Resource Enhancement

Related to CSHHH teaching activities at undergraduate and post-graduate level is an ongoing programme of investment in key primary sources to complement the rich materials at local archives.  Since 2005 over £10000 has been invested in three collections:

i. League of Nations Documents and Serial Publications, 1919-1946, (Health: Typhus in Poland, Epidemic Questions and Health Organization Reports, 10 reels; Traffic in Dangerous Drugs: Opium traffic and control internationally, 33 reels; International Bureaus: Liquor traffic, child welfare, various subjects, 2 reels; Social Questions: Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children. Protection of Women and Children, 13 reels; Slavery: Reports on slavery questions worldwide, 3 reels)

ii. The Royal Commission on Opium 1893-1895, 6 volumes.

iii. Henry C. Burdett, Hospitals and asylums of the world: their origin, history, construction, administration, management, and legislation : with plans of the chief medical institutions accurately drawn to a uniform scale, in addition to those of all the hospitals of London in the jubilee year of Queen Victoria’s reign, 5 volumes.

Indicative publications from Centre staff

P. Barton, Quacks and Adulters: Colonial South Asia’s Other Drug Problem, (Northern Illinois University Press 2006).

J. Greenlees, ‘’Stop Kissing and Steaming!’: Tuberculosis and the Occupational Health Movement, 1870-1918’, Urban History 32, (2005).

R. Johnston and A. McIvor, Lethal Work: A History of the Asbestos Tragedy in Scotland (Edinburgh: Tuckwell Press, 2000).

J. Mills, Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition, 1800-1928 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003).

E. McFarland, ‘Researching Death, Mourning and Commemoration in Modern Scotland' in Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, vol. 1, 2004.

C. Nottingham, The Pursuit of Serenity: Havelock Ellis and the New Politics, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999).

C. Sellers, Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (University of North Carolina Press, 1997).

Stewart, J, Taking Stock: Scottish Social Welfare after Devolution, The Polity Press (2004)

Stewart, J., Levene, A., Powell, M. Patterns of Municipal Health Expenditure in Interwar England, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol.78, No.3, pp.635-669 (2004)

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