History of Science, Medicine and Technology Research Group (HSMT-Ed)

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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 group 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.

HSMT-Ed encourages exchange between academics across the humanities/science. Its work has been funded by the AHRC, Carnegie Trust, Leverhulme Trust, and Wellcome Trust. A number of projects by members of the group reflect this attention to cross-disciplinary collaboration:

• Mathematical Humanities: Antiquarian Roots of the Enlightenment University – funded by the Carnegie Trust
• Modelling the Construction of the Water Supply of Constantinople – funded by the Leverhulme Trust
• The Abortion Act (1967): A Biography – funded by the AHRC This research group organises a seminar series about the history of science, medicine and technology.

It also has a seminar series in the history of medicine, in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

HSMT-Ed combines Edinburgh’s remarkable history and unique resources with world-leading research in the fields of medicine, science and technology. Geographically, members span the globe from East to West, with a focus on Europe. Thematically, members’ expertise includes: the history of sexuality and the body from the Middle Ages to modern times, the history of modern psychiatry both in the East and in the West, the history of epidemics and natural disasters and related emotional responses, the history of distributed cognition, the history and philosophy of biology, medieval to modern pharmacology and medicine, the history of public health and administration, veterans’ health during WWII, popular and learned healing practices from Anglo-Saxon times to the Renaissance, the history of astrology and astronomy, the Scientific Revolution, Newtonianism and the Enlightenment, Renaissance to modern mathematical culture, British 18th- and 19th-century medical professions, collecting and life writing, and late Antique and early Byzantine engineering.

The membership’s wide range of specialisms is unique in Scotland and provides the basis for lively and mutually beneficial exchange within and beyond the academy.

The group is always looking for more members and participants!

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University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL