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  1. Ambition, ‘failure’ and the laboratory: Birmingham as a centre of twentieth-century British scientific psychiatry.Rebecca Wynter - 2021 - British Journal for the History of Science 54 (1):19-40.
    This article will reveal how local scientific determination and ambition, in the face of rejection by funders, navigated a path to success and to influence in national policy and international medicine. It will demonstrate that Birmingham, England's ‘second city’, was the key centre for cutting-edge biological psychiatry in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. The ambitions of Frederick Mott – doyen of biochemistry, neuropathology and neuropsychiatry, until now celebrated as a London figure – to revolutionize psychiatric treatment through science, chimed (...)
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