Centre for Medical Humanities Affiliates
The MHRC has identified a number of affiliated medical humanities researchers within Glasgow University. More affiliates are very welcome. Interested parties should contact either of the Directors, Dr David Shuttleton or Dr Gavin Miller. An Affiliates Day is planned, when affiliated researchers will be able to meet, network, and learn about the work of the MHRC.
Professor Jacqueline Atkinson
Email: Jacqueline.Atkinson@glasgow.ac.uk
Dr David Bain
Email: David.Bain@glasgow.ac.uk
Research Interests: A philosopher of mind interested in consciousness and perception (particularly somatosensory perception), I am working on pain's 'hedomotive character' (as I call it), i.e. its unpleasantness, in virtue of which it is bad, and its motivational force, in virtue of which it can be good, indeed life-saving. Hedonic tone - pleasure as well as pain - and its normative and motivational significance interest me in other cases too, e.g. smell, taste, touch, and our emotional lives.
I am currently Principal Investigator of an international, interdisciplinary project investigating the nature of pain, with Michael Brady and a team of philosophers, neuroscientists, veterinary scientists, and a postdoctoral fellow, in Glasgow, Paris, and Oslo. See here.
Dr Michael Brady
Email: Michael.Brady@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/michaelbrady/
Professor Kenneth Calman
Email: Kenneth.Calman@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/stafflist/?action=person&id=4cddeee68391
Ms Julie Clague
Email: Julie.Clague@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/julieclague/
Dr Marilyn Dunn
Email: Marilyn.Dunn@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/marilyndunn/
Dr Jane Goldman
Email: Jane.Goldman@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/janegoldman/
Dr Cheryl McGeachan
Email: cheryl.mcgeachan@gmail.com
Webpage: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/cherylmcgeachan/#tabs=0
Research Interests: As an historical and cultural geographer I am interested in exploring the storying of (past) lives and (past) places. Key research interests include, the Scottish-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist Ronald David Laing (1927-1989); history of medicine (especially twentieth-century psychiatry); asylum geographies; memory; biography; Art Extraordinary; psychoanalytic and psychotheraputic geographies and experience of mental (ill)health.
Ms Hazel Morrison
Email: hazel.c.morrison@googlemail.com
Research Interests: Histories of psychiatry and mental illness, especially in regards to Glasgow's Gartnavel Royal Asylum in the 1920s. I am researching the construction of patients' identities through the examination of patient case note records. My work is interdisciplinary as I work within both the economic and social history, and the human geography department.
Professor Nick Watson
Email: Nick.Watson@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/nicholaswatson/
Dr Maureen Park
Email: Maureen.Park@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/centreforopenstudies/staff/maureenpark/
Dr Ian Ruffell
Email: Ian.Ruffell@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/ianruffell/
Research Interests: I've an interest in ancient technology and scientific writing (of which medical texts are one branch), and in particular I'm supervising a couple of theses on Greek pharmacology (PhD and MRes).
Dr Jeremy Smith
Email: Jeremy.Smith@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/jeremysmith/
Ms Hannah Tweed
Email: h.tweed.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Webpage: www.disabilitystudiesnetwork.gla.ac.uk
Research Interests: Working within the fields of literature and disability studies, I am currently researching the fictional, autobiographical and cinematic representations of autism produced since 1960. I am interested in whether the current corpus can provide an aesthetic (or aesthetics) of autism, and the historical development of aesthetic trends across a variety of mediums: fiction, film, autobiography and the Internet. Other key research interests include: the literary treatment and experience of cognitive difference and non-visible disability, the language used to describe cognitively disabled criminal suspects in popular fiction, newspapers and court records; the role of diagnostic terminology in the representation of disability. I run the Disability Studies Network (UK), with Nuala Watt.
Dr Sabine Wieber (Lecturer in History of Art, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow)
Email: Sabine.Wieber@glasgow.ac.uk
Webpage: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/sabinewieber
Research interests: I am interested in the relationship between visual culture (including architecture and design) and psychiatry in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire from circa 1890-1918. In this context, I have focused on representations of gender in relation to nervous disorders and sanatorium culture as well as work therapy in mental asylums. I have co-curated an international loan exhibition entitled 'Madness and Modernity: Kunst and Wahn in Wien um 1900' at the Wien Museum, Vienna (2010) and co-authored an anthology on the literal and metaphorical journeys into madness undertaken by artists, architects, musicians, neurasthenics and royals in the Habsburg Empire under the title Journeys into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Berghahn, 2012). More recently, I have explored the popularity of death masks within Vienna's material culture of death and the body (National Gallery, London 2013).