Dr Mary Chapman BA (Hons), MA, PhD

Research Overview

Dr Chapman's research focuses on nineteenth-century literature and medicine. She is interested in how writing shaped the development of medical practice during this period, in particular the periodical press. Her work centres on women in medicine, as both practitioners and patients. Mary's PhD thesis investigated how different genres of writing influenced the formation of psychiatric theories about the female mind, and her current research examines the periodical writing of female doctors at the turn of the twentieth century.