We didn't invent the 'diseases of modern life'; people in Victorian England worried about anxiety and overwork, too.
Keynotes from Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word
06 May 2017
Both literature and clinical medicine deal with issues such as subjective identity, selfhood, and the social and cultural determinants of health and well-being.
ERC 10th Anniversary Week
04 April 2017
The Diseases of Modern Life project was featured on the Humanities Division website as part of the ERC's 10th anniversary week celebrations and events in March.
Sally Shuttleworth on BBC Radio 4
09 March 2017
Professor Sally Shuttleworth has been a panellist on two BBC Radio 4 programmes broadcast on 9th March 2017.
The Stresses and Strains of Modern Life
24 January 2017
Professor Sally Shuttleworth's blog for the British Academy on The Stresses and Strains of Modern Life is now available to read here.
Why are some people afraid of cats?
13 January 2017
The language of phobia is so common today that we scarcely give it a second thought. Yet it was not until the end of the 19th century that medicine turned its attention to forms of irrational fear, following the initial medical diagnosis of agoraphobia.
Victorian Networks: The Victorian Brain
02 November 2016
Professor Sally Shuttleworth has guest edited and introduced an issue of Victorian Network, entitled The Victorian Brain.
Diseases in the News: The Heavy Burden of a Modern Age
29 September 2016
On 10th September 2016, the Diseases of Modern Life project was featured in the Dutch national newspaper Trouw.
Call for Papers: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century, 10-11 September 2016 at St Anne's College
12 October 2015
CfP for Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century at St Anne's College, Oxford 10th - 11th September 2016
Professor Sally Shuttleworth elected as Fellow of the British Academy
17 June 2015
Many congratulations to Professor Sally Shuttleworth who has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
(Fashionable) Diseases of Modern Life
18 May 2015
On 8 May three quarters of the Diseases of Modern Life team - Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jennifer Wallis - visited Newcastle University to meet with the Fashionable Diseases team and take part in a workshop.
Boating Blues
09 April 2015
With the crowds, the launches, and the world's media watching, the Oxford and Cambridge boat race seems a fairly riotous occasion.
