People

The research team is based at the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology. Led by Professor Joanna Bourke (Principal Researcher), it includes Dr Carmen Mangion (Researcher), Dr Louise Hide (Researcher) and Dr Jeremy Davies (Fellow). Our advisory board includes senior academics, clinicians and health service strategists.

We have appointed three Visiting Fellows who will take up their appointments in 2012.

Daniel S. Goldberg, J.D., Ph.D is an assistant professor in the Department
of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studies at the Brody School of Medicine,
East Carolina University, U.S.  His historical research focuses on two topics in mid to late nineteenth-century America and Britain: the history of medical imaging, especially the history of early American roentgenology, and the history of pain without lesion. During the Visiting Fellowship, he will be completing work comparing the beliefs, attitudes and practices of leading British neurologists with those of their American counterparts. He is planning a public workshop that will address objectivity, neurology, pathological anatomy and the body in the nineteenth century.

Lynn Botelho, Ph.D is currently a Distinguished Faculty for Research and University Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  She is also a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.  She will use her Fellowship to research the physical pain of aching joints and the mental anguish of declining authority that often prompted the early modern England's ageing population to feel and call themselves 'old'.  She will give a series of public talks to groups of older people about ageing in the past.  Finally, her fellowship will culminate in a public conference that will focus on pain in old age from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Read more about her work here.

Rob Boddice Ph.D, is a Research Fellow at the Languages of Emotion Cluster, Freie Universität, Berlin. His research has focused on the history of the human-animal relation, cruelty, callousness and anthropocentrism. He is currently working on institutional and social practices related to different concepts of compassion as sympathetic pain in late Victorian Britain. He will use the fellowship to conduct research on early Darwinist attempts to prescribe moral action through a natural-law understanding of the evolution of compassion. He is planning a public workshop on the theme of 'Pain as Emotion; Emotion as Pain'.

We would welcome discussions with a clinician or scientist working on pain, with a view to a collaboration under the Wellcome Trust's ‘Short Term Research Leave for Clinicians and Scientists’ scheme. More information at: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Medical-history-and-humanities/Funding-schemes/Personal-awards/WTD003761.htm

Coloured etching, 1835, after J. Gillray, 1799.