Forceps, obstetrical, Simpson, steel and ebony, by Philip Harris and Co. of Birmingham, late 19th century. © Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images
Sexual Wounding in Science & Medicine
This strand of the project explores the history, politics, and phenomenology of sexual violence from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Lead researcher: Joanna Bourke
Traumatic Institutions
Here, we investigate factors that have contributed to cultures of violence and harm in psychiatric spaces from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Lead researcher: Louise Hide
Here, we investigate factors that have contributed to cultures of violence and harm in psychiatric spaces from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Lead researcher: Louise Hide
Pain & the Emotions
In this stream we examine how people have interpreted and communicated their experiences of painful encounters from childbirth to sexual violence.
Lead researcher: Joanna Bourke
In this stream we examine how people have interpreted and communicated their experiences of painful encounters from childbirth to sexual violence.
Lead researcher: Joanna Bourke
