Dr. John Warner

Biography

John Harley Warner, a historian, focuses on the transnational history of medicine and science. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 from Harvard University in History of Science and subsequently became a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London from 1984 to 1986. Warner joined the Yale faculty in 1986 and holds the Avalon Professorship and Chair of the Section of History of Medicine within the School of Medicine, with a fully split faculty appointment in the Department of History. He also serves as a core faculty member of Yale University’s Program in the History of Medicine and Science. His research interests encompass cultural and social history of medicine in the United States from the early 19th century to the present, particularly focusing on the history of medical education, professional identity, clinical practice, and visual cultures of medicine. Warner's current projects include a book titled 'Quest for Authenticity in Modern Medicine,' which examines the anxieties regarding marginalization and loss during the late 19th century emergence of reductionist, laboratory-based scientific medicine. He is also working on studies titled 'Bedside Stories: Clinical Narrative Grounding Modern Medicine' and 'Death of James Jackson, Jr.: Birth of the American Clinic.'

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