Professor Warwick H. Anderson
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Room 837 Brennan-MacCallum Building The University of Sydney Sydney, NSW 2006 |
Background
Warwick H. Anderson, MD, PhD, is a Professorial Fellow at the CHS and 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, he has an affiliation with the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney. From 2003 to 2007, Warwick 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.
Research Interests
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.
Publications
Books
Anderson , W. 2006, Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines, Duke University Press, Durham NC.
Anderson, W. 2002, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne (and 2005); Basic Books, New York (2003); Duke University Press, Durham NC (forthcoming 2006).
Special Issue of Journal:
Hecht G. & Anderson, W. 2002, ‘Postcolonial Technoscience’, Social Studies of Science, vol. 32, no. 5–6.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters (past 10 years only):
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Anderson, W. 2004, ‘Natural Histories of Infectious Disease: Ecological vision in twentieth-century biomedical science’, Osiris, vol. 19, pp. 39–61.
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Anderson, W. 2004, ‘Postcolonial Histories of Medicine’, in John Harley Warner & Frank Huisman (eds), Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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Anderson, W. 2003, ‘The Natures of Culture: Environment and race in the colonial tropics’, in Paul Greenough & Anna L. Tsing (eds), Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 29–46.
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Anderson, W. 2003, ‘How’s the Empire?’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Science, vol. 58, pp. 459–65.
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Anderson , W. 2002, ‘Postcolonial Technoscience’, Social Studies of Science, vol. 32, pp. 643–58.
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Anderson, W. 2002, ‘Going through the Motions: American hygiene and colonial ‘mimicry’,’ American Literary History, vol. 14, pp. 686–719.
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Anderson, W. 2000, ‘The Possession of Kuru: Medical science and biocolonial exchange’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 42, pp. 713–44.
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Anderson, W. 2000, ‘The ‘Third-World’ Body’, in Roger Cooter & John Pickstone (eds), Medicine in the Twentieth Century, Harwood Academic, Amsterdam, pp. 235–46.
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Anderson , W. 1999, ‘The Perception of Disease, and Its Meanings’, Lancet2000, vol. 354, SIV49. Expanded version reprinted as ‘Disease and Its Meanings’, Health and History, vol. 1, pp. 245–9.
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Anderson, W. 1998, ‘Where Is the Postcolonial history of Medicine?’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 72, pp. 522–30.
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Anderson, W. 1998, ‘Disease, Culture and History’, Health and History, vol. 1, pp. 30–4.
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Anderson , W. 1998, ‘Leprosy and Citizenship’, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, vol. 6, pp. 707–30.
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Anderson, W. 1997, ‘Race, Geography and Nation: Remapping ‘tropical’ Australia, 1890–1920’, Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 11, pp. 457–68. Reprinted in Nicolaas Rupke (ed.) 2000, ‘Medical Geography in Historical Perspective’, Medical History, Suppl. 20, pp. 146–61.
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Anderson, W. 1997, ‘The Trespass Speaks: White masculinity and colonial breakdown,’ American Historical Review, vol. 102, pp. 1343–70.
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Anderson , W. 1996, ‘Disease, Race and Empire,’ Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 70, pp. 62–7.
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Anderson, W. 1996, ‘Immunities of Empire: Race, disease and the new tropical medicine’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 70, pp. 94–118.
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Anderson, W. 1995, ‘Excremental Colonialism: Public health and the poetics of pollution,’ Critical Inquiry, vol. 21, pp. 640–69. Reprinted in Contagion, Alison Bashford & Claire Hooker (eds) 2001, Routledge, London, pp. 76–105.
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Anderson, W. 1994, ‘'Where Every Prospect Pleases and Only Man Is Vile': Laboratory medicine as colonial discourse’, in Vicente Rafael (ed.), Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures, Anvil Publications, Manila and Temple University Press, Philadelphia (1995), pp. 83–112.