Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests - Profile

Brian Dolan
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
University of California, San Francisco


Email: dolanb@dahsm.ucsf.edu

Brian Dolan has taught a wide range of courses providing historical perspectives on: biology and evolutionary thought, environmentalism, disease classification, and doctor-patient relationships, as well as general survey courses on early-modern and modern European social history. He has researched and published numerous articles on topics in the history of science, technology and medicine including: the history of scientific publishing, illustration and teaching; the history of chemistry and scientific instrumentation; and the relations between environmental and occupational health debates. He has mainly concentrated on case studies in Britain, France, and Sweden. Most recently he has written on computer-aided diagnosis and the impact of new imaging technologies on the radiology profession in late 20th-century medical practice. Presently, he is conducting research for a book on the history of medical perceptions of the lungs and is the Principal Investigator on a project to develop a major website dedicated to the history of medical imaging technologies, concentrating on the second-half of the 20th century, in collaboration with UCSF's oral history program. He is also the Chair of the History of Science Society's Committee on Education and a member of the advisory committee for the University of California Humanities Research Institute.

Website: http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/faculty/bios/dolan_brian.aspx

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