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Andrew Cunningham is a senior research fellow
in the History of Medicine in the department of
History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge
University, following a successful tenure as acting
director of the Cambridge Wellcome Unit for
the History of Medicine.
He lectures in and has
a detailed knowledge of a wide span of medical
history and is the author of a range of medical
history books including The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse:Religion,War,Famine and Death in
Reformation Europe and the soon to be published:
The Anatomist Anatomised: An Experimental Discipline
in Enlightenment Europe.
He has edited and been advisor on many popular
historical accounts of medical lives, including
Wendy Moore’s recently acclaimed biography of
John Hunter, The Knife Man, and he has made
several contributions to medical discussions on
BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time and the history series
Man Masters Nature.
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