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
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.
Recent publications
The Last Great Plague of Colonial India By Natasha Sarkar. 240pp. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024.
Journal article
Harrison M., (2026), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 36, 460 - 462
Supplying Relief: Civil Medical Assistance during the Korean War, 1950–3
Journal article
Lee D. and Harrison M., (2026), Social History of Medicine, 39, 117 - 137
Supplying Relief: Civil Medical Assistance during the Korean War, 1950-3.
Journal article
Lee D. and Harrison M., (2026), Social history of medicine : the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 39, 117 - 137
The Problem (and the Value) of Radical Moral Disagreement
Journal article
Lyreskog D. et al, (2025), Wellcome Open Research, 10, 495 - 495