Papers by Geoffrey Hudson
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2009
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Oct 1, 2010
This article briefly reviews the historiography related to war and medicine in the early modern a... more This article briefly reviews the historiography related to war and medicine in the early modern and modern periods and discusses the articles in the journal. Keywords. military and naval medicine, war and medicine, modern medicine, early modern medicine Résumé. Après une brève revue historiographique des travaux portant sur la médecine et la guerre au cours de la période pré-moderne et moderne, ce texte propose une réflexion sur les articles de l'actuelle livraison de la revue. Mots-clés. Médecine navale et militaire, guerre et médecine, médecine prémoderne et moderne I reeled out of [the] War and Medicine [exhibit] shaking-my stomach churning, my head spinning, my knees knocking. Images of what I saw have been recurring in my dreams and creeping up on me unawares during the day. It displays, with exemplary clarity and an absence of sensationalism, a truly staggering history of a hundred and fifty years of appalling human suffering and of equally inspiring human ingenuity and compassion. 1 So wrote Rupert Christiansen in his Daily Telegraph theatre blog on 9 January 2009. The exhibit to which he was referring, "War and Medicine," ran from 22 November 2008 to 15 February 2009 at the Wellcome Trust in London, UK. It was curated by Ken Arnold and James Peto of the Wellcome Collection, together with Klaus Vogel of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden. A book was published along with the exhibit. Taken together the book and the exhibit "War and Medicine" were widely regarded by critics as a successful collaboration of scholars, artists, and practitioners in examining the evolving modern relationship between war and medicine. 2
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Feb 19, 2010
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Feb 19, 2010
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2007
Englishmen who survived the havoc war wrought on their bodies needed and demanded relief. Over 40... more Englishmen who survived the havoc war wrought on their bodies needed and demanded relief. Over 400 years ago the English Parliament responded, creating Europe’s first state system of benefits for the rank-and-file disabled in 1593. This pension system, administered by county justices in the seventeenth century, was in the eighteenth replaced by the Royal Hospitals of Greenwich and Chelsea. The emergence and workings of these two early systems, and the ways in which their would-be beneficiaries worked them, offer a useful perspective on the history of disability and social relations.
Geoffrey L. Hudson’s edited volume collectively examines the development of disease control and t... more Geoffrey L. Hudson’s edited volume collectively examines the development of disease control and therapeutic experimentation in the British military and navy during the “long eighteenth century” (ca. 1660-1830), one of the most crucial periods of British colonial expansion. This periodwitnessed both a growing interest in the physical needs of an imperial state and the development of large bureaucratic institutions to manage a growing domestic and colonial population (often referred to as the British “fiscal-military state”).[1] “British” is a complex term. “Britain” refers to England, Wales, and Scotland, an area controlled by the British government based in London after the Act of Union with Scotland in 1707. In this review, I use the term “British” to refer to the forces controlled by this government. The 1801 Act of Union with Ireland was not complete, especially with respect to the governance of armed forces. I therefore refer to Britain and Ireland separately. All aspects of the...
Rural and Remote Health, 2014
Transforming Medical Education
Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2018
Background: Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) serves as the Faculty of Medicine of Lakeh... more Background: Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) serves as the Faculty of Medicine of Lakehead and Laurentian Universities, and views the entire geography of Northern Ontario as its campus. This paper explores how community engagement contributes to achieving social accountability in over 90 sites through NOSM’s distinctive model, Distributed Community Engaged Learning (DCEL).Methods: Studies involving qualitative and quantitative methods contribute to this paper, which draws on administrative data from NOSM and external sources, as well as surveys and interviews of students, graduates and other informants including the joint NOSM-CRaNHR (Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research) tracking and impact studies.Results: Community engagement contributes throughout the lifecycle stages of preadmission, admission, and undergraduate medical education. High school students from 70 Northern Ontario communities participate in NOSM’s week-long Health Sciences Summer Camps. The MD adm...
Journal for Maritime Research, 2013
Disability & Society, 2005
In 1945 Canadian World War II veterans with spinal cord injury were among the first Canadians to ... more In 1945 Canadian World War II veterans with spinal cord injury were among the first Canadians to have access to medical rehabilitation programs, the Everest and Jennings folding, self‐propelled wheelchair and automobiles with hand‐controls. A previous paper, ...
