Peter Adamson - Health: A History

Peter Adamson

Michael Stanley-Baker

Peter E. Pormann

James Allen

Helen King

Peter Adamson

Richard Scott Nokes

Guido Giglioni

Anita Guerrini

Gideon Manning

Tom Broman

Ludmilla Jordanova

Jim Hopkins

Glenn Adamson

Elselijn Kingma

Glenn Adamson is the twin brother of Peter Adamson. He is also a curator, writer, and historian who works across the fields of design, craft, and contemporary art. Currently Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, Adamson has been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Head of Research at the V&A; and Curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. His publications include Fewer Better Things: The Importance of Objects Today (2018); Art in the Making (2016, co-authored with Julia Bryan Wilson); Invention of Craft (2013); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011); The Craft Reader (2010); and Thinking Through Craft (2007).

Peter Adamson is the twin brother of Glenn Adamson. He is also Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians Universitt in Munich. With G. Fay Edwards, he is the co-editor of another volume in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series, entitled Animals: The History of a Concept (2018), and the author of the book series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, published by Oxford University Press. Two volumes collecting his papers on late ancient philosophy and philosophy in the Islamic world appeared recently with the Variorum Series published by Ashgate.

James Allen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and was formerly Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates About the Nature of Evidence (2001) and the co-editor of Essays in Memory of Michael Frede (special issue of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2011). He has published articles about ancient skepticism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Plato, Aristotle and the relations between ancient medicine and philosophy spanning topics in ethics, logic, and natural philosophy.

Tom Broman is Emeritus Professor of History of Science and History of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 17501820 (1996) and co-editor of Science and Civil Society (2002). He has authored articles that analyze the constitution of scientific and medical expertise, the early history of scientific journals, and the history of the public sphere in the eighteenth century. He is currently writing a comprehensive survey of science in the Enlightenment.

Guido Giglioni is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Macerata, Italy. His research is focused on the interplay of life and imagination in the early modern period, on which he has written and edited several contributions. He has published two books, on Jan Baptiste van Helmont (2000) and Francis Bacon (2011).

Anita Guerrini is Horning Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History at Oregon State University. She has published widely on the history of animals, medicine, food, and the environment. Her books include Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights (2003) and The Courtiers Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIVs Paris (2015). Current research projects concern skeletons as scientific and historical objects (for which she recently won a grant from the National Science Foundation) and the role of history in present-day ecological restoration. She blogs at anitaguerrini.com/anatomia-animalia.

Jim Hopkins is Reader Emeritus in Philosophy at Kings College and Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit of the Research Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at University College London. His main work has been on psychoanalysis, consciousness, Wittgenstein, and interpretation.

Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor of History and Visual Culture and Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture at Durham University. Her books include Lamarck (1985), Sexual Visions (1989), History in Practice (2000, 2006, with the third edition near completion), The Look of the Past (2012), and Physicians and their Images (2018). Her research interests include portraiture and the cultures of science and medicine since 1600.