Professor Keir Waddington
Professor of History (Study Leave 2022/3)
Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd
- Sylwebydd y cyfryngau
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
Research interests
A specialist in medical and environmental history, my research interests focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and Western Europe. I have published books and articles on: rural environmental history, public health, diseased meat, literature and the Gothic laboratory, medicine and charity, and hospitals and asylums. Having completed a book for Palgrave on the social history of medicine in Europe from 1500 to the present, I am currently working on projects related to: health and pollution regulation in the Victorian and Edwardian rural environment, drought and the rural environment, industrial river pollution, and the ScienceHumanities.
I am a co-director of the Collaborative Interdisciplinary Study for Science, Medicine and the Imagination Research Group, which is dedicated to the study of the history of science (particularly the medical sciences) and the imagination (literary and cultural), and editor of Social Histories of Medicine monograph series published by Manchester University Press.
Current research projects
- Health and pollution regulation in the Victorian and Edwardian rural environment
- Drought
- Industrial river pollution and the rural environment
- ScienceHumanities
Impact and engagement
- 2016 Medical Prosthetics: Past, Present and Future, St Fagans National History Museum
- 2015 Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde BookTalk, Cardiff University
- 2015 ‘Before Nightingale’, Women’s History Week, Cardiff University
- 2014 ‘A History of Bovine TB’, Badger Trust annual conference
- 2014 ‘Could you become a citizen of Victorian England’, HistoryExtra http://www.historyextra.com/quiz/citizenship/could-you-become-citizen-victorian-england
- 2013 ‘Food and History’ policy forum, 82nd Anglo-American conference
- 2013 How the lights gets in, Conversations between art, science and health:
- 2013 Festival of Death, Cardiff University
- 2013 Pride and Prejudice, Cardiff BookTalk, Cardiff University
- 2012 SciScreen@Cheltenham Science Festival
- 2012 ‘The Gothic Laboratory’, Hendrick’s Gin lecture, Last Tuesday Society, London
- 2012 ‘A Dangerous Method’, SciScreen, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
- 2011 Talk on Frankenstein and Medicine, Creative Minds Ideas Festival, Cardiff University
- 2011 History Wales, Debate on Making History, Hay Festival
- 2011 Medfest, Panellist, Cardiff University
- 2011 ‘Narratives of Illness’, Exhibition, National Eisteddfod; Temporary exhibition, University of Glamorgan
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2023. Treatment. In: Altschuler, S., Metzl, J. and Wald, P. eds. Keywords for Health Humanities. Keywords New York: New York University Press, pp. 209-211.
- Waddington, K. 2023. “Kindly see to the matter”: Local communities and the development of rural public health, 1870-1920. In: Borowy, I. and Harris, B. eds. Yearbook for the History of Global Development., Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, (10.1515/9783111015583-002)
2021
- Waddington, K. 2021. Problems of progress: modernity and writing the social history of medicine. Social History of Medicine 34(4), pp. 1053-1067. (10.1093/shm/hkaa067)
- Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2021. Pharmacology, controversy, and the everyday in fin-de-siècle medicine and fiction. In: Lawlor, C. and Mangham, A. eds. Literature and Medicine: Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century., Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambride University Press, pp. 135-153.
- Waddington, K. 2021. A flat past? History, environment, topography, and medicine. Modern and Contemporary France 29(3), pp. 115-129. (10.1080/09639489.2020.1868416)
2019
- Fitzgerald, D., Lane, R., Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2019. Two ways of telling this story: Best practice in interdisciplinary collaboration. Cardiff: ScienceHumanities Initiative, Cardiff University.
- Davis, O. and Waddington, K. 2019. The final occupation of the settlement. In: Sharples, N. ed. A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist. Oxbow
2018
- Waddington, K. 2018. Vitriol in the Taff: River pollution, industrial waste, and the politics of control in late nineteenth-century rural Wales. Rural History 29(1), pp. 23-44. (10.1017/S0956793317000164)
2017
- Castell, J., Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2017. ScienceHumanities: Introduction. Journal of Literature and Science 10(2), pp. 1-5. (10.12929/jls.10.2.01)
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Castell, J. 2017. ScienceHumanities: Theory, Politics, Practice. Journal of Literature and Science 10(2), pp. 6-18. (10.12929/jls.10.2.02)
- Waddington, K. 2017. ‘I should have thought that Wales was a wet part of the world’: Drought, rural communities and public health, 1870-1914. Social History of Medicine 30(3), pp. 590-611. (10.1093/shm/hkw118)
- Waddington, K. 2017. The good, the bad and the ugly: sources for essays. In: Loughran, T. ed. A Practical Guide to Studying History. Skills and Approaches. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 185-195.
