Dr Michael Bresalier

Research Highlights

1. Bresalier, M. (2020). A Christmas pandemic like no other? They thought that in 1918

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57872

   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/18/a-christmas-pandemic-like-no-other-they-thought-that-in-1918-influenza-covid
2. Bresalier, M. (2020). Covid-19 and the 1918 ‘Spanish ‘flu’: differences give us a measure of hope

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54611

   http://www.historyandpolicy.org/opinion-articles/articles/covid-19-and-the-1918-spanish-flu-differences-give-us-a-measure-of-hope
3. Woods, A., Bresalier, M., Cassidy, A., & Dentinger, R. (2018). Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories (1st ed ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.

   https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa37948

   https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3
4. Bresalier, M. (2018). From healthy cows to healthy humans: Integrated approaches to world hunger, c. 1930-1965. Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine (pp. 119-160). Palgrave

   https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34439

   https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-64337-3
5. Bresalier, M., Cassidy, A., & Woods, A. (2020). One health in history. In Jakob Zinsstag, Esther Schelling, Lisa Crump, (Ed.), One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches (pp. 1-14). Cabi International

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27778

   https://www.cabi.org/wp-content/uploads/Chap1-9781789242577.pdf

All Research

• A study to reconstruct the experiences of a cohort of doctors who migrated from South Asia to Wales between 1948 and 1990. It aims to explore broader questions about the nature of medical migration into Wales and how this affected the provision and use of medical care in Wales. (current)

  MPhil

  Other supervisor: Prof Martin Johnes

  Other supervisor: Dr Michael Bresalier

• Reconstructing British Approaches to the BCG Vaccine. (current)

  MA

  Other supervisor: Dr Christoph Laucht

  Other supervisor: Dr Michael Bresalier

• FY-012 Introduction to Being Human

  This module will focus on introducing what it is to be human from a broad humanities and social science perspective. It will offer the opportunity to engage with key ideas, theory and literature within these disciplines. It will therefore prepare students for further academic work in the humanities and social sciences and initiate the development of critical thinking and creative abilities.

• HI-M22 Dissertation

  Students produce a dissertation of up to 20,000 words on a historical topic, chosen in conjunction with their supervisor. This represents the culmination of the History MAs, and constitutes Part Two of the programme.

• HIH275 Medicine and the Modern World, 1800 to the Present

  This course surveys the making of modern medicine from the French Revolution to the Therapeutic Revolution and beyond. It traces the creation in nineteenth century Europe and Britain of hospitals, laboratories, and public health systems, of new medical professionals working in them, of new understandings of health and disease, of the role of medicine in building modern states and empires, and fighting modern wars. Turning to the twentieth century, it examines the development of national health care systems, their role in the creation of modern welfare states, their connections to the growth of pharmaceutical innovations and industries, and challenges to their authority. Throughout, we explore how and with what consequences "Western" medicine has been globalised through colonial systems in the nineteenth century and through international systems (i.e., the World Health Organization) in the twentieth century. We will use the broad historical perspectives developed in this course to critically reflect on the crucial role of medicine in the Covid-19 pandemic. Overall, students will acquire critical historical tools for understanding and analysing how medicine has become crucial to the modern world.

• HIH3300 History Dissertation

  The History dissertation is a free-standing, 40-credit module that runs across both semesters of Level Three. Candidates conduct research upon a subject of their choice, devised in consultation with a member of staff teaching for the degrees in History, and concerning a topic that falls within staff research and teaching interests.

• HIH3346 The Hungry World: Food, Famine and the End of Empire, 1880-1945

  Hunger has fundamentally shaped human history. But only in the twentieth century did it emerge as a medical, scientific, and public health problem to be studied and controlled in every corner of the globe. This module explores how hunger became a galvanising and polarising force in the contemporary world. We will address this question in seminars that focus on key themes and debates in the historiography ¿ particularly with how hunger has been tied to matters of health, development, colonialism, geopolitics, war, socio-economic and gender inequality, human rights, security, and the global food system. Seminars will be based on analysing a range of primary sources, including those produced by governments, medical and scientific authorities, the popular press and mass media, philanthropies and international agencies. We will use these documents to elucidate the many experts, organisations, and governments who converged on hunger, the changing methods and means they used to define and combat it, and those who embodied and experienced it. The first part traces how hunger was framed and approached as a major political, economic and humanitarian issue in Britain and its empire, while the second part examines its connections to interwar food crises and international relations, its role in the First and Second World Wars, and its place in the creation of the United Nations, decolonization and the Cold War, and its emergence as a global humanitarian problem.

• Wellcome Research Fellow, Department of History, King’s College London

  September 2013 - September 2015

• Wellcome Research Fellow, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College London

  September 2012 - September 2012

• Research Associate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester

  September 2010 - September 2012

• Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol

  September 2007 - September 2010

• Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol

  2010 - Present