Professor Mark Harrison
Professor of the History of Medicine
Faculty of History | Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Co-Director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
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Professor 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.
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. One of his current interests is the global history of disease and medicine.
Research Interests
Mark Harrison works in the following areas:
Mark Harrison is involved in the following research projects:
- From Sail to Steam: Health, Medicine, and the Victorian Navy (Wellcome Trust Project Grant)
- The Challenge of Urbanization: Health and the Global City (Wellcome Trust ISSF/John Fell Fund Award)
- Invisible Crises, Neglected Histories: Malaria in Asia c.1900-present (Wellcome Trust Investigator Award)
- Oxford Martin School (Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