2015
- Waddington, K. 2015. Introduction. In: Overy, C. and Tansey, E. M. eds. A History of Bovine TB, c.1965-c.2000., Vol. 55. Wellcome Witness to Contemporary Medicine Vol. 55. London: Queen Marty University of London, pp. xv-xviii.
- Mandal, A. and Waddington, K. 2015. The pathology of common life: ‘Domestic’ medicine as Gothic disruption. Gothic Studies 17(1), pp. 43-60. (10.7227/GS.17.1.4)
2014
- Waddington, K. 2014. Thinking regionally: narrative, the medical humanities and region. Medical Humanities 41, pp. 51-56. (10.1136/medhum-2014-010579)
- Waddington, K. 2014. “In a country every way by nature favourable to health”: Landscape and public health in Victorian rural Wales. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 31(2), pp. 183-204. (10.3138/cbmh.31.2.183)
2013
- Waddington, K. 2013. "We don't want any German sausages here!" Food, fear, and the German nation in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Journal of British Studies 52(4), pp. 1017-1042. (10.1017/jbr.2013.178)
- Waddington, K. 2013. Death at St Bernard's: anti-vivisection, medicine and the Gothic. Journal of Victorian Culture 18(2), pp. 246-262. (10.1080/13555502.2013.778209)
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Marsden, R. 2013. Imaginary investments: illness narratives beyond the gaze. Journal of Literature and Science 6(1), pp. 55-73. (10.12929/jls.06.1.04)
- Waddington, K. 2013. Forum: Victorian Built Environments: University College Hospital. Victorian Review 39(1), pp. 50-54.
2012
- Waddington, K. 2012. 'It might not be a nuisance in a country cottage': Sanitary conditions and images of health in Victorian rural Wales. Rural History 23(2), pp. 185-204. (10.1017/S0956793312000064)
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Marsden, R. 2012. The off-sick project. [Website].
2011
- Waddington, K. 2011. An introduction to the social history of medicine: Europe since 1500. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Waddington, K. 2011. The Dangerous Sausage: Diet, Meat and Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Cultural and Social History 8(1), pp. 51-71. (10.2752/147800411X12858412044393)
- Waddington, K., Thomas, R. and Willis, M. 2011. General paralysis of the insane. Practical Neurology 11, pp. 366-369. (10.1136/practneurol-2011-000112)
- Waddington, K., Thomas, R. H. and Willis, M. 2011. Reading general paralysis of the insane. Practical Neurology 11(6), pp. 366-369. (10.1136/practneurol-2011-000112)
2010
- Waddington, K. 2010. More like cooking than science: Narrating the Inside of the laboratory, Britain 1880-1914. Journal of Literature and Science 3(1), pp. 50-70.
- Waddington, K. 2010. Mad and coughing cows: Bovine tuberculosis, BSE and health in twentieth century Britain. In: Cantor, D., Bonah, C. and Dörries, M. eds. Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine London: Pickering & Chatto, pp. 159-177.
2009
- Waddington, K. 2009. 'Not for ourselves, but for the others?': Die Rhetorik der Wohltätigkeit und der sozialen Zurschaustellung. In: Liedke, R. and Weber, K. eds. Religion und Philanthropie in den Europäischen Zivilgesellschaften. Entwicklungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Ferdinand Schöningh, pp. 55-71.
2006
- Waddington, K. 2006. The bovine scourge: neat, tuberculosis and public health, 1850-1914. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
- Waddington, K. 2006. Paying for the sick poor: financing a poor law workhouse. In: Gorsky, M. and Sheard, S. eds. Financing British Medicine: The British Experience since 1750. Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine London: Routledge, pp. 95-111.
