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Postgraduate (Research)
PhD
Programmes
Research students (MLitt/MPhil/PhD)
Newcastle current and recently completed PhD
projects in the History of Medicine.
- Graham Butler: Disease, Medicine and Mortality in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1750-1850
- Todd Curtis: Medicine,
Science and Spin. Rhetorical
Strategies and Generic Constraints
in the Galenic Corpus (completed 2009)
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Sarah Francis: Aristotle on
the role of nature in human ethical
development (completed 2006)
- Michelle Gamble: Differentiation in Chalcolithic Cyprus: An examination of diet, disease and trauma
- Natalie Hawkes: Hippocrates and the Sun King
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Maithe Hulskamp: Sleep and
Dreams in Ancient Medicine: The
status of dreams in the diagnostic
process (completed 2008)
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Sonja Lapraik: Images of
Hippocrates in Italian painting
cycles, 1250- c.1501
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Glenda McDonald: Concepts and
Treatments of Phrenitis in ancient
medicine (completed 2009)
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Nadine Metzger:
Psychopathology and concepts of
demonical possession in Late
Antiquity and the Byzantine period
- Caroline Nielsen: Chelsea Hospital Pensioners: disability and welfare in the eighteeenth century
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Roberto Lo Presti: Aisthesis polytropos. Teorie e rappresentazioni della percezione sensoriale e della cognizione negli scritti della Collezione Ippocratica (co-supervised with the
University of Palermo, completed 2008)
Durham currently hosts sixteen PhD projects
related to the History of Medicine.
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Daniel Becker: The Case of
Myxœdema: The Formation,
Standardisation and Dissemination of
Medical Knowledge in late
Nineteenth-Century Britain by means
of the Professional Journal
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Karen Bernofsky:
Bioarchaeological study of
respiratory disease in Britain
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Victoria Blake: Clinical
Science in Newcastle and Durham
medical societies, 1848-1914
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Victoria Brown: Public Health
Challenges for General Practitioners
in the Tees Valley during the 20th
Century
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Eduardo Diaz-Amado:
Bioethinization and
Juridification of Medicine in Colombia in
the context of the health care
reform of 1993
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Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla:
Reconstructing social structure
through bioarchaeological analysis
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Stephanie Eichberg: Crossing
Boundaries in the Life Sciences:
Experiment and the Question of the
Human-Animal Analogy
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Charlotte Henderson: Critical
analysis of musculo-skeletal markers
of stress and their meaning
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Carla Hermges:
The Caesarean Way. A
mode of Delivery
and its Image
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Jaime Jennings: Conflict in
the Borders of England and its
impact on late medieval populations
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Cheryl Lancaster: tba
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Kirsty McCarrison: Osteological and biomolecular study
of prehistoric tuberculosis in
Britain
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Paola Ponce: Patterns of
activity related pathology in
Amerindians from South America
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Sebastian Pranghofer: History
of the Early Modern Human Body
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Jennifer Sharman: Testing age
and sex estimation methods on known
documented skeletal collections from
Portugal, England and Canada
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Rosa Spencer: Testing
hypothesis about Diffuse Idiopathic
Skeletal Hyperostosis using stable
isotope analysis and other methods
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Julie Thomas: A global
perspective on 19th century malaria
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Anita Winkler: tba
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