welcome
Thanks for visiting my website. I am Professor of Health History at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. As a historian of medicine, I am particularly interested in controversial medical ideas and how debates about medical knowledge get resolved. Trust me, it’s nowhere near as dull as it sounds. Ultimately, much of what makes our lives happy or miserable boils down to whether we and our loved ones are healthy or ill, so it is important to understand what goes into our conceptions of health and disease. I think the best way to do this is to look to history.
recent work
Recently, there have been numerous stories in the mainstream media and in social media about the mental health problems suffered by PhD students. I’ve been intrigued by the stories partly…
This blog is a shortened form of my BBC Radio 3 ‘Free thinking’ talk. In the archives of the American Psychiatric Association, is an unfinished manuscript called ‘The Magic Years: The…
In a former life, I was a careers advisor, among many other things. For about eight years, on and off, I provided career advice to high school drop outs, ex-cons, plumbers with…
Books i have written
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