Virginia Berridge
Virginia Berridge FRHistS HonFRCP FAcSS | |
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Berridge in October 2004 | |
Born | 1946 (age 71–72) |
Nationality | British |
Virginia Berridge, FRHistS, HonFRCP, FAcSS (born 1946) is a British academic historian and public health expert.[1][2]
Berridge 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]
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][4]
Selected works
- 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) [5]
- Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (2016)
References
- ↑ "Professor Virginia Berridge". FEAD - Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ↑ "Virginia Berridge". London School of Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- 1 2 3 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 , Wikidata Q29581737
- ↑ 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". Retrieved 1 August 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
External links
- Official website
- "Virginia Berridge BA PhD FRHistS Hon FFPH Hon FRCP AcSS". London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26.
- Virginia Berridge on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
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