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- About the Centre
- Centre staff
- News and events
- Past research projects
- Postgraduate study in Medical History
- Research projects
- Cultural Contexts of Health
- Do Beards Matter?
- Lifestyle, Health and Disease: Changing Concepts of Balance in Modern Medicine
- Sex and History
- Sexual Knowledge, Sexual History
- The Medical World of Early Modern England, Wales and Ireland
- Transformations
- South Africa’s Hidden War: histories of sexual violence from Apartheid to the present
- Shame and Medicine Project
- Popular Healing: Christian and Islamic Practices and the Roman Inquisition in Early Modern Malta
- Scenes of Shame and Stigma in Covid-19
- Rethinking Sexology
- The Sexual Knowledge Unit
- Staff publications
- Useful links
- Wellcome Trust
Centre for Medical History
Research projects
The Centre for Medical History is home to a number of funded research projects.
Current projects include:
- Cultural Contexts of Health
- Do Beards Matter? Facial Hair, Health and Hygiene in Britain, c. 1700 - 1918
- Lifestyle, Health and Disease: Changing Concepts of Balance in Modern Medicine
- Rethinking Sexology
- Sex and History
- Sexual Knowledge, Sexual History
- The Medical World of Early Modern England, Wales and Ireland, c1500–1715
- The Sexual Knowledge Unit
- Transformations
- South Africa’s Hidden War: histories of sexual violence from Apartheid to the present
- Shame and Medicine Project
- Popular Healing: Christian and Islamic Practices and the Roman Inquisition in Early Modern Malta
- Scenes of Shame and Stigma in Covid-19
See our Past projects page for a list of all previous projects.