2005
- Waddington, K. 2005. Hotbeds of Bohemianism? Teaching hospitals, clinical care and the patient, 1800-1914. In: Andresen, A., Gronlie, T. and Skålevåg, S. A. eds. Hospitals, Patients and Medicine 1800-2000. Rokkan Centre, pp. 79-81.
2004
- Waddington, K. 2004. To stamp out "so terrible a malady": Bovine tuberculosis and tuberculin testing in Britain, 1890-1939. Medical History 48(1), pp. 29-48. (10.1017/S0025727300007043)
2003
- Waddington, K. 2003. Medical education at St. Bartholomew's hospital, 1123 - 1995. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
- Waddington, K. 2003. Subscribing to a Democracy? Management and the Voluntary Ideology of the London Hospitals, 1850-1900. English Historical Review 118(476), pp. 357-379. (10.1093/ehr/118.476.357)
- Waddington, K. 2003. "Unfit for human consumption": Tuberculosis and the problem of infected meat in late Victorian Britain. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77(3), pp. 636-661. (10.1353/bhm.2003.0147)
2002
- Waddington, K. 2002. Mayhem and medical students: Image, conduct, and control in the Victorian and Edwardian London Teaching Hospital. Social History of Medicine 15(1), pp. 45-64. (10.1093/shm/15.1.45)
2001
- Waddington, K. 2001. The science of cows: Tuberculosis, research and the state in the United Kingdom, 1890-1914. History of Science 39(3/125), pp. 355-381.
2000
- Waddington, K. 2000. 'Leaders of Educational Purpose': the foundation of academic medicine 1890s-1940s. Medical Education 34(12), pp. 1032-1035. (10.1111/j.1365-2923.2000.00827.x)
- Waddington, K. 2000. Charity and the London hospitals, 1850-1898. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
1998
- Waddington, K. 1998. Unsuitable cases: The debate over outpatient admissions, the medical profession and late-Victorian London Hospitals. Medical History 42(1), pp. 26-46.
- Waddington, K. 1998. Enemies within: Postwar Bethlem and the Maudsley. In: Gijswijt-Hofstra, M. and Porter, R. eds. Culture of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands. Amsterdam: Rodopi Bv Editions, pp. 185-202.
1997
- Andrews, J., Briggs, A., Porter, R., Tucker, P. and Waddington, K. 1997. History of Bethlem. Abingdon: Routledge.
1995
- Waddington, K. 1995. The Nursing Dispute at Guy's Hospital, 1879–1880. Social History of Medicine 8(2), pp. 211-230. (10.1093/shm/8.2.211)
1994
- Waddington, K. 1994. Bastard benevolence: centralisation, voluntarism and the Sunday Fund 1873–1898. The London Journal 19(2), pp. 151-167.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2023. Treatment. In: Altschuler, S., Metzl, J. and Wald, P. eds. Keywords for Health Humanities. Keywords New York: New York University Press, pp. 209-211.
- Waddington, K. 2023. “Kindly see to the matter”: Local communities and the development of rural public health, 1870-1920. In: Borowy, I. and Harris, B. eds. Yearbook for the History of Global Development., Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, (10.1515/9783111015583-002)
- Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2021. Pharmacology, controversy, and the everyday in fin-de-siècle medicine and fiction. In: Lawlor, C. and Mangham, A. eds. Literature and Medicine: Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century., Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambride University Press, pp. 135-153.
- Davis, O. and Waddington, K. 2019. The final occupation of the settlement. In: Sharples, N. ed. A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist. Oxbow
- Waddington, K. 2017. The good, the bad and the ugly: sources for essays. In: Loughran, T. ed. A Practical Guide to Studying History. Skills and Approaches. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 185-195.
- Waddington, K. 2015. Introduction. In: Overy, C. and Tansey, E. M. eds. A History of Bovine TB, c.1965-c.2000., Vol. 55. Wellcome Witness to Contemporary Medicine Vol. 55. London: Queen Marty University of London, pp. xv-xviii.
- Waddington, K. 2010. Mad and coughing cows: Bovine tuberculosis, BSE and health in twentieth century Britain. In: Cantor, D., Bonah, C. and Dörries, M. eds. Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine London: Pickering & Chatto, pp. 159-177.
