International Health Humanities Network Membership

Senior lecturer in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature at Northumbria University.  My area of research interest is in pre-medical, pre-pharmaceutical (i.e eighteenth century) autobiographical accounts of the experience of mental dis-ease.  I am also currently developing a strand of interest in the fashionability of illness, namely the relationship between celebrity endorsement and illness, and the impact of this endorsement upon debates about stigma.