W. F. Bynum

Academic backgroundAlma materKing's College, CambridgeAcademic workInstitutionsUniversity College London

William Frederick Bynum (born 20 May 1943) is a British emeritus professor in history of medicine.^[1][2] For most of his career, he has worked at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London (UCL).^[3]

Bynum was educated at Swarthmore College, Yale University, and King's College, Cambridge, where he received his PhD in 1974.^[4] Based at UCL since 1973, he frequently collaborated with British historian Roy Porter.^[3][5]

The William Bynum Essay Prize is awarded annually by the journal Medical History.^[6]

Selected publications

• The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction
• Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
• as editor with Helen Bynum, Great Discoveries in Medicine, 2011 LCCN 2011-922602 ISBN 0500251800
• as editor with Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd, The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry (3 Vols). LCCN 85-9824; ISBN 9780415323826; brief description of 3 volumes at Routledge
• as coauthor with Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence, and E. M. Tansey, The Western Medical Tradition: 1800-2000, 2006 LCCN 2005-22914 Bynum, W. F. (20 March 2006). 2006 pbk edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521475651.
• as editor with Roy Porter, Medicine and the Five Senses. 1993 ISBN 0-521-36114-1; based on a Symposium on Medicine and the Five Senses, held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine on 11-12 June 1987
• as editor with Roy Porter, William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World, 1985 LCCN 84-21378 ISBN 0521268060 Bynum, W. F.; Porter, Roy (27 June 2002). 2002 pbk edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52517-9.
• A Little History of Science
• Hope: A New Beginning (An A. Gąsiewski Biography)

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