TRACEY LOUGHRAN
Biographic Data
| ID | 5786525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | TRACEY LOUGHRAN |
| GIVEN NAMES | TRACEY |
| FAMILY NAME | LOUGHRAN |
| SIGNATURE | LOUGHRAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6654-820X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stories Without Pattern, Lives at the Edge
Very little is known about the experience of infertility before the successful deployment of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the late 1970s. It is sometimes assumed that in the more constrained emotional climate of early and mid-century Britain, infertile couples adopted or adapted, and that prolonged grief at childlessness is a post-IVF artefact. This article employs a longitudinal study of responses to Mass Observation Project directives, traci…
History Academics Working with Schools
This Forum piece highlights the value of collaborations between history academics and schools. It is based on recent work within History UK, an organization that promotes the interests of historians working within UK higher education, and it also highlights recent work within the Historical Association (HA). As school–university collaborations offer multiple opportunities, the article brings together different perspectives, including two case stu…
Sex, relationships and ‘everyday psychology’ on British magazine problem pages, c. 1960–1990
The later decades of the 20th century saw dramatic changes in sexual attitudes and behaviour in Britain: rates of divorce and remarriage increased; premarital sex and illegitimacy became more common, even as the pill and legal abortion opened up new reproductive choices; and following on from the decriminalisation of homosex, liberation movements began to celebrate gay lives. These shifts generated new possibilities, but often entailed much inner…
Nude Bodies in British Women’s Magazines at the Turn of the 1970s
Around the turn of the 1970s, women's magazines began to feature naked female bodies in advertisements for health and beauty products. By the mid-1970s, this nudity had largely disappeared. This article examines the reasons for this spike in nude images, the types of nakedness depicted, and what this tells us about prevalent attitudes to femininity, sexuality and women's 'liberation'. Focusing on representations of naked female bodies allows us t…
Women’s voices, emotion and empathy
This article explores our experiences on a Wellcome Trust-funded project on women's experiences of 'everyday health' in Britain between the 1960s and the 1990s. We explore issues around researching 'everyday health', including the generation and interpretation of source materials, and the role of empathy and emotion in interactions with different audiences as we share these materials in public engagement activities. We discuss three case studies …
Emotion and the Researcher
Traditional research discourses continue to present academic work as rational, detached, objective and free from emotion. This volume argues that the presentation of research as objective conceals the subject positions of researchers, and the emotional imperatives that often drive research. The collection engages with the emotional experiences of researchers working in different traditions, contexts and sites, and demonstrates their centrality in…
The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History
Wendy Mitchinson, Body Failure
Journal Article Wendy Mitchinson, Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900–1950 Get access Wendy Mitchinson, Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900–1950, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 414. $39.95. ISBN 978 1 4426 1431 4. Tracey Loughran Tracey Loughran Cardiff University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 27, Issue…
Teaching and Learning Guide for
A Crisis of Masculinity? Re‐writing the History of Shell‐shock and Gender in First World War Britain
Shell‐shock is a powerful symbol of the devastating effects of the First World War on men. Until recently, scholars of gender and trauma tended to follow the lines established by Elaine Showalter's interpretation of shell‐shock as a crisis of masculinity. However, over the past decade, historians have investigated different aspects of war trauma and have placed it in different social and cultural contexts. This essay examines recent histories of …
Shell Shock, Trauma, and the First World War
During the First World War, thousands of soldiers were treated for "shell shock," a condition which encompassed a range of physical and psychological symptoms. Shell shock has most often been located within a "genealogy of trauma," and identified as an important marker in the gradual recognition of the psychological afflictions caused by combat. In recent years, shell shock has increasingly been viewed as a powerful emblem of the suffering of war…
Mark Harrison, The Medical War
In the Crimean War (1853–56), the ratio of sick to wounded among British casualties was 5:1. In the South African War (1899–1902) it stood at 1.8:1. Although bloodier and costlier than these earlier conflicts, the proportional decline of deaths from disease continued throughout the First World War. By the time the Armistice was signed, the disease-fatality to battlefield-injury ratio among British and Dominion armies was 0.68:1. Between 1914 and …
Hysteria and neurasthenia in pre-1914 British medical discourse and in histories of shell-shock
Histories of shell-shock have argued that the diagnosis was subdivided into the categories hysteria and neurasthenia, and that the differential distribution and treatment of these diagnoses was shaped by class and gender expectations. These arguments depend on the presentation of hysteria and neurasthenia as opposed constructs in British medical discourse before 1914. An analysis of the framing of these diagnoses in British medical discourse c.19…
Shell-Shock and Psychological Medicine in First World War Britain
Historians have viewed the experience of shell-shock in First World War Britain as a crucial episode in the development of ?modern? psychological medicine, arguing doctors initially believed shell-shock was caused by the physical effects of shell explosions, and only gradually realised these were psychological disorders, treatable by psychotherapy. This article argues that conceptual frameworks of pre-war medicine provided models of mind-body rel…
Nude Bodies in British Women’s Magazines at the Turn of the 1970s
Around the turn of the 1970s, women's magazines began to feature naked female bodies in advertisements for health and beauty products. By the mid-1970s, this nudity had largely disappeared. This article examines the reasons for this spike in nude images, the types of nakedness depicted, and what this tells us about prevalent attitudes to femininity, sexuality and women's 'liberation'. Focusing on representations of naked female bodies allows us t…
Women’s voices, emotion and empathy
This article explores our experiences on a Wellcome Trust-funded project on women's experiences of 'everyday health' in Britain between the 1960s and the 1990s. We explore issues around researching 'everyday health', including the generation and interpretation of source materials, and the role of empathy and emotion in interactions with different audiences as we share these materials in public engagement activities. We discuss three case studies …
