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The following individuals have been instrumental in the evolution of research and the teaching of the study of The History of Medicine at UCLA. They also are currently actively involved in their respective departments.
Name:Emily Abel, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Health Services and Women's Studies, UCLA School of Public Health.
Fields of Interest:The history of tuberculosis in Los Angeles; the role of women caregivers of the sick and elderly; aging; and the history of public health.
 

Name:Peter Baldwin, PhD
Professor Department of History
Fields of Interest:Comparative history of modern Europe, modern Germany, modern France, Scandinavia, historiography.
 

Name:Joel Tupper Braslow, M.D., Ph.D..
Associate Professor, in residence, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Fields of Interest:Therapeutics; history of psychiatric treatments.
 

Name:Soraya de Chadarevian, Ph.D.
Professor in the Department of History and the Center for Society and Genetics Ph.D. Professor in the Department of History and the Center for Society and Genetics
Fields of Interest:History of of the biomedical science with a parespecializing in human genetics,and molecular biology
 

Name:Katharine E. S. Donahue
Head, History & Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA
 

Name:Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D..
Professor, Department of Neurobiology and History
Fields of Interest:History of the Biological Sciences; History of Medicine.
 

Name:Margaret C. Jacob, Ph.D..
Professor, Department of History
Fields of Interest:The meaning and impact of the Newtonian synthesis on religion, political ideology, industrial development and cultural practices; chronic pain in children; the formation of civil society.
 

Name:Russell A. Johnson
Archivist and Rare Books Cataloger, History & Special Collections; Johns C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection; Neuroscience History Archvies, Brain Research Institute, UCLA
 

Name:Marcia L. Meldrum, Ph.D.
Lecturer/ Researcher, Department of History
Fields of Interest:Research and therapies; origins and dynamics of new scientific fields; cultural and medical history of contraception; history of clinical trials.
 

Name:Ynez V. O'Neill, Ph.D.
Professor, recalled, Department of Neurobiology
Fields of Interest:Pre-modern medicine, with reference to surgical specialties, anatomy, physiology, neuroscience and medical illustrations.
 

Name:Theodore Porter, Ph.D..
Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Affairs, Department of History
Fields of Interest:History of science; the development of statistical ideas and methods; the history of quantification; the history of the social sciences.
 

Name:Mary Terrall, Ph.D.
Associate professor, Department of History
Fields of Interest:History of science; gender and science; early modern Europe.
 

Name:Sharon J.Traweek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History Department, UCLA
Fields of Interest:She is currently interested in cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine.
 

Name:Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D..
Professor, Medical Humanities and History, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and the Department of History
Fields of Interest:Social and intellectual history of eighteenth and nineteenth century medicine and psychiatry; the history of professions and institutions.
 

Name:Cherry Dunham Williams
Archivist, the William H. Sweet, M.D., D.Sc. Collection and Special Projects Librarian
Fields of Interest:Midwifery, breastfeeding, healthcare of women, infants and children; medieval manuscripts
 

Name:M. Norton Wise, Ph.D.
Professor, History Department, UCLA
Fields of Interest:More recently Wise has been contributing to the historiographical development of “cultural history of science”, exploring the ways in which major developments in the sciences emerge from intensely local and contingent circumstances