Professor Mark Harrison

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
01865 (2)84629
mark.harrison@history.ox.ac.uk

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

Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities

Featured Publication

The Medical War

The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War (OUP 2010)

Winner of the Templer Medal.

The Medical War describes the role of medicine in the British Army during the First World War. Mark Harrison argues that medicine played a vital part in the war, helping to sustain the morale of troops and their families, and reducing the wastage of manpower. Effective medical provisions were vital to the continuation of the war in all the major theatres, for both political and operational reasons.

 

In the Media

War, Health and Medicine: The medical lessons of World War I

May 2015

Risk and Security in the Age of Pandemics

July 2014

Current DPhil Students

Damien Bérubé

DPhil Student

Michael Collins

DPhil Student

Federica Costantino

DPhil Student

Zhou (Joe) Fang

DPhil Candidate

Joseph Guido

DPhil Student

Patrick (Pak Hei) Hao

DPhil Student

Kimberley Nicholson

DPhil Student

Michael T. Roberts

DPhil Student

Amy Tibble

DPhil Student

Rozen Whitworth

DPhil Student

Teaching

I would like to hear from potential DPhil students in any area of my research interests

I currently teach:

Masters:

  • Methods and Themes in the History of Medicine
  • Disease, Medicine and Colonialism in South Asia
  • Medicine and Modern Warfare
     

Prelims

FHS

 

Medicine, Empire and Improvement, 1720-1820

Research Centres

Publications

Period Modern
Region British Isles & Ireland Europe
Specialism Environmental History History of Science, Medicine & Technology War & Military History