- Waddington, K. 2009. 'Not for ourselves, but for the others?': Die Rhetorik der Wohltätigkeit und der sozialen Zurschaustellung. In: Liedke, R. and Weber, K. eds. Religion und Philanthropie in den Europäischen Zivilgesellschaften. Entwicklungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Ferdinand Schöningh, pp. 55-71.
- Waddington, K. 2006. Paying for the sick poor: financing a poor law workhouse. In: Gorsky, M. and Sheard, S. eds. Financing British Medicine: The British Experience since 1750. Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine London: Routledge, pp. 95-111.
- Waddington, K. 2005. Hotbeds of Bohemianism? Teaching hospitals, clinical care and the patient, 1800-1914. In: Andresen, A., Gronlie, T. and Skålevåg, S. A. eds. Hospitals, Patients and Medicine 1800-2000. Rokkan Centre, pp. 79-81.
- Waddington, K. 1998. Enemies within: Postwar Bethlem and the Maudsley. In: Gijswijt-Hofstra, M. and Porter, R. eds. Culture of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands. Amsterdam: Rodopi Bv Editions, pp. 185-202.
Arddangosfeydd
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Marsden, R. 2012. The off-sick project. [Website].
Erthyglau
- Waddington, K. 2021. Problems of progress: modernity and writing the social history of medicine. Social History of Medicine 34(4), pp. 1053-1067. (10.1093/shm/hkaa067)
- Waddington, K. 2021. A flat past? History, environment, topography, and medicine. Modern and Contemporary France 29(3), pp. 115-129. (10.1080/09639489.2020.1868416)
- Waddington, K. 2018. Vitriol in the Taff: River pollution, industrial waste, and the politics of control in late nineteenth-century rural Wales. Rural History 29(1), pp. 23-44. (10.1017/S0956793317000164)
- Castell, J., Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2017. ScienceHumanities: Introduction. Journal of Literature and Science 10(2), pp. 1-5. (10.12929/jls.10.2.01)
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Castell, J. 2017. ScienceHumanities: Theory, Politics, Practice. Journal of Literature and Science 10(2), pp. 6-18. (10.12929/jls.10.2.02)
- Waddington, K. 2017. ‘I should have thought that Wales was a wet part of the world’: Drought, rural communities and public health, 1870-1914. Social History of Medicine 30(3), pp. 590-611. (10.1093/shm/hkw118)
- Mandal, A. and Waddington, K. 2015. The pathology of common life: ‘Domestic’ medicine as Gothic disruption. Gothic Studies 17(1), pp. 43-60. (10.7227/GS.17.1.4)
- Waddington, K. 2014. Thinking regionally: narrative, the medical humanities and region. Medical Humanities 41, pp. 51-56. (10.1136/medhum-2014-010579)
- Waddington, K. 2014. “In a country every way by nature favourable to health”: Landscape and public health in Victorian rural Wales. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 31(2), pp. 183-204. (10.3138/cbmh.31.2.183)
- Waddington, K. 2013. "We don't want any German sausages here!" Food, fear, and the German nation in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Journal of British Studies 52(4), pp. 1017-1042. (10.1017/jbr.2013.178)
- Waddington, K. 2013. Death at St Bernard's: anti-vivisection, medicine and the Gothic. Journal of Victorian Culture 18(2), pp. 246-262. (10.1080/13555502.2013.778209)
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Marsden, R. 2013. Imaginary investments: illness narratives beyond the gaze. Journal of Literature and Science 6(1), pp. 55-73. (10.12929/jls.06.1.04)
- Waddington, K. 2013. Forum: Victorian Built Environments: University College Hospital. Victorian Review 39(1), pp. 50-54.
- Waddington, K. 2012. 'It might not be a nuisance in a country cottage': Sanitary conditions and images of health in Victorian rural Wales. Rural History 23(2), pp. 185-204. (10.1017/S0956793312000064)
- Waddington, K. 2011. The Dangerous Sausage: Diet, Meat and Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Cultural and Social History 8(1), pp. 51-71. (10.2752/147800411X12858412044393)
- Waddington, K., Thomas, R. and Willis, M. 2011. General paralysis of the insane. Practical Neurology 11, pp. 366-369. (10.1136/practneurol-2011-000112)
- Waddington, K., Thomas, R. H. and Willis, M. 2011. Reading general paralysis of the insane. Practical Neurology 11(6), pp. 366-369. (10.1136/practneurol-2011-000112)
- Waddington, K. 2010. More like cooking than science: Narrating the Inside of the laboratory, Britain 1880-1914. Journal of Literature and Science 3(1), pp. 50-70.
