Participant Info

First Name
Agnes
Last Name
Arnold-Forster
Affiliation
University of Roehampton
Website URL
www.agnesarnold-forster.com
Keywords
history of medicine, history of surgery, cultural history, modern British history, gender history, history of women
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About Me

I am a medical and cultural historian of modern Britain. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton, working on the Wellcome Trust funded project, ‘Surgery & Emotion’, which explores the affective landscape of surgery from c.1800 to the present day.

 

I received my PhD from King’s College London in 2017. My thesis was entitled ‘A Riddle of the Sphinx: Cancer in Britain, 1792-1914’. My doctoral research used cancer as a lens through which to reconsider medical identity, therapeutic change, and the intellectual life of death in the long nineteenth century.

Recent Publications

A Pathology of Progress? Locating the Historiography of Cancer

 

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
United Kingdom, United States, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
7, 8, 9
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Medicine, Science, Women