Dr Louise Hill Curth 

Reader in Health and Programme Leader BSc in Health 

Education, Health and Social Care 

Email:

Louise.Curth@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 826444 

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Biography

Louise is an early modern medical historian with a BSc, MA and PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. She is best known for her work on early modern human and veterinary history. Louise teaches a range of social sciences and historical modules at Winchester and medical humanities at the Medical School at the University of Southampton. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Peninsula Medical School and the Universities of Exeter and Warwick. 

Publications

Books written:

The care of brute beasts: a social and cultural history of veterinary medicine in early modern England (Brill, 2009).

English Almanacs, Astrology & Popular Medicine, 1550 – 1700 (MUP, 2007).

Books edited:

From Physick to Pharmacology: Five Hundred Years of British Drug Retailing (Ashgate, 2006)

New Perspectives in Veterinary History  Winchester University Press Series Editor (from 2010)

Contributions to books:

‘The most noble of creatures’: health care for horses in early modern England’ in P. Edwards and E. Graham (ed.) The Renaissance Horse (Brill, forthcoming)

'Pre-veterinary’ veterinary medicine in England’, in J. Schaeffer (ed.) Tierheilkundige in Geschichte und Greensward (Verlag Schwabe, 2010).

'Almanacs and their role in the dissemination of medical information in early modern England’ in  A. Messerli (ed.) Zahl-Text-Bild im Volkskalende Tagesbund Kalender (Verlag Schwabe, 2010)

‘History of Health and Illness’ in J. Naidoo and J. Wills (eds) Health Studies: an introduction, second edition (Palgrave, 2008), 47 – 72

‘A Remedy for his Beast: animal health care in early modern Europe’, Intersections: representations of animals, Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, 6 (2007), 360 – 81

‘Introduction: Perspectives on the evolution of the retailing of pharmaceuticals’ in L. Hill Curth (ed.) From Physick to Pharmacology: five hundred years of drug retailing (Ashgate, 2006), 1 – 11

'Medical Advertising in the popular press: almanacs and the growth of proprietary medicines’ in L. Hill Curth (ed.) From Physick to Pharmacology, 29 – 48

‘Erotic Writing in Seventeenth Century England’, Encyclopaedia of Erotic Literature (Routledge, 2006)

‘Making new spaces of public food consumption: Victorian catering and the Aerated Bread Company’, with G. Shaw and A. Alexander in J. Benson and L. Ugolini (eds) The Cultures of Selling: Perspectives on Consumption and Society since 1700 (Ashgate, 2005)

'Health, Strength and Happiness: Medicinal constructions of wine and beer in early modern England', with T. Cassidy in A. Smith (ed.) Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth Century England (Boydell and Brewer, 2004), 143 – 59

'Almanacs as Medical Mediators' in C. Usborne and W. de Blecourt (eds) Mediating Medicine: Cultural approaches to illness and treatment in early modern and modern England (Palgrave, 2004), 56 – 70

Articles:

‘Medical advertising in the popular press’, Pharmacy in History, Vol. 50, No 1 (2008), 3 – 16

‘Astrological medicine and the popular press in early modern England’, Culture and Cosmos Vol. 9, No 1 (Summer, 2005), 73 – 94

‘The Medical Content of English Almanacs’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 60, No 1 (July 2005), 1 – 28

'Promoting retail innovation' with A. Alexander and G. Shaw, Environment and Planning A (2005, Vol. 37), 805 – 21

'The Medicinal Uses of Wine in Early Modern England', The Social History of Drugs and Alcohol  (Autumn, Vol. 18, 2004), 35 – 50

' Selling the Supermarket: the Americanisation of Food Retailing in Britain: 1945 – 1960’, with G. Shaw and A. Alexander, Business History (October 2004), 568 – 82

‘Animals, Almanacs and Astrology: Seventeenth Century Animal Health Care in England’, Veterinary History 12 (November 2003), 33 – 54

‘Lessons from the past: Preventative Medicine in early modern England’, Journal of Medical Humanities 29 (2003), 1 – 6

'The Care of the Brute Beast: Animals and the Seventeenth-Century Medical Marketplace', Social History of Medicine, 15 (2002), 375 – 92

'A New Archive for the History of Retailing: The Somerfield Archive', with G. Shaw and A. Alexander, Business Archives 84 (November, 2002), 29 – 37

'The Commercialisation of Medicine in the Popular Press: English Almanacs 1640 - 1700', The Seventeenth Century 17 (Spring, 2002), 48 – 69

‘Robert Gell’ in The New Dictionary of National Biography (2002)

'The Birth of the British Supermarket: 1945 – 1960', with G. Shaw, History Today (November, 2002)

‘Martin Frobisher’ in The Naval History Encyclopaedia (2001)

‘English Almanacs and Animal Health Care in the Seventeenth Century’, Society and Animals 8 (2000), 71 – 86

Research Interests

• Veterinary history
• English almanacs
• Proprietary medicines
• Medical advertising
• Popular medical literature and print culture
• History of preventative medicine
• Astrological medicine
   

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Funding awards and fellowships:

• Leverhulme Trust
• College of Physicians of Philadelphia
• Bibliographical Society
• ESRC Bursary for Training
• The Royal Society
   

Memberships:

• World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine
• English Veterinary History SocietyMedical Humanities Association
• Key Contact for Higher Education Academy (Health Sciences)
• Former Book Review Editor for The Social History of Medicine