- Waddington, K. 2004. To stamp out "so terrible a malady": Bovine tuberculosis and tuberculin testing in Britain, 1890-1939. Medical History 48(1), pp. 29-48. (10.1017/S0025727300007043)
- Waddington, K. 2003. Subscribing to a Democracy? Management and the Voluntary Ideology of the London Hospitals, 1850-1900. English Historical Review 118(476), pp. 357-379. (10.1093/ehr/118.476.357)
- Waddington, K. 2003. "Unfit for human consumption": Tuberculosis and the problem of infected meat in late Victorian Britain. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77(3), pp. 636-661. (10.1353/bhm.2003.0147)
- Waddington, K. 2002. Mayhem and medical students: Image, conduct, and control in the Victorian and Edwardian London Teaching Hospital. Social History of Medicine 15(1), pp. 45-64. (10.1093/shm/15.1.45)
- Waddington, K. 2001. The science of cows: Tuberculosis, research and the state in the United Kingdom, 1890-1914. History of Science 39(3/125), pp. 355-381.
- Waddington, K. 2000. 'Leaders of Educational Purpose': the foundation of academic medicine 1890s-1940s. Medical Education 34(12), pp. 1032-1035. (10.1111/j.1365-2923.2000.00827.x)
- Waddington, K. 1998. Unsuitable cases: The debate over outpatient admissions, the medical profession and late-Victorian London Hospitals. Medical History 42(1), pp. 26-46.
- Waddington, K. 1995. The Nursing Dispute at Guy's Hospital, 1879–1880. Social History of Medicine 8(2), pp. 211-230. (10.1093/shm/8.2.211)
- Waddington, K. 1994. Bastard benevolence: centralisation, voluntarism and the Sunday Fund 1873–1898. The London Journal 19(2), pp. 151-167.
Llyfrau
- Waddington, K. 2011. An introduction to the social history of medicine: Europe since 1500. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Waddington, K. 2006. The bovine scourge: neat, tuberculosis and public health, 1850-1914. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
- Waddington, K. 2003. Medical education at St. Bartholomew's hospital, 1123 - 1995. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
- Waddington, K. 2000. Charity and the London hospitals, 1850-1898. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
- Andrews, J., Briggs, A., Porter, R., Tucker, P. and Waddington, K. 1997. History of Bethlem. Abingdon: Routledge.
Monograffau
- Fitzgerald, D., Lane, R., Waddington, K. and Willis, M. 2019. Two ways of telling this story: Best practice in interdisciplinary collaboration. Cardiff: ScienceHumanities Initiative, Cardiff University.
- Waddington, K. 2013. "We don't want any German sausages here!" Food, fear, and the German nation in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Journal of British Studies 52(4), pp. 1017-1042. (10.1017/jbr.2013.178)
- Waddington, K. 2013. Death at St Bernard's: anti-vivisection, medicine and the Gothic. Journal of Victorian Culture 18(2), pp. 246-262. (10.1080/13555502.2013.778209)
- Willis, M., Waddington, K. and Marsden, R. 2013. Imaginary investments: illness narratives beyond the gaze. Journal of Literature and Science 6(1), pp. 55-73. (10.12929/jls.06.1.04)
- Waddington, K. 2012. 'It might not be a nuisance in a country cottage': Sanitary conditions and images of health in Victorian rural Wales. Rural History 23(2), pp. 185-204. (10.1017/S0956793312000064)
- Waddington, K. 2011. An introduction to the social history of medicine: Europe since 1500. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Waddington, K. 2011. The Dangerous Sausage: Diet, Meat and Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Cultural and Social History 8(1), pp. 51-71. (10.2752/147800411X12858412044393)
- Waddington, K., Thomas, R. and Willis, M. 2011. General paralysis of the insane. Practical Neurology 11, pp. 366-369. (10.1136/practneurol-2011-000112)
- Waddington, K. 2010. More like cooking than science: Narrating the Inside of the laboratory, Britain 1880-1914. Journal of Literature and Science 3(1), pp. 50-70.