Englishmen who survived the havoc war wrought on their bodies needed and demanded relief. Over 40... more Englishmen who survived the havoc war wrought on their bodies needed and demanded relief. Over 400 years ago the English Parliament responded, creating Europe’s first state system of benefits for the rank-and-file disabled in 1593. This pension system, administered by county justices in the seventeenth century, was in the eighteenth replaced by the Royal Hospitals of Greenwich and Chelsea. The emergence and workings of these two early systems, and the ways in which their would-be beneficiaries worked them, offer a useful perspective on the history of disability and social relations.
Clio Medica, 2007
This chapter uses records at the Royal Greenwich Hospital for ex-sailors to analyse the nature of... more This chapter uses records at the Royal Greenwich Hospital for ex-sailors to analyse the nature of care, and to uncover how the chronically disabled patients themselves experienced the hospital. Greenwich became a 'reverse' institution, in that the ex-servicemen were closely regulated and treated like unruly visitors, while only officers and medics had free movement and influence. Although initially the inner workings of the Hospital owed much to almshouse and shipboard models, over time medical considerations became paramount. Physicians and surgeons became involved actively in governance and discipline, promoting environmental and dietary changes.
Clio Medica, 2007
The introduction reviews the historiography of military and naval medicine for the period, provid... more The introduction reviews the historiography of military and naval medicine for the period, provides an overview of the essays, and concludes that the volume highlights the value of challenging the inherited notion that military medicine was in all respects 'a good thing' for medicine and society. In addition, the essays in this volume tell us more about both how military and naval medicine were components of a wider social, economic, cultural and political framework, and how medicine was part of the process of militarisation.
British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
Roy Porter referred to himself as a scribblei: he was that; various obitu aries give different to... more Roy Porter referred to himself as a scribblei: he was that; various obitu aries give different totals. Some say he wrote and edited 100 books and articles, others 200. I did a search of the Wellcome Library catalogue: there are 250 entries under his name. The booklet produced for one of his Memorials lists over 100 books, 85 selected articles, and some dozen forthcoming publications. I knew Roy as one of this Research Fellows, and was asked by the CBMH editor to write this obituary "with a Canadian flavom:" I hope I have done that and ask that you forgive a few personal recollections towards the end. Roy Sidney Porter was born 31 December 1946 into a jeweler's family in southeast London. His was a happy childhood. As a boy he used to swim in the Thames, off the beach in Greenwich. Somehow he survived the muddy waters and began to display the incredible intelligence and love of learning that would lead him to a grammar school place and a Cambridge double first. He has described his time at Wilson's Grammar School, Wallington as "the great formative experience" and returned each year to speak to the students at Founder's Day. A long term teacher and chaplain at the School, David Jefferson,recalled that when he asked Roy (the pupil) what was necessary to improve the school Roy responded "everyone [has] to work a little harder." when Roy won an open scholarship to Christ's College the whole school was given a half holiday in his honour; he had put the School "onto the academic map." Jefferson commented that "subsequently many proceeded to Cam bridge after him, seeing him him a model." Roy graduated from Christ's College with that double first in 1968. A student of Jack Plumb, who predeceased him by only a few months, Roy went on to a Junior ResearchFellowship at christ's, and by 1972, at 26, was director of history at Churchill College. In 1977 he was appoint ed Dean of the College as well as Lecturer in European History at the University. Porter earned his doctorate in 1974. His first book, based on his dissertation, was on the making of Geology and was published in 1977. Two years later, as Bill Bynum tells it, he was "lured back to Lon don" to the Wellcome Trust's Academic Unit for the History of Medicine where he taught until taking early retirement in 2001. Roy called the move to the Wellcome "the sanest and wisest career choice I ever made." During his more than two decades at the Wellcome he was pro moted from Reader to Professor of the Social History of medicine, took only one sabbatical year, and became acting director during the difficult transition of the Unit from the Wellcome Trust to University College London in 1999/2000. As acting head Roy was effective. Alan Shiel, Well come Administrator, has commented that "under the stubble, the jew ellery and the ink-stained denim was a manager and administrator of the highest order."
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
This article briefly reviews the historiography related to war and medicine in the early modern a... more This article briefly reviews the historiography related to war and medicine in the early modern and modern periods and discusses the articles in the journal.
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