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- Health and Masculinity in Post-war Britain
- Rewriting the System of Nature: Linnaeus's Use of Writing Technologies
- Mental Illness and Returning Patient Care in the Early NHS
- One Person's Food is Another's Poison
- Retrieving and Preserving Modern Mental Health Records
- A Case Study of the Influenza Pandemic 1889-1890
- Assessment of Exeter Partnership NHS Trust Records
- Health, Heredity and the Environment 1850 - 2000
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- Medicine and Surgery through Time: Developing Links with Learners
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- The History of Stress
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Health and Masculinity in Post-war Britain
Dr Ali Haggett is currently working on a three-year Wellcome Trust funded project on masculinity and health since the Second World War. Its broad remit is threefold. Firstly, it aims to uncover the ways in which constructions of masculinity impacted upon patterns of psychological and psychosomatic illness amongst men. Secondly, it will explore the relationship between notions of masculinity and men’s willingness to report symptoms; and thirdly, it examines attitudes of clinicians and their approaches to treating men.
This project builds upon previous work on housewives and neurosis in post-war Britain which was also funded by the Wellcome Trust. This study has been published as a monograph entitled Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment 1945-70 with Pickering and Chatto.
