Virginia Berridge, FRHistS, HonFRCP, FAcSS (born 1946) is a British academic historian and public health expert.[1][2]
Virginia Berridge | |
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.jpg) Berridge in October 2004 | |
| Born | 1946 (age 77–78) |
| Nationality | British |
Life
editBerridge has a first degree and a PhD in history, both from the University of London, and is a Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.[3][4]
She worked in the Addiction Research Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry from 1974 to 1979 and at the Economic and Social Research Council from 1986–1987.[3] From 1979 to 88 she was at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.[3][5]
Selected works
edit- Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England (1987)
- AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981–1994 (1996)
- Marketing health: Smoking and the discourse of public health, 1945–2000 (2007)
- Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs (2014)[6]
- Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (2016)
- The Internationalisation of Tobacco Control, 1950-2010 (2016)
- Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum (2018)
References
edit- ^ "Professor Virginia Berridge". FEAD - Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ "Virginia Berridge". London School of Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ a b c Virginia Berridge; Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2006). Public health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and rise?. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-106-6. OL 11612224M. Wikidata Q29581737.
- ^ [1] The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. About us: Virginia Berridge
- ^ Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780199604982.
- ^ Flanders, Judith (16 December 2013). "Demons by Virginia Berridge, review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
External links
edit- Official website
- "Virginia Berridge BA PhD FRHistS Hon FFPH Hon FRCP AcSS". London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Archived from the original on 26 September 2011.
- Virginia Berridge on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
