Postgraduate Research in the History of Medicine

We have an international reputation for our research and teaching in the History of Greek and Roman Medicine and its reception in the medieval and early modern period. Areas of research expertise include:

  • Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine; in particular the reception of the Hippocratic Oath and the history of medical ethics
  • Hippocratism in the early modern period
  • The medical ideas of Diocles of Carystus; Aristotle and the Peripatos
  • Galen and Galenism
  • Methodism; the history
  • The history of medical historiography
  • Communication and dissemination of medical ideas in antiquity
  • The comparative history of medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • History and iconography of melancholy and mental illness
  • Genres of medical writing
  • The medical writings of Leibniz
  • Colonial medical history

We have excellent research facilities and an outstanding research environment. Students have easy access to a range of museums and libraries to aid your study such as:

We also run a series of Research Seminars within the School.

Our staff

Current PhD Projects

Currently, the following PhD projects in the history of medicine are being supervised:

Sonja Lapraik (supervisor: Dr Rütten)
Graham Butler (co-supervisor: Dr Andrews)
Natalie Hawkes (supervisor: Dr Rütten)
Brianne Preston (supervisor: Dr Rütten)

Contact us

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact us for an informal discussion:.

Dr Thomas Rütten