Faculty Postholders
Professor Mark Harrison
B.Sc., M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.Soc.
Professor of the History of Medicine, Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Research Interests
Mark Harrison has published widely on the history of disease and medicine, especially in relation to the history of war and imperialism from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. He is currently working on the history of medicine and British imperial expansion, c.1700-1850, the history of medicine in the First World War, and on the relationship between disease and commerce.
Supervision Interests
Dr Harrison is prepared to supervise students with interests that lie in the areas of military and colonial medicine, or more generally in the history of disease, from c.1800 onwards.
Selected Publications:
- Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine, 1859-1914. (Cambridge, 1994) 324pp.
- 'The British Army and the Problem of Venereal Disease in France and Egypt during the First World War', Medical History. Vol 39 (1995) pp. 133-158
- 'Medicine and the Management of Modern Warfare', History of Science. Vol 34 (1996) pp. 379-410
- Climates and constitutions: Health, race, environment and British Imperialism in India, 1600-1850. (Oxford, 1999) 263pp.
- (ed.) Medicine and Modern Warfare . (Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1999) 286pp.
- (ed.) Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India . (Hyderabad, 2001) 408pp.
- (ed.) Imperialism: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies . (London, 2001) 353, 369, 428pp.
- (ed.) Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India . (Hyderabad, 2001) 1-36, 37-87pp.
- Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War. (Oxford, 2004) 320pp.
- Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day. (Cambridge, 2004) 270pp.
- Fractured States: Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India 1800-1947. (Hyderabad, 2005) 264pp.
- 'Science and the British Empire', Isis. Vol 96 (2005) pp. 56-63
- 'Disease, Diplomacy, and International Commerce: The Origins of International Sanitary Regulation in the Nineteenth Century', Journal of Global History. Vol 1 (2) (2006) pp. 197-217
Future Publications:
- 'Networks of Knowledge: Science and Medicine in Early Colonial India' in The Oxford Companion to the History of the British Empire: India. (Oxford)
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