Hannah has taught both medics and
sociologists at the University of Warwick since 2000, employing various
representations of health, illness and suffering including written (memoire,
letters, reportage, fiction, clinical notes, empirical research) and spoken
forms (evidence from clinicians, patients and former patients, in various
languages, and sometimes mediated by trained interpreters). She has worked on
the core medical school curriculum and special study modules and has
collaborated with students to publish books of their own sociological work,
both written and photographic.
Building on observations by the late Meg
Stacey (the first female professor at the University of Warwick) on medical
sociology’s lack of attention to war as a public health problem Hannah
co-edited (with Gillian Hundt) a collection entitled ‘Global Perspectives on
War, Gender and Health’ (2010, Avebury). ‘Medical Sociology: An introduction’
(2009, Sage) seeks to interpret sociological criticism of medicine and insights
into the experience of illness for medical students.
