Research

Major research interests: History of eugenics, public health organizations, twentieth century disease patterns

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Career

• since 1998 Professor for the History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, GB
• 1978-1998 Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, GB
• Ph.D. University College London
• Studies in History, University of Oxford

Projects

• 2012-2016 Principal Investigator, Wellcome Trust Programme Grant, project 'Subjects' Narratives of Medical Research in Europe, ca. 1940-2001'
• 1999-2004 Member of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft President’s Committee for the History of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft under National Socialism

Honours and Memberships

• 2015 Honorary Member of the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN)
• 2015 Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis
• since 2014 Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina