John Pickstone
John Victor Pickstone (born May 29, 1944 in Burnley , † February 12, 2014 ) was a British historian of science (medical historian).
Pickstone studied natural sciences and specifically physiology at Cambridge University (Fitzwilliam College) and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. After graduating, he studied history of science at University College London with a master’s degree in 1969, was at the University of Minnesota from 1971 to 1973 and received his doctorate in 1974 from Chelsea College of Science and Technology at the University of London with a dissertation on physiology in 19th century France. Century and especially Henri Dutrochet and his work on osmosis. He then went to the University of Manchester (UMIST), the history of science department of which was headed by Donald Cardwell at the time . It dealt with the history of the hospitals of the Manche region Term, in 1977 lecturer and later senior lecturer. In 1985 he moved to Victoria University of Manchester , where he founded the Center for the History of Science and Technology (CHSTM) and became its director. This also included the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and the National Archive for the History of Computing. He remained a director until 2002 when he became a Wellcome Research Professor.
In the history of medicine, in addition to the topics already mentioned, he dealt with the public health system (e.g. psychiatry), medical technology, the history of fevers and cancer in Great Britain and alternative medicine such as medical botany.
In his book Ways of Knowing , he took a holistic view of the history of science, technology and medicine.
In 2009 he founded the one week Manchester Histories Festival on the history of the Manchester region in the broadest sense.
The John Pickstone Prize of the British Society for the History of Science is named in his honor.
Fonts
- Medicine and Industrial Society: a history of hospital development in Manchester and its region, 1752-1946, Manchester University Press 1985
- Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicin, University of Chicago Press 2001
- Working Knowledges before and after circa 1800, Isis, Volume 98, 2007, pp. 489-516
- with David Edgerton: Science, Technology and Medicine in Britain, 1750–2000: Modern Science in National and International Context, Cambridge History of Science, Volume 8, Cambridge UP 2008
- Editor with Peter J. Bowler: The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences, Cambridge History of Science, Volume 6, Cambridge UP 2008
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pickstone, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pickstone, John Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burnley |
| DATE OF DEATH | 12th of February 2014 |