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Virginia Berridge
Berridge in October 2004
Born1946 (age 77–78)
NationalityBritish

Virginia Berridge, FRHistS, HonFRCP, FAcSS (born 1946) is a British academic historian and public health expert.[1][2]

Life[edit]

Berridge has a first degree and a PhD in history, both from the University of London, and is a Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.[3] [4]

She worked in the Addiction Research Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry from 1974 to 1979 and at the Economic and Social Research Council from 1986–1987.[3] From 1979 to 88 she was at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.[3][5]

Selected works[edit]

  • Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England (1987)
  • AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981–1994 (1996)
  • Marketing health: Smoking and the discourse of public health, 1945–2000 (2007)
  • Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs (2014) [6]
  • Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (2016)
  • The Internationalisation of Tobacco Control, 1950-2010 (2016)
  • Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum (2018)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Professor Virginia Berridge". FEAD - Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Virginia Berridge". London School of Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Virginia Berridge; Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2006). Public health in the 1980s and 1990s: Decline and rise?. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-106-6. OL 11612224M. Wikidata Q29581737.
  4. ^ [1] The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. About us: Virginia Berridge
  5. ^ Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780199604982.
  6. ^ Flanders, Judith (16 December 2013). "Demons by Virginia Berridge, review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 August 2018.

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