Agnes Arnold-Forster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1633889 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Agnes Arnold-Forster |
| PRENOMES | Agnes |
| SOBRENOME | Arnold-Forster |
| ASSINATURA | ARNOLD-FORSTER A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8153-3217 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Care and Crisis
In July 1979, the Sunday Mirror published an article with the headline: “HOSPITALS AT CRISIS POINT: Jobs and beds to go in cash curbs.” In this article we explore the role of hospital beds in such public discussions of “crisis” within the British National Health Service (NHS). In the 1970s, the media and politicians paid increasing attention to bed numbers as an indicator of resource scarcity within the NHS. While this in part reflected a genuine…
Senses and spaces of modern health/care
Creative forms
This article details the creation of a series of booklets designed to explore sensory encounters with hospitals and healthcare environments. The booklets were devised as a series of prompts or provocations, created to attend to and examine embodied, sensory encounters with health/care settings rather than to present research findings. Bringing together an expansive range of backgrounds and skill sets the booklets were created to sit within and be…
Ordinary People and the 1979 Royal Commission on the NHS
In June 1979, the Royal Commission on the National Health Service published its report. Chaired by Sir Alec Merrison, the Commission covered England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In 1976, the Royal Commission published and broadcast calls, asking the public to put forward their views on the NHS. In response, they received around 2,460 written evidence submissions, held fifty-eight oral evidence sessions, and met with about 2,800 individu…
Clio in the Operating Theatre
Drawing on my experience working as a postdoctoral research and engagement fellow on the Wellcome Trust-funded project, Surgery & Emotion, this article reflects on this innovative model of historical research and professional engagement, explores the challenges posed by crossing disciplinary boundaries, and interrogates the practical and theoretical utility of bringing historical research into the operating theatre. How do surgeons specifically e…
Introduction
From the stress of burnout to the gratification of camaraderie, medicine is suffused with emotions that educators, administrators, and reformers have sought to shape. Yet historians of medicine have only begun to analyze how emotions have structured health care work. This introductory essay frames a special issue on health care practitioners’ emotions in the twentieth-century United Kingdom and United States. We argue that the massive bureaucrati…
Health, policy and emotion
The Social and Emotional World of Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Surgery
Founded in 1957 by a group of elite British and American surgeons, the James IV Association of Surgeons is an international organization that "promotes communication among surgeons across the globe." Every year since 1961, the association has funded trips for several "surgical travellers" to encourage "exchange and camaraderie between surgical communities." This article uses the association's archive to explore the social lives, professional iden…
Jeffrey Womack, Radiation Evangelists
[no abstract]
Medicine and the Body in Second‐Wave Feminist Histories of the Nineteenth Century
The 1970s was a crucial decade in the historiography of medicine, and it also witnessed a new political movement. This article will explore the relationship between medical history and second‐wave feminism and argue that 1970s feminists made the idea of the nineteenth century and its medical system work for their political cause. Not only did many of them find in that century the origin point of their own conflict with the medical profession, the…
Racing Pulses
Following the foundation of the NHS in 1948, a new sub-genre of romantic fiction emerged: 'Doctor-Nurse' romances, usually involving romance between a male doctor and a female nurse, were set in NHS hospitals. Drawing on the Mills & Boon archive and the novels themselves, this article explores representations of the health service and notions of gendered healthcare professionalism in postwar Britain. I argue that rather than presenting 'retrograd…
Gender and Pain in Nineteenth‐Century Cancer Care
In the 1850s, an American surgeon Dr J. Weldon Fell appeared in London claiming to possess a new cure for cancer. Soon after his arrival in the metropolis in 1856, he applied to the Middlesex Hospital's cancer ward to trial his treatments on the patients held within. The ward had, since its foundation in 1792, adopted the unusual policy of ‘rendering [itself] available for the trial of every new method of treatment which could with safety and pro…
Mapmaking and Mapthinking
A small cemetery’
Surgeon Henry Marsh begins his autobiography, Do No Harm , with a quotation from the French practitioner René Leriche, "Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray-a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures". This article uses memoirs and oral history interviews to enter the operating theatre and consider the contemporary history of surgeons' embodied…
Alannah Tomkins. Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation
Mapmaking and Mapthinking
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/shm/hky059.][This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/shm/hky059.]
