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Warwick Anderson

Robert Turell Professor of Medical History, Population Health, and History of Science, Chair, Department of Medical History & Bioethics

Office: 1440 Medical Science Center
1300 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706-1532
Phone: 608-262-4195
Fax: 608-262-2327
Email: whanderson@med.wisc.edu
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Special interests and recent research:

History of tropical medicine and international health; medical history and anthropology; biomedical sciences and racial thought; disease ecology.

Recent publications:

  • "The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics." In: Nature in the Global South: Environmental projects in South and Southeast Asia. Eds. Paul Greenough and Anna L. Tsing, 29-46. Durham and London: Duke University Press; 2003
  • The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press; 2002; and New York: Basic Books, 2003. [Winner of the inaugural Basic Prize for the best first book manuscript in the history of science, technology or medicine, 2001.]
  • "Going Through the Motions: American Hygiene and Colonial 'Mimicry.'" American Literary History. 2002; 14:686-719.
  • Special Issue of Journal: Hecht G., Anderson W. "Postcolonial Technoscience." Social Studies of Science, December 2002.
  • The posession of kuru: medical science and biocolonial exchange." Comparative Studies in Society and History. 2000; 713-44.