Dr Alison Haggett

Associate Research Fellow

My interests are in are in twentieth century social and cultural histories of medicine, with particular reference to the history of psychiatry and the gendered representation of disease. My work so far has focused upon women and psychological illness in mid-twentieth century Britain; centrally, upon the ways in which mental symptoms were understood, experienced and treated. I am a keen oral historian and the oral histories of women have played a central role in my research.