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The Centre is pleased to announce that John Christie will now be joining the Centre as an Associate Member.

John R. R. Christie, spent much of his career (1973-2006) in the Division of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, teaching history of science, medicine and technology, and additional courses in the departments of History, Philosophy and English. He is now a member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, and in 2010 was a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin. His early research was on the socio-politiical, institutional and intellectual history of science and medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment. Latterly he has returned to Enlightenment studies, working on the place of science and medicine in English Enlightened Dissent (Joseph Priestley, John Jebb et.al.), on medico-chemical theories of animal heat in C18th. Scotland, and on what happens to the Scottish medico-chemical curriculum in the Atlantic world, as it is developed and altered in late colonial and revolutionary America.

John recently hosted a very successful History of Medicine Research Seminar, 'Agonism and Emulation: Medical Student Cultures in C18th. Edinburgh' and is an active member of the Centre community. The Centre is delighted to continue working with John and looks forward to future collaborations.