Dr Cat Beck

My article 'Patronage and insanity: tolerance, reputation and mental disorder in the British navy 1740-1820' in #HistoricalResearch has been selected as Editor's Choice, so you can now read/download it for free! doi.org/10.1093/hisres… @ihr_history #MaritimeHistory #HistPsych

#EAHMH interested in some 18thC madness at sea? Come to panel Melancholy as Crisis at 10:00 (Harriet Holters house, room 150) I'll be sharing findings from my @MSCActions project, looking at shades of 'unreason' and criminal responsibility in Danish-Norwegian naval courts!

@rebeccawynter @ErinSpinney @thehistorygirl1 @trickcyclistraf There are stats for the mid/later 19thC in the parliamentary papers, called 'Statistical Reports on the Health of the Navy'!

Any ideas @ErinSpinney @Cat_S_Beck @thehistorygirl1 @trickcyclistraf??

🛟 ⚓️Calling #NavalHist and #MilHist People🛩️🪂 It's Weekend Working Question Time! Has anyone compiled the Health Statistics from the 19thc or 20thc #RoyalNavy? Has anyone does this for the #BritishArmy or #RAF? #Twitterstorians #HistMed #HistSTM

#NavalHist query for wknd working: I read a blog/article about a mentally unwell e19thc(?) sailor, who either set light to something on board or people were worried about him using a candle or lantern. Was this by you, @Cat_S_Beck?? If anyone else recognise this, please say 🙏

@rebeccawynter Ooh I have definitely presented a case like this before but from the late 18thC and about a ship's surgeon... and not published (yet! he appears briefly in a chapter in a book that will be published VERY SOON 👀 watch this space 👀)

If you're at #EAHMH23 tomorrrow, be sure to check out this fab session chaired by friend of the project @Cat_S_Beck: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/3836/s… It features a presentation by our very own Riikka Miettinen on madness in #EarlyModern Sweden. #Twitterstorians

A great key note this afternoon by @HildeBras at the Nordic Medical History Congress, Helsinki. The importance of an intergrated approach!

Coming up this morning at #ESSHC2023! A smashing session on 'Experiencing Madness & Disability in #EarlyModern Europe' featuring Riikka Miettinen + fab friends of the project @EyiceMari @t_raisahama @JuthHe @Cat_S_Beck. esshc.socialhistory.org/conference/pro… #DisHist

@MadelineEWhite starts off #bshs2022 session 2C Botanical Gardens, Natural History, and Empire examining Oxford’s Du Bois herbarium. Botany and colonialism going hand in hand …

Here at #BSHS2022 today in Belfast, presenting on the impact of the ocean environment on conceptions of mental disorder among lage 18thC seafarers. 11.30am Room D!

I also spoke yesterday at #IMHA, Porto. Finally another outing for 'Shaped by the Sea, @SamHistSci @erikajones225, talking about the effect of the ocean environment on medicine, tech and science (or madness in my case)! #OceanHist #EnvHist #HistPsych #HistMed

Presenting virtually at #SSHM2022 in Swansea this morning (9am Faraday C) (enjoying hearing the gulls via zoom as well as the other excellent papers in this panel!)

@PlymPrivateer And @PlymPrivateer, being the absolute legend she is, has bought me VITAL SUPPLIES

Beer & Lego and catching up with @Cat_S_Beck in Copenhagen

@mishaewen YES! definitely!

@Cat_S_Beck @MSCActions @uni_copenhagen It sounds amazing & I will be visiting, don’t you worry! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

NEWS 🚨 This month I started as a @MSCActions postdoc at @uni_copenhagen! For the next 2 years I'll be working on my project MADSEA looking at community responses to mental difference and distress among early modern seafarers Read more about it here: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101…

"we found that that having COVID-19 infection in patients with ADHD was associated with more severe symptoms and an increased rate of referral to hospitalization, even after accounting for variables known to increase the risk for both disorders." #ADHD #ADHDTwitter

We are looking for the newest member of the @ROHrabies team @wellcometrust : 4 year Human Geography PDRA position @EdinburghUni; multispecies research on street dogs and public health in India. Apply by the 24th Jan 22. edin.ac/3F3K6MM @GeosciencesEd @SniffThePastDog

Interested in a PhD studentship project that involves both HMS Victory and The Mary Rose? Full details can be found at cranfield.ac.uk/research/phd/h… sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/prospective-st… Deadline for application is 24 January 2022. #NMRN #PhD @CranfieldUni

Just found out 'Spaces of Enlightenment Science' (ed. Larry Stewart and Gordon McOuat) has been published! It includes a chapter from me on the imagined space of early modern scientific correspondence, but don't hold that against it... brill.com/view/title/562…