Thesis title:
How was the English wet nurse conceptualised and understood in the context of venereal transmission in the eighteenth century?
Research Area
Publications
Carr, Abigail, ''Technology run riot': The Impact of Birth Intervention on Women's Birth Experiences in 1970s Britain,' Pons Aelius (E-Journal), 15, no. 1 (2023), pp. 111-127.
Carr, Abigail, ''A Park in which beauty and pure air could be united': South Shields' Marine Park and Late Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of Health and Wellness,' Garden History, 51, no. 2 - forthcoming Winter 2024.
Other Research Interests
- History of Medicine
- Women's History
- Environmental History
Memberships
- Society for the Social History of Medicine - from 2024
- Reproductive Health Histories (CHSTM) - from 2024
- Gardens Trust - Sept. 2023 - Sept. 2024
