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Professor Warwick H. Anderson, MD, PhD |
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Professor Warwick Anderson is an Honorary Professorial Fellow with the Centre for Health & Society.
He also holds an appointment as Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of History and the Centre for Values, Ethics, and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. Additionally, Professor Anderson has an affiliation with the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney. From 2003 to 2007, Professor Anderson was Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a joint appointment in the Department of the History of Science, and in the Science and Technology Studies Program and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. At Madison, he also chaired the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, and served on the steering committee of the Science and Technology Studies Program.
Professor Anderson has written more than twenty major articles in the history of international public health and tropical medicine, focusing on the Asia–Pacific region. He has published in journals ranging from the Lancet and American Journal of Public Health to the American Historical Review, American Literary History and Critical Inquiry. With Professor Gabrielle Hecht he co-edited a special issue of Social Studies of Science on post-colonial technoscience. His book, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia (Melbourne: MUP, 2002/New York: Basic Books, 2003), received the inaugural Basic Books Prize in the History of Science (2002) and shared the W. K. Hancock Award (2004), the major book prize of the Australian Historical Association.
Professor Anderson has also written extensively on contemporary US health policy and the sociology of scientific knowledge. Colonial Pathologies, a book on the history of tropical medicine and ideas of race in the colonial Philippines, was published by Duke University Press in 2006. His next major project concerns the history of investigations of kuru in the highlands of New Guinea, for which he was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation and a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.