School of Social and Political Science

Profile

John’s background lies in the medical and economic history of contemporary Africa, with complementary interests in medical anthropology, STS, demography and epidemiology. John was trained at the University of Leeds, where his PhD focussed the history of nutrition and nutritional medicine in West Africa. Until recently, he was engaged as a postdoctoral researcher on Making Clinical Sense (www.makingclinicalsense.com), a historical-ethnographic study of the technologies used medical education, based at Maastricht University.’