Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine

Professor Mark Harrison

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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 a history of medicine and British imperial expansion, c.1700-1850.

Selected Publications

'Disease, Diplomacy and International Commerce: The Origins of International Sanitary Regulation in the Nineteenth Century', Journal of Global History, 1 (2006), 197-217.

'Science and the British Empire', Isis, 96 (2005), 56-63.

Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War (Oxford University Press, 2004).  Winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize for 2004.

Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day (Polity Press, 2004)

Biography

MA, Modern History, University of Oxford
DPhil, Modern History, University of Oxford
BSc, 1st Class Hons, Social Science (History major), University of Bradford

Membership of professional societies

American Association for the History of Medicine
British Society for the History of Science
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Society for the Social History of Medicine

Joint editor of New Perspectives on South Asian History, Orient Longman.  This series of volumes specializes in the history of science and medicine, and environmental history.

Member of editorial advisory board, Medizinhistorisches Journal, 2004-present.

Member of the editorial board of the journal Social History of Medicine, 1997-2005.

Assistant Editor, New Dictionary of National Biography.

Membership of funding bodies

Chair of Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee, 2007-present.

External examiner on the MA in History of Medicine at Birkbeck College London, 2007-present.

Member of Beit Fund board, University of Oxford

Member of Modern History Faculty Board, 2004-6.

Chair, Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, 2004-5.

Convenor, MPhil/MSc in History of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of Oxford, 2004-present.

Member of Wellcome Trust History of Medicine Funding Committee, 2002-6. 

External examiner on the MA in History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University, 2001-6.

External examiner on the Intercalated BSc in the History of Medicine, University College, London, 1999-2002.

Examiner of doctoral theses at the following institutions: University of Bristol, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, Liverpool University, University of Manchester, University of Oxford, Royal Holloway College London, Salford University, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Central Lancashire, University of Warwick.

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