Jessica Campbell
Thesis title: The Healing Arts? An Examination of Madness, Creativity and Experience in British Asylum Culture c.1840-1914
PhD, Economic and Social History
Year of study: 4
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Contact details
- Email: Jessica.Campbell@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisor:
Background
Jessica Campbell is an ESRC funded Economic and Social History student with the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Her current research focuses on the relationship between 'madness', creativity and patient experience through a historical enquiry into the nature of arts-based psychiatric therapies in Britain since 1840.
Qualifications
MA (Hons) History
MSc by Research, History
MSc by Research, Economic and Social History
Responsibilities & affiliations
Society for the Social History of Medicine Member
Edinburgh History of Medicine Group
Economic and Social History Seminar Group
Menstruation Research Network
Undergraduate teaching
Introduction to Historiography
Social History 2.2: The Making of the Modern Body
Research summary
History of Medicine
History of Psychiatry
Social History
Cultural History
Gender Studies
Affiliated research centres
- Menstruation Research Network
Conference details
Royal College of Psychiatrists Autumn Conference 2018
McCarthy Award for History of Medicine Research 2018
Social History of Medicine Postgraduate Conference 2019
Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 4th Congress 2021
Invited speaker
'Out of Sight, Out of Mind': Tour of RCPE Moonstruck Exhibition 2019
Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Aberdeen seminar series 2021
Papers delivered
'Our Home from Home': Dingleton Hospital's Outlook
'Oh What a First Rate Doctor is Doctor Drama': Theatre, Performance and the 19th Century Asylum Stage
Campbell, J. & Davis, G., (2022) “‘A Crisis of Transition’: Menstruation and the Psychiatrisation of the Female Lifecycle in 19th-Century Edinburgh”, Open Library of Humanities 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.6350