Professor Keir Waddington
Professor of History (Study Leave 2022/3)
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am presently head of History in the School, and chair of the Board of Studies.
My research focuses on medical and environmental history, 1800 to the present.
My publications in this area have explored the role of landscape in shaping rural public health, the history of responses to the threat of diseased meat, how the laboratory is represented in Gothic literature, the relationships between medicine and charity, and the history of hospitals and asylums. My present research has three strands: the first explores health and pollution in the Victorian and Edwardian rural environment; the second considers the role of topography in shaping public health provision. The final strand is an analysis of methods of collaboration between the humanities and the sciences both now and historically.
The latter is one of the key activities of the ScienceHumanities Initiative, a major research project which I lead with Professor Martin Willis (English literature) and Dr James Castell (English Literature). More information on the ScienceHumanities Initiative can be found on its website (https://cardiffsciencehumanities.org).
My teaching expertise is in the social history of medicine and urban history, and more broadly in nineteenth-century British and European history. My central teaching focus, however, emerges from my research on the historical relationships between medicine and society. I have taught this widely, to both undergraduate and postgraduate students and have supervised MA and PhD research in this area.
In addition, I have had the opportunity to influence the research and teaching of the social history of medicine internationally through cross-University initiatives, external examining, and a range of international lectures, seminars and public activities.
I would welcome inquiries from potential research students interested in studying the social history of medicine and science and environmental history; and queries from public groups or media outlets interested in my research and scholarship.
For further information on my present research projects and publications please click the relevant tab above.
Publication
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.
Research
My research focuses on the study of the social history of medicine and environmental history. My first monograph, History of Bethlem(1997), resulted from a collaborative project with four other academics to demystify Bedlam and explores its history from its foundation to the present.
My second monograph, Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898 (2000) investigated the dynamics of Victorian hospital fundraising and the nature of London charity, while my fourth monograph The bovine scourge: neat, tuberculosis and public health, 1850-1914 started my current research focus on Victorian and Edwardian public health.
I have also published An introduction to the social history of medicine: Europe since 1500 aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates interested in the social history of medicine.
My present research has two key directions: the first bridges environmental history and the medical humanities to investigate health and pollution 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, community responses, 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.
The second examines methods of collaboration between the humanities and the sciences, conceived theoretically, politically, and practically. This is undertaken as part of the ScienceHumanities Initiative which I co-lead with Professor Martin Willis, an internationally recognized expert of literature, science and medicine at Cardiff, and Dr James Castell, romanticist and animal studies expert, also at Cardiff. Together we lead a number of projects aimed at understanding and reinvigorating current methodologies of collaboration, with more recent work focusing on Covid futures. As part of this we work in partnership with Duke University's Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Cultural Theory, led by Professor Robert Mitchell, and we host a ScienceHumanities Summer School for international participants (each May). The ScienceHumanities initiative also works in partnership with Fiction meets Science at Bremen University. Our most recent publication is a report Two ways of telling this story: Best practice in interdisciplinary collaboration.
To find out more about this collaborative project, visit the blog at: https://cardiffsciencehumanities.org/
I have led research projects related to all of my areas of interest with the support of funding from the AHRC, The Wellcome Trust, ESRC, and from Cardiff University.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Making of the Modern World - 20 credits
- History in Practice - 20 credits
- Modern Britain - 20 credits
- Projecting the Past - 20 credits
- World full of Gods - 20 credits
- Exploring Historical Debate - 30 credits
- Approaches to History - 30 credits
- The Dangerous City? Urban Society & Culture 1800-1914 - 30 credits
- Dissertation - 30 credits (HS1801)
Postgraduate research
I accept suitably qualified PhD students interested in all aspects of the social history of medicine, environmental history, and social history related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain as well as related fields in Victorian urban and social history.
Biography
I joined the School of History and Archaeology as a Research Fellow in September 1999, and since then have worked in a range of roles in the School from Director of Postgraduates to Director of Research and Engagement and more recently as Director of Teaching and Learning.
Before taking up the post at Cardiff, I held posts at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine working with Roy Porter on the History of Bethlem and followed by a research fellowship at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and dentistry researching the history of medical education and contributing to the work of the Centre for Medical and Dental Education. I have also worked previously at the University of East Anglia.
I undertook my doctoral work at University College London and held a fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research.
Honours and awards
Current awards
- Co-Investigator, Wellcome Trust Small Grant in the Humanities and Social Sciences [with Martin Willis and James Castell, Cardiff]
Previous awards
- Co-investigator, Cardiff University Incoming Visiting Fellow award [with Martin Willis and James Castell, Cardiff]
- Cardiff Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, rural mortality 1870-19140
- Co-investigator, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (Cardiff), Internationalization Fund, ScienceHumanities II, [with Martin Willis and James Castell, English, Cardiff]
- Co-investigator, AHRC, ‘Bridging the Gap’ GW4 consortium network [with Bath, Bristol, and Exeter universities) on co-production of research
- Co-investigator, ISSF Wellcome Trust, Medical Humanities Collaborative Award [with Julie Brown, Medical Education, Cardiff]
- Co-investigator. College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (Cardiff), International Visibility Fund, Science Humanities, [with Martin Willis and James Castell, English, Cardiff]
Professional memberships
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
- Advisory Board, ‘Building a Healthier City’, Bath Record Office (Wellcome funded project)
- External Academic Advisor, Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences of Health Medicine and Technology, University of Liverpool
- Advisory Board, ‘‘From “A Penny in the Pound” to “Free at the Point of Delivery”, Gwent Archives
- Academic Council, Institute of Historical Research
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
Supervisions
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