- Waddington, K. 2010. Mad and coughing cows: Bovine tuberculosis, BSE and health in twentieth century Britain. In: Cantor, D., Bonah, C. and Dörries, M. eds. Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine London: Pickering & Chatto, pp. 159-177.
- Waddington, K. 2009. 'Not for ourselves, but for the others?': Die Rhetorik der Wohltätigkeit und der sozialen Zurschaustellung. In: Liedke, R. and Weber, K. eds. Religion und Philanthropie in den Europäischen Zivilgesellschaften. Entwicklungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Ferdinand Schöningh, pp. 55-71.
- Waddington, K. 2006. The bovine scourge: neat, tuberculosis and public health, 1850-1914. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
- Waddington, K. 2006. Paying for the sick poor: financing a poor law workhouse. In: Gorsky, M. and Sheard, S. eds. Financing British Medicine: The British Experience since 1750. Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine London: Routledge, pp. 95-111.
- Waddington, K. 2005. Hotbeds of Bohemianism? Teaching hospitals, clinical care and the patient, 1800-1914. In: Andresen, A., Gronlie, T. and Skålevåg, S. A. eds. Hospitals, Patients and Medicine 1800-2000. Rokkan Centre, pp. 79-81.
- Waddington, K. 2004. To stamp out "so terrible a malady": Bovine tuberculosis and tuberculin testing in Britain, 1890-1939. Medical History 48(1), pp. 29-48. (10.1017/S0025727300007043)
- Waddington, K. 2003. Medical education at St. Bartholomew's hospital, 1123 - 1995. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
- Waddington, K. 2003. Subscribing to a Democracy? Management and the Voluntary Ideology of the London Hospitals, 1850-1900. English Historical Review 118(476), pp. 357-379. (10.1093/ehr/118.476.357)
- Waddington, K. 2003. "Unfit for human consumption": Tuberculosis and the problem of infected meat in late Victorian Britain. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77(3), pp. 636-661. (10.1353/bhm.2003.0147)
- Waddington, K. 2002. Mayhem and medical students: Image, conduct, and control in the Victorian and Edwardian London Teaching Hospital. Social History of Medicine 15(1), pp. 45-64. (10.1093/shm/15.1.45)
- Waddington, K. 2001. The science of cows: Tuberculosis, research and the state in the United Kingdom, 1890-1914. History of Science 39(3/125), pp. 355-381.
- Waddington, K. 2000. 'Leaders of Educational Purpose': the foundation of academic medicine 1890s-1940s. Medical Education 34(12), pp. 1032-1035. (10.1111/j.1365-2923.2000.00827.x)
- Waddington, K. 1998. Unsuitable cases: The debate over outpatient admissions, the medical profession and late-Victorian London Hospitals. Medical History 42(1), pp. 26-46.
- Waddington, K. 1998. Enemies within: Postwar Bethlem and the Maudsley. In: Gijswijt-Hofstra, M. and Porter, R. eds. Culture of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands. Amsterdam: Rodopi Bv Editions, pp. 185-202.
- Andrews, J., Briggs, A., Porter, R., Tucker, P. and Waddington, K. 1997. History of Bethlem. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Waddington, K. 1995. The Nursing Dispute at Guy's Hospital, 1879–1880. Social History of Medicine 8(2), pp. 211-230. (10.1093/shm/8.2.211)
- Waddington, K. 1994. Bastard benevolence: centralisation, voluntarism and the Sunday Fund 1873–1898. The London Journal 19(2), pp. 151-167.
Ymchwil
Research interests
- Social History of Medicine
- Environmental history
- Victorian Public Health
- Victorian urban history
- Literature, Science, and Medicine
- Historical theory and methods
Current research projects
Health and pollution regulation in the Victorian and Edwardian rural environment
This project bridges environmental history and the medical humanities to investigate health and pollution regulation in the Victorian and Edwardian rural environment. The project uses a cross-regional analysis to explore how rural communities engaged with poor environmental quality as well as the development and limits of regulation and the actors involved. I focus particularly on ideas and practices of expertise and authority, landscape and isolation, as well as notions of backwardness and agency, to investigate the physical and regulatory infrastructures put in place to address rural environmental concerns.
