Dorothy Porter, PhD
Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
School of Medicine

Dorothy Dolan's (nee Porter) research interests are in the history of public health, social medicine and the formation of the nation state since the eighteenth century. She has also published on the history of the experience of health and illness by patients and healers in the context of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment.

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She is currently researching the ways patients manage Parkinson’s disease through creative expression, and recently published her collection of essays Health Citizenship, which examined how a new heuristic for understanding chronic diseases emerged with radical health activism that interrogated the complex interaction of biology with the political, economic, social, and cultural relations of the twenty and twenty-first centuries.

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• social medicine
• history of public health

Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
Parkinson DiseaseCreativityPersonalityHumansBrain

• Reconfiguring the Parkinson's Personality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.
  Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la medecine 2016 Porter D
• Health Citizenship: Essays on Social Medicine and Bio-medical Politics
  Health Citizenship: Essays on Social Medicine and Bio-medical Politics 2012 Dorothy Porter
• History of Science
  "Darwinian Archeology of Disease: Genomic Variants and the Eugenic Debate" 2012 Dorothy Porter
• Western Humanities Review
  Health Rights at the Crossroads: Women, New Sciece and Institutional Violence. 2012 Galen Joseph and Dorothy Porter (eds)
• Doctors, the state, and the ethics of political medical practice.
  The virtual mentor : VM 2007 Porter D
• Health, Civilisation and the State: a History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times
  Health, Civilisation and the State: a History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times 2005 Dorothy Porter