Waltraud Ernst
{{Short description|German medical historian (born 1955)}}
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Waltraud Ernst (born 1955) is a German professor of the history of medicine at Oxford Brookes University.{{cite web|url=https://www.brookes.ac.uk/hpc/staff-and-students/academic-staff/?uid=p0075261&op=full|title=Academic staff - Oxford Brookes University|website=brookes.ac.uk|accessdate=11 August 2018}} She is a specialist in the history of psychiatry.
She attended the University of Konstanz and obtained her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1987 for a dissertation on psychiatry and mental illness in South Asia, c. 1780 – 1858.
Selected publications
- Race, Science and Medicine, 1700–1960. Routledge, New York, 1999. (Edited with Bernard Harris) {{ISBN|0415181526}}
- Plural Medicine, Tradition and modernity, 1800–2000. Routledge, London, 2002. (Editor){{cite journal|title=Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Plural medicine, tradition and modernity, 1800–2000, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 2002, pp. xiii, 253, £60.00 (hardback 0-415-23122-1)|first=Derek A.|last=Dow|journal=Medical History|volume=48|issue=1|pages=134–136|doi=10.1017/S0025727300007213|year=2004|doi-access=free}} {{ISBN|0415231221}}
- Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and cultural histories of norms and normativity. Routledge, London, 2006. {{ISBN|9780415368438}}
- Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58. Anthem Press, London, 2010. (Anthem South Asian Studies) {{ISBN|978-1843318682}}
- Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry: The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925 – 1940. Anthem Press, London, 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.anthempress.com/colonialism-and-transnational-psychiatry|title=Anthem Press - Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry|website=Anthempress.com|accessdate=14 August 2018}}{{cite journal|url=https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-abstract/27/4/832/2337909|title=Waltraud Ernst, Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry: The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925-1940|first=C.|last=Harding|date=4 July 2014|journal=Social History of Medicine|volume=27|issue=4|pages=832–833|accessdate=14 August 2018|doi=10.1093/shm/hku051}} {{ISBN|978 0 85728 019 0}}
- Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750–2015. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2016. (Editor){{cite journal|url=https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-abstract/30/4/835/3828255|title=Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750–2015|first=Elizabeth|last=Roberts-Pedersen|date=15 May 2017|journal=Social History of Medicine|volume=30|issue=4|pages=835–837|accessdate=14 August 2018|doi=10.1093/shm/hkx042|doi-access=free}} {{ISBN|9780719097690}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=https://oxfordbrookes.academia.edu/WaltraudErnst|title=Waltraud Ernst : Oxford Brookes University|website=Oxfordbrookes.academia.edu|accessdate=14 August 2018}}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Waltraud_Ernst|title=Waltraud Ernst : Oxford Brookes University, Oxford : Department of History, Philosophy and Religion|website=ResearchGate.net|accessdate=14 August 2018}}
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Category:Academics of Oxford Brookes University
Category:German women historians
Category:German medical historians
Category:University of Konstanz alumni
Category:Alumni of SOAS University of London
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