Ornella Moscucci, Gender and Cancer in England, 1860–1948
The ‘pinkification’ and sexualisation of late-twentieth-century breast cancer awareness campaigns bear testament to the intimate relationship between gender and malignancy. The prominence of breast cancer in contemporary culture and society has made the disease a fertile ground for historians of medicine, both popular and academic. However, as Ornella Moscucci observes, the histories of other ‘sex-specific’ cancers remain understudied (p. 2). Thi…
A pathology of progress? Locating the historiography of cancer
Despite its prominent position in today's medical research, popular culture and everyday life, cancer's history is relatively unwritten. Compared to the other great ‘plagues’ – cholera, tuberculosis or tropical fevers, to name but a scant handful – cancer has few dedicated pages in the general surveys, and its specialists have largely failed to convince the broader community of medical historians – or indeed historians of anything at all – that h…
A small cemetery’
Surgeon Henry Marsh begins his autobiography, Do No Harm , with a quotation from the French practitioner René Leriche, "Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray-a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures". This article uses memoirs and oral history interviews to enter the operating theatre and consider the contemporary history of surgeons' embodied…
Creative forms
This article details the creation of a series of booklets designed to explore sensory encounters with hospitals and healthcare environments. The booklets were devised as a series of prompts or provocations, created to attend to and examine embodied, sensory encounters with health/care settings rather than to present research findings. Bringing together an expansive range of backgrounds and skill sets the booklets were created to sit within and be…
Care and Crisis
In July 1979, the Sunday Mirror published an article with the headline: “HOSPITALS AT CRISIS POINT: Jobs and beds to go in cash curbs.” In this article we explore the role of hospital beds in such public discussions of “crisis” within the British National Health Service (NHS). In the 1970s, the media and politicians paid increasing attention to bed numbers as an indicator of resource scarcity within the NHS. While this in part reflected a genuine…
Ordinary People and the 1979 Royal Commission on the NHS
In June 1979, the Royal Commission on the National Health Service published its report. Chaired by Sir Alec Merrison, the Commission covered England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In 1976, the Royal Commission published and broadcast calls, asking the public to put forward their views on the NHS. In response, they received around 2,460 written evidence submissions, held fifty-eight oral evidence sessions, and met with about 2,800 individu…
Gender and Pain in Nineteenth‐Century Cancer Care
In the 1850s, an American surgeon Dr J. Weldon Fell appeared in London claiming to possess a new cure for cancer. Soon after his arrival in the metropolis in 1856, he applied to the Middlesex Hospital's cancer ward to trial his treatments on the patients held within. The ward had, since its foundation in 1792, adopted the unusual policy of ‘rendering [itself] available for the trial of every new method of treatment which could with safety and pro…
Mapmaking and Mapthinking
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/shm/hky059.][This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/shm/hky059.]
A pathology of progress? Locating the historiography of cancer
Despite its prominent position in today's medical research, popular culture and everyday life, cancer's history is relatively unwritten. Compared to the other great ‘plagues’ – cholera, tuberculosis or tropical fevers, to name but a scant handful – cancer has few dedicated pages in the general surveys, and its specialists have largely failed to convince the broader community of medical historians – or indeed historians of anything at all – that h…
A pathology of progress? Locating the historiography of cancer
Despite its prominent position in today's medical research, popular culture and everyday life, cancer's history is relatively unwritten. Compared to the other great ‘plagues’ – cholera, tuberculosis or tropical fevers, to name but a scant handful – cancer has few dedicated pages in the general surveys, and its specialists have largely failed to convince the broader community of medical historians – or indeed historians of anything at all – that h…
Ornella Moscucci, Gender and Cancer in England, 1860–1948
The ‘pinkification’ and sexualisation of late-twentieth-century breast cancer awareness campaigns bear testament to the intimate relationship between gender and malignancy. The prominence of breast cancer in contemporary culture and society has made the disease a fertile ground for historians of medicine, both popular and academic. However, as Ornella Moscucci observes, the histories of other ‘sex-specific’ cancers remain understudied (p. 2). Thi…
Mapmaking and Mapthinking
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/shm/hky059.][This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/shm/hky059.]
