Sally Shuttleworth

Professor Sally Shuttleworth is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and works on the inter-relations of medicine, science and culture. Her books include The Mind of the Child (2010) and Anxious Times (2019). She recently ran two large research projects, Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives (ERC) and Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries (AHRC). She is currently writing a book on travel for health.

English Health Colonies on the Riviera, 1860-1930 examines nineteenth-century cultures of health-seeking, and the creation of self-styled English ‘colonies’ in resorts on the French and Italian Rivieras. Drawing on personal letters and diaries, medical texts and literary works, it explores the intersecting medical and literary cultures of the resorts, and the lives of English invalids living in medical exile, from Robert Louis Stevenson and Aubrey Beardsley to Katherine Mansfield.