History of Science, Medicine and Technology Research Group

The History of Science, Medicine and Technology Research Group (HSMT-Ed) is an interdisciplinary research group based in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.

The History of Science, Medicine and Technology Research Group (HSMT-Ed) brings together academics, doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers from across the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science who share an interest in the history of medicine, science and technology from antiquity to the present. Work has been funded by the AHRC, Carnegie Trust, Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust, and ERC. Recent projects include:

  • 'Race, Empire, and the Edinburgh Medical School' - conference at IASH (Dr Simon Buck and Dr Ian Stewart)
  • 'Brokering the Enlightenment: Scotland and the World' - conference at IASH (Dr Philippe Bernhard Schmid)
  • Mathematical Humanities: Antiquarian Roots of the Enlightenment University – funded by the Carnegie Trust (Dr Richard Oosterhoff)
  • Modelling the Construction of the Water Supply of Constantinople – funded by the Leverhulme Trust (Prof. Jim Crow)
  • The Abortion Act (1967): A Biography – funded by the AHRC (Dr Gayle Davis)

We're always looking for more members and participants! Please contact one of the group Co-ordinators.

Co-ordinators

This research group organises a seminar series, please see below. 

HCA HSMTG Research Page

  • Dr Michael Barany
  • Dr Lawrence Dritsas
  • Dr Lukas Engelmann
  • Dr Miguel Garcia-Sancho
  • Professor Steven Sturdy
  • Dr Niki Vermeulen


  • Professor Sam Cohn
  • Professor John Henry
 

  • Lewis Ashman – 'Newtonianism in Enlightenment Scotland'
  • Axelle Champion – 'Child and adolescent psychiatry in France and Scotland, c.1870-1914’
  • Edward Fellows – 'Natural theology in Early Modern Britain'
  • Jane O'Neill – 'Youth, sexuality and courtship in Scotland, 1945-80'
  • Barbara Haward – 'Telegrapher's cramp: Tthe first modern office disease'
  • Michal Adam Palacz – 'The Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh (1941-1949): A case study in the transnational history of Polish wartime migration to Great Britain'
  • Martha McGill – 'Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland'
  • Indigo Reeve – 'Morbidity and mortality of the medieval and post-medieval populations of London and Scotland in relation to their environment'
  • René Winkler – 'Robert Sibbald and the Origins of Museums in Scotland'
  • Masayuki Fukushima - 'Acute Diseases in the Corpus Hippocraticum and after'

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