Shell Shock, Trauma, and the First World War
During the First World War, thousands of soldiers were treated for "shell shock," a condition which encompassed a range of physical and psychological symptoms. Shell shock has most often been located within a "genealogy of trauma," and identified as an important marker in the gradual recognition of the psychological afflictions caused by combat. In recent years, shell shock has increasingly been viewed as a powerful emblem of the suffering of war…
Shell-Shock and Psychological Medicine in First World War Britain
Historians have viewed the experience of shell-shock in First World War Britain as a crucial episode in the development of ?modern? psychological medicine, arguing doctors initially believed shell-shock was caused by the physical effects of shell explosions, and only gradually realised these were psychological disorders, treatable by psychotherapy. This article argues that conceptual frameworks of pre-war medicine provided models of mind-body rel…
Hysteria and neurasthenia in pre-1914 British medical discourse and in histories of shell-shock
Histories of shell-shock have argued that the diagnosis was subdivided into the categories hysteria and neurasthenia, and that the differential distribution and treatment of these diagnoses was shaped by class and gender expectations. These arguments depend on the presentation of hysteria and neurasthenia as opposed constructs in British medical discourse before 1914. An analysis of the framing of these diagnoses in British medical discourse c.19…
Shell-Shock and Psychological Medicine in First World War Britain
Historians have viewed the experience of shell-shock in First World War Britain as a crucial episode in the development of ?modern? psychological medicine, arguing doctors initially believed shell-shock was caused by the physical effects of shell explosions, and only gradually realised these were psychological disorders, treatable by psychotherapy. This article argues that conceptual frameworks of pre-war medicine provided models of mind-body rel…
Mark Harrison, The Medical War
In the Crimean War (1853–56), the ratio of sick to wounded among British casualties was 5:1. In the South African War (1899–1902) it stood at 1.8:1. Although bloodier and costlier than these earlier conflicts, the proportional decline of deaths from disease continued throughout the First World War. By the time the Armistice was signed, the disease-fatality to battlefield-injury ratio among British and Dominion armies was 0.68:1. Between 1914 and …
Shell Shock, Trauma, and the First World War
During the First World War, thousands of soldiers were treated for "shell shock," a condition which encompassed a range of physical and psychological symptoms. Shell shock has most often been located within a "genealogy of trauma," and identified as an important marker in the gradual recognition of the psychological afflictions caused by combat. In recent years, shell shock has increasingly been viewed as a powerful emblem of the suffering of war…
Teaching and Learning Guide for
A Crisis of Masculinity? Re‐writing the History of Shell‐shock and Gender in First World War Britain
Shell‐shock is a powerful symbol of the devastating effects of the First World War on men. Until recently, scholars of gender and trauma tended to follow the lines established by Elaine Showalter's interpretation of shell‐shock as a crisis of masculinity. However, over the past decade, historians have investigated different aspects of war trauma and have placed it in different social and cultural contexts. This essay examines recent histories of …
Wendy Mitchinson, Body Failure
Journal Article Wendy Mitchinson, Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900–1950 Get access Wendy Mitchinson, Body Failure: Medical Views of Women, 1900–1950, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 414. $39.95. ISBN 978 1 4426 1431 4. Tracey Loughran Tracey Loughran Cardiff University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 27, Issue…
The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History
Emotion and the Researcher
Traditional research discourses continue to present academic work as rational, detached, objective and free from emotion. This volume argues that the presentation of research as objective conceals the subject positions of researchers, and the emotional imperatives that often drive research. The collection engages with the emotional experiences of researchers working in different traditions, contexts and sites, and demonstrates their centrality in…
Women’s voices, emotion and empathy
This article explores our experiences on a Wellcome Trust-funded project on women's experiences of 'everyday health' in Britain between the 1960s and the 1990s. We explore issues around researching 'everyday health', including the generation and interpretation of source materials, and the role of empathy and emotion in interactions with different audiences as we share these materials in public engagement activities. We discuss three case studies …
Sex, relationships and ‘everyday psychology’ on British magazine problem pages, c. 1960–1990
The later decades of the 20th century saw dramatic changes in sexual attitudes and behaviour in Britain: rates of divorce and remarriage increased; premarital sex and illegitimacy became more common, even as the pill and legal abortion opened up new reproductive choices; and following on from the decriminalisation of homosex, liberation movements began to celebrate gay lives. These shifts generated new possibilities, but often entailed much inner…
Nude Bodies in British Women’s Magazines at the Turn of the 1970s
Around the turn of the 1970s, women's magazines began to feature naked female bodies in advertisements for health and beauty products. By the mid-1970s, this nudity had largely disappeared. This article examines the reasons for this spike in nude images, the types of nakedness depicted, and what this tells us about prevalent attitudes to femininity, sexuality and women's 'liberation'. Focusing on representations of naked female bodies allows us t…
History Academics Working with Schools
This Forum piece highlights the value of collaborations between history academics and schools. It is based on recent work within History UK, an organization that promotes the interests of historians working within UK higher education, and it also highlights recent work within the Historical Association (HA). As school–university collaborations offer multiple opportunities, the article brings together different perspectives, including two case stu…
Stories Without Pattern, Lives at the Edge
Very little is known about the experience of infertility before the successful deployment of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the late 1970s. It is sometimes assumed that in the more constrained emotional climate of early and mid-century Britain, infertile couples adopted or adapted, and that prolonged grief at childlessness is a post-IVF artefact. This article employs a longitudinal study of responses to Mass Observation Project directives, traci…
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