Drought and the rural environment
From 1884 onwards, Britain experienced a series of major droughts, which reached their peak in the ‘Long Drought’ (1890-1909). Using rural Wales as a case study, this project explores vulnerabilities to water scarcity during periods of drought to examine the material and socio-political impact of water scarcity and the resulting environmental and health problems faced in rural areas. In addressing how droughts in rural communities were physical and social phenomena that generated considerable alarm about infectious disease, the project explores how periods of water scarcity were an important determinant in improvements to rural water provision.
Industrial river pollution
Drawing on the idea that industrial nuisances ‘emerged gradually, in geographically particularlised way’ (Pontin), this project explores the materiality of industrial waste in rivers to examine how polluted water was a damaging, if inescapable by-product of local economies. From this starting point, it investigates the politics of intervention and strategies of control adopted by rural sanitary authoirites and their attempts to police river pollution. Central to this examination is the conflicts that emerged and how these conflicts provide insights into not only practices of intervention, but also into the difficulties of working across boundaries/borders and the interconnections between the rural, quasi-urban, and urban places. The project also considers the role of rural nuisance inspectors, the difficulties of tackling industrial waste, and how communities turned to rural authorities to clean-up their environment. Finally, the project considers whether any tangible environmental benefit resulted from these activities.
ScienceHumanities
to find out more about this collaborative project, visit the blog at: https://cardiffsciencehumanities.org/
Addysgu
Undergraduate
- Making of the Modern World - 20 credits (HS1105)
- History in Practice: Fury, Folly and Footnotes - 20 credits (HS1107)
- Exploring Historical Debate - 30 credits (HS1711)
- Medicine and Modern Society – 30 credits (HS1799)
- History & ICT: A Guided Study - 30 credits (HS1705)
- The Dangerous City? Urban Society & Culture 1800-1914 - 30 credits (HS1896)
- Dissertation - 30 credits (HS1801)
MA modules
- Rethinking Victorian Britain
- City and the Environment
- Dirt, Disease and Public Health
- Understanding the Social History of Medicine
- Trends in HIstorical Research
- Skills for Historical Research
Postgraduate research
I accept suitably qualified PhD students interested in all aspects of the social history of medicine and environmental history related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain as well as related fields in Victorian urban and social history.
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Education and qualifications
1992-95 History PhD, University College London/Institute of Historical Research
1991-92 MA History, University College London
1988-91 BA History, University of East Anglia
Career overview
1999 - present School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
1997-99 Research Fellow, Queen Mary & Westfield College
1995-96 Research Fellow, Wellcome Centre for History of Medicine at UCL
1994-98 Part-time Lecturer, School of History, University of East Anglia
1994-95 RHS Centenary Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research
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Current awards
- Research Leave Fellowship, Cardiff University
- Co-investigator, AHRC, ‘Bridging the Gap’, GW4 consortium network on co-production of research
- Co-investigator, ISSF Wellcome Trust, Humanities Collaborative Award [with Julie Brown, Medical Education, Cardiff]
- Co-investigator, AHSS International Visibility Fund, ScienceHumanities [with Martin Willis and Jamie Castell,English, Cardiff]
- Co-investigator, Cardiff University, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Digital Humanities Initiative Bid [with Anthony Mandal, English, Cardiff]
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Editorial Boards
- Editor, Society for the Social History of Medicine's monograph series published by Manchester University Press
- Editorial Board, Social History of Medicine
- Editorial Board, Intersections in Literature and Science monograph series, University of Wales Press
Advisory Boards
- Academic Council, Institute of Historical Research
- Advisory Board, UK Medical Heritage Library Project, JISC-Wellcome funded
- Advisory Board, ‘Our Country Lives: Nutrition, Health and Rural England’, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading
- External Advisory Director, Centre for the Study of Science and Imagination (SCIMAG), University of Westminster.
Networks/Centres (Membership)
- AHSS Digital Humanities network
- GW4 Regional Medical Humanities network
- Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre (http://cdoc.org.uk/), Cardiff and York universities
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I supervise students on a range of topics on the social history of medicine and environmental history related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain as well as related fields in Victorian urban and social history.
Among my present supervisees, topics under investigation include:
- Cholera and the role of port sanitary authorities in Victorian Wales
- Patient experiences in the asylum, 1870-1930
- Social and economic change in rural Monmouthshire