Academic Publications.

Books

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• The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain, (Oxford University Press, 2021) Audiobook also available.

• Cold, Hard Steel: The Surgical Stereotype Past and Present, (Manchester University Press, 2022)

• Feelings and Work in Modern History: Emotional Labour and Emotions about Labour, (Bloomsbury, 2022), co-edited with Alison Moulds

 

Articles

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Academic​

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• 'The Social and Emotional World of Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Surgery', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, (Spring 2022)

• 'Clio in the Operating Theatre: Historical Research, Emotional Health, and Surgical Training in Contemporary Britain', Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, forthcoming

• 'Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism, and Healthcare in Medical Romance Fiction, History Workshop Journal, (July 2021)

• ‘Gender & Pain in Nineteenth-Century Cancer Care’, Gender and History, (March 2020) 

• ‘A Small Cemetery: Death and Dying in the Contemporary British Operating Theatre’, Medical Humanities, (July 2019) 

• Mapmaking and Mapthinking: Cancer as a Problem of Place in Nineteenth-Century England’, Social History of Medicine, (October 2018) 

• ‘Pathology of Progress? Locating the Historiography of Cancer’, British Journal for the History of Science, (December 2016)

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Medical Press​

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• 'Building Utopia from Disaster: Could the Pandemic Show a Way to Better Healthcare?', British Medical Journal, (December 2021)

• 'Polarisation, Incivility, and Scientific Debate During Covid-19', British Medical Journal, (August 2021)

• 'Has COVID-19 put practitioners back in touch with their reasons for becoming healthcare professionals?', BMJ Opinion, (April 2020)

• 'Resilience in Surgery', British Journal of Surgery (March 2020)

• ‘Sexism in Surgery: Little Has Changed’, BMJ Opinion, (January 2019)

• 'The Emotional Side of Surgery', Journal for Trauma and Orthopaedics, co-written with Alison Moulds

• ‘Doctors’ Wellbeing: Learning from the Past Can Help Improve the Future’, British Medical Journal, (October 2018)

• ‘Surgery and Emotional Health’, Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons, co-written with Alison Moulds, (September 2018)

• ‘Operating with Feeling: Emotions in Contemporary Surgery’, Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons, (January 2018)

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Book Chapters

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• '"A Rebellion of the Cells": Cancer, Modernity and Decline in Fin-de-Siecle Britain', in Sally Shuttleworth, Melissa Dickson and Emilie Taylor-Brown (eds.), Progress and Pathology: Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, (Manchester University Press, 2020)

• 'The Pre-History of the Paleo Diet: Cancer and Dietary Innovation in Nineteenth-Century Britain', in David Gentlicore and Matthew Smith (eds.), Proteins, Pathologies, and Politics, (Bloomsbury, 2018)