Dr Claire Jones
Secretary
Claire Jones is Secretary of the Society. She is a medical historian of Britain since 1750 and Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent. Her research largely centres on the relationship between medicine, health and commerce and the ways in which this relationship affects professional and lay social structures, consumption and material culture. She has explored this relationship in a number of funded projects and publications. Her books include Cultures of Oral Health: Practices, Discourses and Theory (with Barry Gibson. Routledge, 2022); The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce Before the Sexual Revolution (MUP, 2020; paperback 2024); Rethinking Modern Protheses in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820-1939 (MUP, 2017); and The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870-1914 (Pickering & Chatto, 2013). She is currently working on an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship titled ‘Buzzers for Bedwetters: Incontinence and the Urinary Body in Britain, 1870-1970’ in partnership with Bladder and Bowel UK and ERIC, The Children’s Bowel and Bladder Charity.
Having worked at a number of medical museums, Claire is also an experienced museum professional, and has worked with a range of different audiences, including families, school groups and mental health service users on projects related to mental health, sexual health, and surgery.
She welcomes enquiries on any aspect of British medicine and health from the mid-18th century to the present day, and welcomes any opportunity to engage non-academic audiences in medical history.