This research strand seeks to examine the ways in which British authorities and penal institutions utilised the concept of ‘refusal’ to examine, construct, and intervene in the physical health of the British population between 1916 and 1939. With a focus on two different carceral contexts – the imprisonment of conscientious objectors (COs) in the First…
Author: catherinemcox
Throw Away the Key
Exhibition exploring the impact of prisons on health at University of Warwick’s Modern Records Centre
Management of Health and Disease, 1850–1950
Margaret Charleroy
The physician was responsible for determining the maximum physical stress each inmate could safely endure …
Prison Doctors in the Medical Profession in England, 1970–1990
Nicholas Duvall
The relationship between prison doctors and their NHS colleagues was crucial to delivering prison healthcare …
Political Prisoners, Medicine and Health, 1850–2000
William Murphy
The intersection of health and medical care with ‘modern’ political imprisonment in England and Ireland …
