Waltraud Ernst (born 1955) is a German professor of the

history of medicine The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies. More than just histo ...

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. She is a specialist in the history of psychiatry. She attended the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz (german: Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's ...

and obtained her PhD from the

School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury ar ...

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) * ''Plural Medicine, Tradition and modernity, 1800–2000''. Routledge, London, 2002. (Editor) * ''Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal: Social and cultural histories of norms and normativity''. Routledge, London, 2006. * ''Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58''. Anthem Press, London, 2010. (Anthem South Asian Studies) * ''Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry: The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925 – 1940''. Anthem Press, London, 2013. * ''Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750–2015''.

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, Manchester, 2016. (Editor)

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* * Living people Academics of Oxford Brookes University German women historians 1955 births German medical historians University of Konstanz alumni Alumni of SOAS University of London {{UK-academic-bio-stub