Anne Stobart

Director of programmes - Complementary Health Sciences

Department: School of Health and Social Sciences

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Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Experimental Psychology, Post Graduate Certificate of Education, Diploma in Herbal Medicine, MA Womens' Studies, Doctor of Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Medicinal Receipt Collections
  • Early Modern Domestic Medicine in South West England
  • Women Healers, Gender and Complementary Medicine
  • Sustainable Cultivation of Medicinal Trees and Shrubs

Teaching Interests

  • History of Herbal Medicine,
  • Herbal Materia Medica and Herbal Therapeutics
  • Professional Practice, Research Processes and Clinical Audit

Biography

Having an extensive background in adult education ranging from teaching mathematics and psychology to further education management, Anne qualified as a medical herbalist in 1993. Anne completed an MA in Women's Studies at Exeter University in 1997 and her dissertation focused on the acquisition of knowledge by women healers. Anne joined Middlesex University in 2000 and took on responsibility as Programme Leader for the BSc Herbal Medicine and more recently became Director of Programmes for the Complementary Health Sciences area. She continues to research into early modern domestic medicine, having completed her PhD in 2009, and is working with colleagues to develop a Herbal History Research Network. Anne has also initiated a long term Devon-based project seeking to develop sustainable cultivation of medicinal trees and shrubs in the UK.

Publications/ Research

  • 'Women Healers in Seventeenth-century England: A Study of the Acquisition and Perception of Their Medical Knowledge', unpublished M.A.thesis, University of Exeter, 1997.
  • 'Herb Collecting in England Between the World Wars', European Journal of Herbal Medicine, Vol 4 Issue 2, 1998.
  • 'Conference Report: Recipes in Early Modern Europe: The Production of Medicine, Food and Knowledge' Journal Of Health, Social and Environmental Issues, Vol 6 No 1, 2005.
  • 'Book Review: Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition: An Ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland', Social History of Medicine, Vol 18: 124, 2005
  • 'The Making of Domestic Medicine: Gender, Self-Help and Therapeutic Determination in Household Healthcare in South-West England in the Late Seventeenth Century', PhD thesis, Middlesex University, 2009.
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