Charles Webster, FBA, is a historian and retired academic specialising in the history of medicine and science. He was

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in the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the

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from 1972 to 1988 (when he was also a fellow of

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), and a

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, from 1988 to 2004. Webster was elected a

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in 1982."Dr Charles Webster"
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Publications

* ''Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning'' (Cambridge:

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, 1972). * ''From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic and the Making of Modern Science'' (Cambridge:

, 1982). * ''Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service before 1957'' (London:

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, 1988). * ''Government and Health Care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979'' (London:

, 1996). * ''The Great Instauration'', 2nd edn. (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002). * ''The National Health Service: A Political History'', 2nd edn. (Oxford:

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, 2002). * ''Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time'' (New Haven:

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, 2008).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Webster, Charles Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of the University of Oxford Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy British medical historians