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George Behlmer

  • Professor
    Modern Britain, Social History of the Family, History of Medicine, Colonialism in Comparative Perspective
    Email: behlmer@uw.edu
    Phone: (206) 543-5747
    Office: SMI 108A
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    Office Hours: W 2:00-3:30 & By Appointment

    • Education

    Ph.D. Stanford University, 1977.

    Selected Bibliography

    "Grave Doubts: Victorian Medicine, Moral Panic, and the Signs of Death," Journal of British Studies, 42 (April 2003).
    *Gray Prize Winner.

    Friends of the Family: The English Home and its Guardians, 1850-1940. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

    "Summary Justice and Working-Class Marriage in England, 1870-1940." Law and History Review 12 (Fall 1994).
    *Surrency Prize Winner.

    "Theory and Anti-theory in Nineteenth-Century British Social History." Journal of British Studies 26 (January 1987).

    "The Gypsy Problem in Victorian England." Victorian Studies 28 (Winter 1985).

    Child Abuse and Moral Reform in England, 1870-1908. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982.
    *Winner of the Pacific Coast AHA prize for best first book

    Graduate Fields Offered