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Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease
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Members

 

Core staff of the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease

Dr Emily Webster, Co-Director (History and Philosophy of Health and Medicine, Department of Philosophy)

Professor Matthew Daniel Eddy, Co-Director (History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy)

Professor Andreas-Holger Maehle, Founder and Former Director, (History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Department of Philosophy)

Dr Sare Aricanli, (Department of History)

Professor Andy Byford  (School of Modern Languages and Cultures)

Emmy Ostberg, Research Assistant, (PhD Student, Department of Philosophy)

 

Associate staff

CHMD's activities benefit from the input of staff in other departments of Durham University:

Professor Peter Atkins, Professor in the Department of Geography (History of Nutrition, History of Tuberculosis)

Dr Stefano Cracolici, Reader in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Medieval and Renaissance Medicine)

Dr Siobhan Hearne, School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Dr Yarí Pérez Marín, Associate Professor / Director of Hispanic Studies

Professor Charlotte Roberts, Professor in the Department of Archaeology (Palaeopathology, History of Disease)

Dr Ruben Verwaal, History Department

Dr Tom Rossetter, Career Development Fellow, Department of Philosophy

Affiliated Postgraduate Students

Isaiah Silvers, Department of History

Emma Parker, Department of History

Emmy Ostberg, Department of Philosophy

External members

The CHMD also benefits from expertise of members external to Durham University.

Dr Lutz D H Sauerteig, M.A. (Munich) Dr. phil. (Berlin), Newcastle University, Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities (History of Medicine)

Dr Joseph Gough, M.A. (Cambridge), D. Phil (Sussex), BA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy (University of Oxford)

Dr Katherine Furman, M.A., D. Phil (London School of Economics), Lecturer (University of Liverpool)

 

Former PhD students

Dr Aleksandra Traykova (2018)

Dr Tinne Claes (2018)

Dr Cheryl Lancaster (2018), Teaching Fellow, Durham University; IASH Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh

Dr Ursula Mulcahy, PhD (2019)

Dr John Shepherd, PhD (2024)