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Dr Tracey Loughran 


Tracey Loughran
Position:Lecturer in Medical History

Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 75650
Extension:75650

Research Interests

  • social history of medicine, health, and gender in Britain, c. 1800-2000
  • history of psychology, psychiatry, and human sciences
  • dissemination of medical knowledge and ideas of health and illness
  • ‘shell-shock’ and war trauma in First World War Britain
  • popularisation of psychological and psychiatric concepts throughout the twentieth century
  • history of women, the body, and feminism in post-1945 Britain

Selected Publications

Forthcoming:

Frames of Mind: Shell-shock and British Medical Culture, 1860-1930. Monograph, in preparation.

‘Shell-shock, Trauma and the First World War: the Making of a Diagnosis and its Histories’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 67:1 (January 2012).

‘Shell-shock and British Psychological Medicine’, Social History of Medicine 22:1 (April 2009).

‘Hysteria and Neurasthenia in Pre-war Medical Discourse and in Histories of Shell-shock’, History of Psychiatry 19:3 (March 2008).

‘Evolution, Regression, and Shell-shock: Emotion and Instinct in Theories of the War Neuroses, c.1914-1918’, Manchester Papers in Economic and Social History 58 (September 2007).

Teaching

Year 1

History in Practice: Fury, Folly, and Footnotes – 20 credits (HS1107)

Year 2

Managing the Mind: Psychiatry, Psychology and British Culture, 1800-2000 – 30 credits (HS1745)

Exploring Historical Debate – 30 credits (HS1711)

Approaches to History  - 30 credits (HS1701)

Year 3

Women, Health and Medicine in Britain, 1870-1980 – 30 credits (HS1893)

Dissertation – 30 credits (HS1801)

MA Teaching

Self, Family and Nation I: Psychological Cultures in Britain, 1870-1930 – 20 credits (HST 607)

Self, Family and Nation II: Psychological Cultures in Britain, 1930-1980 – 20 credits (HST 608)

Finding the Patient: Sources for the Social History of Medicine – 10 credits (HST 827)

Using Magazines as a Source for Contemporary History – 10 credits (HST 828)

Historical Theory and Historical Methods – 30 credits (HST 644)

Key Research Skills – 10 credits (HST 643)

Dissertation – 60 credits (HST 655)

PhD Students

Thomas George (second supervisor)

Susannah Deane (second supervisor)