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Mark Harrison

Mark Harrison

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.