Dr Catherine Crawford

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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872301
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Location
5NW.8.20, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I went into History because of the life-changing intellectual excitement I experienced in my first year of a liberal arts degree at the University of British Columbia. I found that historical understanding was the most satisfying kind. I loved that you can study almost anything as a historian. After my BA I came to the UK to do an interdisciplinary master's in 'History and Social Studies of Science' at Sussex, followed by a doctorate at Oxford on the history of forensic medicine. I taught at the University of Leeds and was a research fellow at the Wellcome Collection in London before coming to Essex. I am interested in how ideas about the world get created and legitimised. My research has been broadly concerned with the construction of medical authority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I co-edited a collection of essays on Legal Medicine in History (1994), and have published articles on Enlightenment medicine, doctor-patient disputes, and the comparative history of forensic medicine in different legal cultures.
Research and professional activities
Research interests
social and cultural history of medicine
criminal justice history
illness and culture
theories of evidence in law and medicine 17th-19th centuries
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Choosing Your Past: How to Design and Manage a Research Project (HR231)
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Research Project (HR831)
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Illness and Culture in 18th-And 19th-Century Europe (HR909)
Previous supervision

Degree subject: History
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 21/7/2015
Publications
Journal articles (1)
Crawford, C., (2000). Patients' rights and the law of contract in eighteenth-century England. Social History of Medicine. 13 (3)