Faculty Member, History
Senior Lecturer in History
Digby Stuart
About
I specialise in the social and cultural history of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British medicine and am particularly interested in the cultures, ideologies and politics of the British medical profession. My research is concerned with the construction of expertise and public service as core medical ‘values’, the influence of political economy and French revolutionary ideology on British medicine and the gendered performances and languages of medical practitioners. In addition to this, I have researched and written on a range of subjects within the cultural history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medicine, including medical sociability, asylum reform, public health and quackery. My most recent work considers cultures of libel within early nineteenth-century medical reform and their relationship to the stylistics of radical political expression.