A small cemetery’
Surgeon Henry Marsh begins his autobiography, Do No Harm , with a quotation from the French practitioner René Leriche, "Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray-a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures". This article uses memoirs and oral history interviews to enter the operating theatre and consider the contemporary history of surgeons' embodied…
Alannah Tomkins. Medical Misadventure in an Age of Professionalisation
Gender and Pain in Nineteenth‐Century Cancer Care
In the 1850s, an American surgeon Dr J. Weldon Fell appeared in London claiming to possess a new cure for cancer. Soon after his arrival in the metropolis in 1856, he applied to the Middlesex Hospital's cancer ward to trial his treatments on the patients held within. The ward had, since its foundation in 1792, adopted the unusual policy of ‘rendering [itself] available for the trial of every new method of treatment which could with safety and pro…
Mapmaking and Mapthinking
Medicine and the Body in Second‐Wave Feminist Histories of the Nineteenth Century
The 1970s was a crucial decade in the historiography of medicine, and it also witnessed a new political movement. This article will explore the relationship between medical history and second‐wave feminism and argue that 1970s feminists made the idea of the nineteenth century and its medical system work for their political cause. Not only did many of them find in that century the origin point of their own conflict with the medical profession, the…
Racing Pulses
Following the foundation of the NHS in 1948, a new sub-genre of romantic fiction emerged: 'Doctor-Nurse' romances, usually involving romance between a male doctor and a female nurse, were set in NHS hospitals. Drawing on the Mills & Boon archive and the novels themselves, this article explores representations of the health service and notions of gendered healthcare professionalism in postwar Britain. I argue that rather than presenting 'retrograd…
Health, policy and emotion
The Social and Emotional World of Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Surgery
Founded in 1957 by a group of elite British and American surgeons, the James IV Association of Surgeons is an international organization that "promotes communication among surgeons across the globe." Every year since 1961, the association has funded trips for several "surgical travellers" to encourage "exchange and camaraderie between surgical communities." This article uses the association's archive to explore the social lives, professional iden…
Jeffrey Womack, Radiation Evangelists
[no abstract]
Creative forms
This article details the creation of a series of booklets designed to explore sensory encounters with hospitals and healthcare environments. The booklets were devised as a series of prompts or provocations, created to attend to and examine embodied, sensory encounters with health/care settings rather than to present research findings. Bringing together an expansive range of backgrounds and skill sets the booklets were created to sit within and be…
Ordinary People and the 1979 Royal Commission on the NHS
In June 1979, the Royal Commission on the National Health Service published its report. Chaired by Sir Alec Merrison, the Commission covered England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In 1976, the Royal Commission published and broadcast calls, asking the public to put forward their views on the NHS. In response, they received around 2,460 written evidence submissions, held fifty-eight oral evidence sessions, and met with about 2,800 individu…
Clio in the Operating Theatre
Drawing on my experience working as a postdoctoral research and engagement fellow on the Wellcome Trust-funded project, Surgery & Emotion, this article reflects on this innovative model of historical research and professional engagement, explores the challenges posed by crossing disciplinary boundaries, and interrogates the practical and theoretical utility of bringing historical research into the operating theatre. How do surgeons specifically e…
Introduction
From the stress of burnout to the gratification of camaraderie, medicine is suffused with emotions that educators, administrators, and reformers have sought to shape. Yet historians of medicine have only begun to analyze how emotions have structured health care work. This introductory essay frames a special issue on health care practitioners’ emotions in the twentieth-century United Kingdom and United States. We argue that the massive bureaucrati…
Care and Crisis
In July 1979, the Sunday Mirror published an article with the headline: “HOSPITALS AT CRISIS POINT: Jobs and beds to go in cash curbs.” In this article we explore the role of hospital beds in such public discussions of “crisis” within the British National Health Service (NHS). In the 1970s, the media and politicians paid increasing attention to bed numbers as an indicator of resource scarcity within the NHS. While this in part reflected a genuine…
Senses and spaces of modern health/care
Medicine (10 obras) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (9 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · History (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Art (4 obras)