-line)
Madeleine Mayhew, "The 1930s Nutrition Controversy", Journal of Contemporary History, 23/3, July 1988, pp. 445-64 (on-line)
Vivek Bammi, "Nutrition, the Historian and Public Policy: A Case Study of U. S. Nutrition Policy in the 20th Century", Journal of Social History, 14/4 (Summer 1981), pp. 627-48 (on-line)
5 June: Health Visitors, Child Nutrition and Professional Authority in Britain 1930-1960
Speaker: Abi Wills (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Lent Term 2007
23 January: Colonial Encounters in Healthcare
Shula Marks, ‘What is Colonial about Colonial Medicine? And What has Happened to the Imperialism of Health?’ Social History of Medicine 10/2 (1997), pp. 205-19 (already have)
Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen , ‘Introduction’, in Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen, eds., The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa (Berkeley, 1992).
Terence Ranger, ‘Godly Medicine: The Ambiguities of Medical Mission in Southeastern Tanzania, 1900-45’, in Feierman and Janzen, eds., Social Basis (already have)
Jane Buckingham, Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement (Houndmills, Basingstoke, 2002): chs. 3 (‘Colonial Medicine and the Indigenous Context’), and 4 (‘Leprosy Treatment, Indigenous and British
Approaches’)
Megan Vaughan, Curing their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness (Cambridge, 1991): ch. 6: “Syphilis and Sexuality: The Limits of Colonial Medical Power”
13 February: Health and Medicine in the Dutch East Indies
Speaker: Harold Cooke (UCL)
6 March: Old Age, Health and Welfare
Pat Thane, Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues (New York, 2002), ch. 13: ‘Work and Retirement, the 1830s-1930s’, pp. 273-86; ch. 17: ‘The “Menace” of an Ageing Population, 1920s-1950s’, pp. 333-52; ch. 19: ‘Pensions from Beveridge to the Millenium’, pp. 364-85
Stephen Katz, Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge (Charlottesville, 1996), ch. 1: ‘The Aged Body and the Discourse of Senescence’, pp. 27-48
Christoph Conrad, ‘Old Age and the Health Care System in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’ in Paul Johnson, ed., Old Age (London, 1998), pp. 132- 45
Patrice Bourdelais, ‘The Ageing of the Population: Relevant Question or Obsolete Notion?’, in Johnson, ed., Old Age, pp. 110-32
Michaelmas Term 2006
17 October: Foucault and the Creation of Knowledge about Health and Welfare
Reading Group
Jeffrey Weeks, ‘Foucault for Historians’ History Workshop Journal, 14 1 (1982), pp. 106-119
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure (1984; repr. New York, 1990), introduction and chs. 1-3, pp. 1-32
Jan Goldstein, ‘Foucault among the Sociologists: the “Disciplines” and the History of Professions’, History and Theory, 23 2 (1984), pp. 170-92
Arthur Kleinman, ‘The Cultural Construction of Illness Experience and Behavior, 2: A model of Somatization of Dysphoric Affects and Affective Disorders,’ in Arthur Kleinman, Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An
Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry (University of California Press, 1980), pp. 146-78
31 October: Managing Global Health Concerns, 1851-1945
Paul Weindling, ‘Introduction: Constructing International Health Between the Wars’, pp. 1-16, in Paul Weindling, ed., International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918-39 (Cambridge, 1995)
Martin David Dubin, ‘The League of Nations Health Organisation’, in Weindling, ed., International Health, pp. 56-80
Mark Harrison, ‘Disease, diplomacy and international commerce: the origins of international sanitary regulation in the nineteenth’, Journal of Global History, 1 / 2 (2006), pp. 197-217
V. Huber, 'The Unification of the Globe by Disease? The International Sanitary Conferences on Cholera, 1851-1894', The Historical Journal, 49 (2006), pp. 453-76
7 November: Fred Soper, the Rockefeller Foundation and the politics of treating disease in Latin America
Speaker: Nancy Stepan (Columbia University)
21 November: Gender, Work and Welfare
Carole Pateman, ‘The Patriarchal Welfare State’, in Christopher Pierson and Francis G. Castles, ed., The Welfare State Reader (1988; repr. Oxford, 2000), pp. 133- 53.
S. Pederson, Family, Dependence and the Origins of the Welfare State (Cambridge, 1990), ch. 1: ‘The Family in Question: State and family in prewar thought and
politics’, pp. 23-78
Linda Gordon, ‘Social insurance and public assistance: the influence of gender in welfare thought in the United States, 1890-1935’, AHR, 97/1 (1992), pp. 19-54
Optional: Mary Daly and Catherine Rake, Gender and the Welfare State: Care, Work and Welfare in Europe and the USA (Oxford, 2003), ch. 1: ‘Studying the Welfare State and Gender: The insights of existing work’ (pp. 10-31) and ch. 4: ‘Gender and Work’ (pp. 70-91)
